The Republicans’ Self-Defeating War on Eyeshades

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March 22 (Bloomberg) -- What’s with the green eyeshades?

“I can’t tell you how tired I am of Republicans who aregreen-eyeshade accountants,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrichtold Newsmax TV last weekend. Representative Paul Ryan’s “newbudget road map is more vision than green-eyeshade exercise,”Larry Kudlow wrote March 15 at National Review Online, usingKudlow code to suggest that the House Budget Committee chairmanhas a political future.