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But It Does Equal Four

by Josh Marshall
12.10.10 | 12:52 pm

One of the things I like most about Michele Bachman is her ability to reduce journalists to desperate pleading for reality. Here’s Michele Bachman explaining why deficits created by tax cuts shouldn’t be considered deficits and CNN’s John Roberts reduced to begging the case for reality.

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