Why it matters who benefits

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President Obama, as a practice, falsely portrays the two parties. The GOP, he maintains, are shills for big business, whereas he is the scourge of the special interests. I spend much of my time correcting these falsehoods, and today I took some heat from the Left for doing this.

Liberal blogger Ezra Klein comes after me for my critique of Matt Yglesias’s post which concludes that the GOP’s agenda is “indistinguishable from big business” — a conclusion that is clearly false. (Which party sided with big business on the stimulus?)

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