Budget

I forgot to post this last month: Ezra Klein snarking well on a Republican “budget proposal” that quite deserves it.

It's reads like what would happen if The Onion put together a budget. “Area Man Releases Proposal for 2010 Federal Spending Priorities.”

My favourite bit is this ...

That said, the GOP does understand that some voters might be looking for specificity on their health plan. So they included this graphic:
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It's like someone showed them a flowchart. Once. And only for a few seconds. And refused to explain it.

... which I happened to first encounter without benefit of the graphic itself. Click through; I assure you that the actual graphic delivers on the promise.

The Republican proposal, I note, has several variations on the graphic.