Oh, Master of the Online Media! Enlighten Us! Teach Us How Intellectually Primitive We Are!

From Slate, where genius evolves...just pay attention because everyone there is smarter than you:

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the big idea: The thinking behind the news.

Lessons of the Crisis
 

"there's no point in explaining complicated matters to the American people."

"It is hard to remember a more dismal moment in American politics. The debt-ceiling crisis and the agreement that ended it point to deep dysfunction in our system. In a variety of ways, the episode portends continued short-term economic misery and long-term national decline. It's as if the United States chose at the last minute not to commit financial suicide—but only out of preference for a slower, more excruciating form of self-destruction.

President Obama is trying to push a jobs agenda. But for the federal government to spur growth or create jobs, it has to spend additional money...

[Republicans] believe that the 2009 stimulus bill, which has prevented an even worse economy over the past two years, is actually responsible for the current weakness...

are simply intellectual primitives who reject modern economics on the same basis that they reject Darwin and climate science..

We now also understand that we're not going to make meaningful investments in our economic future... for the same reason [we have] failed at sensible economic management: because the Tea Party has a veto...

At the level of political culture, we have learned some other sobering lessons: that compromise is dead and that there's no point trying to explain complicated matters to the American people..."

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Oh, Master!  Tell us more!   Tell us more, Master!!!!

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"...A Congress dominated by mindless cannibals is now feasting on a supine president" 

Responding to the dinner bell.

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