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Dana Milbank has apparently been assigned to the fashion beat at the Washington Post. His column on a rally at which the Progressive Caucus outlined their budget proposal, noted that caucus Chairman Raul Grijalva was,  “wearing a tie that hung loose from his neck and ended five inches above his waistband.” He went on to tell readers that he was unimpressed with the group’s platform encouraging readers to speculate what would happen “if progressives ran the world.”

Let’s see, I suppose that we could have ten years of zero job growth, 25 million people unemployed, underemployed or out of the workforce altogether, declining real wages, millions of homeowners losing their homes, and tens of millions of homeowners underwater.