Larry Summers:"If they [Democrats] don't pass this bill in the next couple weeks it will materially increase the risk that the economy would stall out and we would have a double dip."

Isn't David Frum supposed to be one of the better right-wing thinkers? Then how come he's going on MarketPlace to make arguments like this:

Indisputable proof that I'm a liberal (courtesy of the World's Smallest Political Quiz)

Though being from a libertarian organization, the questions were a bit loaded. [h/t Barry Ritholtz]

I think people on the Left like Kevin Drum are over-analyzing what uncertainly and certainly really mean to the average GOPer.

It's 'uncertainly' when the agenda isn't GOPer and it's 'certainly' when the GOPers' get their way.

I thought people had figured that out by now. The irony of course is who in their right mind would look at any period of Republican ascendancy in the past 20 years and wax nostalgic over the level of 'certainty' flourishing back then.

Classic Krugman on the "bipartisan" debt-reduction commission:

It seemed obvious, as soon as the commission's membership was announced, that "bipartisanship" would mean what it so often does in Washington: a compromise between the center-right and the hard-right.

Follow-up Krugman Quote de Jour (this time on Soc. Sec.):

From TPM:

ABC News is reporting that sources close to Nancy Pelosi say that far from resigning from Congress, she's leaning toward staying in Congress and running the position of Minority Leader.

UPDATE: Nancy Pelosi:

I heard this on the NewsHour a while back and thought it was just about the dumbest thing I ever heard:

RUBY HOWARD, voter, Michigan: My concern is to vote for the person that I feel is the most sincere to bring our area and contribute to our country to get us back on track.

The self-imposed requirements of 'He-said-She-said' journalism are so disgusting.

For some reason WBBM in Chicago feels itself obliged to balance reports of Obama campaigning for Democrats with Sarah Palin doing the same for GOPers -- as if Palin were the only person doing this for the GOPers or, more importantly, there were some equivalence between a half-term failure from Alaska and the President of the United States.

U. of C. economist, Loukas Karabarbounis writes:

After the 24/7 adulation of 'free trade' that we've been getting from traditional media for the past 20 years, it's interesting to point out that, according to the NBC/WSJ poll from yesterday, most Americans now believe trade has cost jobs and 'hurt' the nation over all.