We designed this op-chart for yesterday’s NY Times with an overview of 15 uses of budget reconciliation since 1980. A noticeable point being that current partisan opposition to the usage of the rule is rather hypocritical.

The Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne mentioned (but didn’t show) the chart yesterday on NBC’s Meet the Press.

“For Gary Fogelson, Phil Lubliner and Soner Ön, the Brooklyn-based trio who makes up The Holster, publishing is performative. It calls attention to the act of making, even if that act is really just stapling some laser printed sheets… Armed with laptop and printer, they publish in real time, straddling the gap between intimacy and automation.”

Book Review: The Perils of ‘Contact Me’ January 8th, 2010

Op-Ed: Finally, an Authentic G.O.P & Relax, Democrats November 5th, 2009

Letters: A Time for Humility, Not Hubris, September 17th, 2009

Op-Art: Better Signs of Trouble, September 13th, 2009, Listen to Kurt Andersen, Watch it move.

Letters: A Troop Buildup in Afghanistan?, September 4th, 2009

Op-Ed: Their Own Private Guantánamo, July 23rd, 2009

Letters: BlackBerry @ Work: The Decline of Manners, June 26th, 2009

Op-Art: iPanic, June 7th, 2009

Letters: Outrage Over Torture: The Next Steps, April 21st, 2009

Letters: Israel, Gaza and Accountability, April 8th, 2009

Op-Ed: How To Surge The Taliban, March 13th, 2009

Op-Ed: A Reconciliation on Gay Marriage, February 22nd, 2009

Book Review: Troublesome Element, March 8th, 2009

Letters: In Search of Another Route to Mideast Peace, February 4th, 2009

Op-Ed: The One-State Solution, January 22nd, 2009

Op-Ed: India’s 9/11? Not Exactly, December 2nd, 2008

Letters: Are Big Deficits in Our Crystal Ball?, October 16th, 2008

Letters: Does Test Prep Have a Place in the Classroom?, June 24th, 2008

Letters: Is the Faith-Based Initiative Working?, February 4th, 2008

Letters: Race and Place: How the South Voted, November 17th, 2008

Op-Ed: Surge Protector, July 20th, 2008

Letters: The Words We Use to Talk About Race, March 3rd, 2008

Op-Ed: Carolina, Out of Its Mind, May 1st, 2008 / Tough Love, May 6th, 2008

Op-Ed: Songs of Eloquence and Experience, May 4th, 2008

Book Review: I Write in Brooklyn. Get Over It., March 2nd, 2008

Letters: Politics and Race: History Lessons, June 13th, 2008

Week In Review: Show Me the Delegate Rules and I’ll Show You the Party, February 17th, 2008

Letters: Lessons of War, Past and Present, April 5th, 2008

Op-Ed: The Office I Left Giuliani, December 17th, 2007

Book Review: The Spy in the Gray Flannel Suit, December 30th, 2007

Op-Ed: How to Try a Terrorist, November 1st, 2007

Robert Gardner at Light Industry: Friday, February 23 from 7–10pm.

Thanks for the mail Bill!