Monday link dump: Seizing the high ground

• A good discussion of the Food Safety Modernization Act that will probably not make it out of the Senate anyway.
• It is time for serious people to take a serious stand in favor of responsibility and sacrifice, which means poor people are going to take it on the chin again.
• Even "serious," moderate Brookings has issues with the Bowles-Simpson plan.
• Government employees are still not overpaid.
• According to a CNN poll, everyone still hates Republicans.
• Fox Business just publishing barely edited press releases on their website, apparently.
• The latest victim of a James O'Keefe smear is, as usual, superior in every way to that smug little twit.
• Politico presents "10 crushworthy new Reps!"
• "The Post opinion section is not a place where serious thinkers work through the issues of the day; it's where professional propagandists float their newest lies, slogans, and unsubstantiated nonsense, to see if they can get them to bob into the political mainstream."

By Alex Pareene

Alex Pareene writes about politics for Salon and is the author of "The Rude Guide to Mitt." Email him at apareene@salon.com and follow him on Twitter @pareene

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