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Steady Hand at the Tiller

by Josh Marshall
10.08.08 | 11:57 pm

You’ll remember that new plan to refinance people’s mortgages that John McCain sprung on everyone in last night’s debate in a typically mavericky fashion. Well, after about twenty hours of thinking it over, it seems McCain wants to make the plan completely different.

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