Short on sources though accurate in content, this article touches on McCain's version of the GOP's voodoo economics.

The article works to separate the facts from the BS from McCain. Since the growth in federal expenditures during the bush cabal is for military costs and homeland security, and McCain supports a belligerent military posture and probably an attack against Iran, the charade that Chait presents becomes more intensely false.

Seems to be a blanket "gotcha" piece, with little actual references or facts.

Are tax cuts good or bad? Maybe I was hoping for too much from the article but I did not come away with much new information about McCain's tax policy. Sure the author explains the difficulty with the 'new' math proposed by McCain and the fudging about whether he is really against earmarks. But as long as McCain is for tax cuts he will get traction with his argument. The bigger the tax cut, the more we will approve of it! The main point of the article seems to have been that what McCain is proposing is impossible. Is it? I don't think that was sufficiently explained and I would have liked some contast with the Democratic position.

I'm not that familiar with The New Republic, But I was pleasantly surprised to see some one questioning the consequences of the candidates ideas. This smacks of reporting. not parroting.

The story really nails McCain as a phony in the the great Republican phony tradition going back to Reagan.

This is a fair story. One point that the author omits is that cutting taxes, as McCain is advocating adds deficits to those that already exist. So, even offsetting tax cuts dollar for dollar with spending cuts -- something that McCain has been unable to articulate -- would not "balance the budget" nor would it reduce existing deficits.