a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_08/019339.php"Benen/a, a href="http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/08/is-texas-a-model-for-growth.php#comments"Yglesias/a, and a href="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/texas-is-not-the-only-red-state/"Krugman/a said what needed to be said about this Douthat a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/opinion/03douthat.html?_r=1"column/a. I can't decide which aspect of the argument is worse -- the cherry picking of one "red state" or using a state in a fiscal crisis largely because it's burdened by stupid conservative initiatives as a representative "liberal" state. I think it may be the latter. We would all disagree about what "liberalism's favorite laboratory" would consist of, but I think we can all agree that it would not involve artificial limits on property taxes and supermajority requirements for tax increases.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7163938-7783749051388404642?l=lefarkins.blogspot.com'//div
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