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Jonathan Chait, who recently dubbed Dubya "the 9/10 president" for his failure to tighten homeland security, now calls Bush a liar and derides his tax plan as "fiscal madness." Bush pitched the tax cut as boon to the middle class, but the bulk of the cut will do them little good. Chait also notes—late, but amusingly—that Bush's feeble promise of "one million new jobs sounds eerily like the Austin Powers character Dr. Evil." … Of late, there's a certain thrill in finding one of Ryan Lizza's "Campaign Journals" in a new TNR. It's akin to the feeling you get when you notice that it's Anthony Lane's turn to write at The New Yorker—you know you're in for a good read. This week, Lizza writes on Howard Dean's Internet-based campaigning. There's more to it than those Meetup.com fund-raisers everyone wrote up last month; staffers run streaming video of Dean's appearances and can marshal a phalanx of supporters to defend him in the blogosphere. Some predicted Dean would fade after the war, but, perhaps thanks to the Internet, "the cult of Dean doesn't seem to be going away."

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