I'm still reading the Republicans' alternative budget (pdf), but I did want to highlight this graph from Republican Paul Ryan's Wall Street Journal op-ed on the subject, because it's pretty stupid ...

I poked fun at Paul Ryan's 100-year federal spending graph in an earlier post, but I wanted to do a follow-up on exactly where this nutty figure comes from. The same graph appears in the full ...

Pretty hard to argue with that, right? Mostly because that’s a graph and graphs don’t talk. But yeah, the data are pretty compelling too. As Klein points out, 2012 was the ninth-warmest year ...