"Clap for Tinkerbell Tax Cuts!"

There was stuff on the economy that I wanted to post, but I've forgotten where it is.  Oh well.

Meanwhile, Republic of T writes on Mitch McConnell and conservative/Republican tax-cut dogma.

McConnell and his fellow conservatives may believe that the Bush tax cuts cost us nothing. But there are some beliefs that do not deserve the kind of walking-on-eggshells deference we tend to afford matters of personal faith.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m not the kid of person who goes out of his way to demolish, say, a kid’s belief in Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy. However, a grown man who holds beliefs that belong in the same category Santa, the Tooth Fairy, and leprechauns — especially one who seeks to base policy on such beliefs — deserves neither deference nor kid-glove treatment.