Ezra Klein did a piece yesterday offering the conventional deficit dove position on deficits and debt. Here’s a commentary on it.

The Left finally makes an effort to debunk the historic “successes” of the Supply Side Economic theory.

Economist Jamie Galbraith, along with Dean Baker and friends, are to the deficit hawks and their scare mongering what the skeptical and ultimately correct McClatchy reporters were to Dick Cheney’s fabrications about Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction and links to al Qaeda. We’re listening to the wrong “experts,” again.

The SEC accuses Goldman Sachs of fraud in a civil suit. An audit of Lehman Brothers reveals it used a shady accounting practice to conceal $50 billion in debts. An investigation of Wa-Mu shows it was rife with fraud, including fabricated loan documents. Clearly, these bankers can’t stop themselves from engaging in deceit to make money. And the “free market” has failed to moderate their reckless gambling. Strict regulation is crucial to prevent them from crashing the world economy again.

For those who have never read Ezra Klein’s blog, it’s a lot like the Food Network: There’s some explanation, some light-hearted banter, and that’s it–or so it may seem.

Ezra Klein has an interesting post — a “sad commentary” he says, noting that the recently signed health reform bill had to resort to an mechanism largely independent of Congress to help control costs in Medicare. But there’s nothing sad or unusual about this.

The last thing we need is another public religion.

Gleen Greenwald has written up yet another damning critique of Democrats’ dishonest attempts to claim public support for a public option while doing everything they can to kill it.

It is reassuring to learn that the President is both listening to serious policy advisers while taking advantage of experienced, successful political advisers to get those policies enacted. So they must be succeeding, right?

Igor Volsky posted a chart predicting some outcomes for the Senate Health Care reform. Ezra Klein endorsed it. I capture these predictions so we can look back and see if they were correct.