Ezra Klein

You know, there are some who accidentally fall prey to the maxim “those who don’t know their history are destined to repeat it”, and then there are those who are downright desperate to prove it true. Congressman Curt Wheldon, who just published a book alleging that Iran is hiding Osama bin-Laden, building a nuke, and […]

Blogging over at The Washington Monthly, Ezekiel Emanuel has penned one of the most woefully unconvincing critiques of single payer health care I have ever read. In two posts, (one, two), he raises these objections: • “Americans are simply never going to endorse a Canadian style single payer system.” • “There are also large differences […]

It’s quite sad that a movement to recommend a Supreme Court judge who was first appointed by Reagan and then appointed by George W. Bush strikes me as quixotic and naive. Ed Prado, the focus of the draft effort, is a Hispanic judge from Texas who’s currenty serving on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. […]

Say what you will about Dean’s recent comments (and, as you all know, I have), but wow is Jesse ever right about this.

Looks like Social Security is safe: President Bush has all but conceded his plan for private accounts for Social Security is dead, admitting privatization won’t save the federal retirement system. “You can solve the solvency issue without personal accounts,” Bush said in an interview with the Radio-Television News Directors Association. According to the article, Bush […]

So it turns out that the Bush administration has been putting pen to paper on government climate reports, letting a former oil industry lobbyist with a degree in economics and no scientific training fuzz up warnings on global warming by changing the language, excising passages, and tweaking the emphasis. So “uncertainties” became “significant and fundamental […]

Over at TPM Cafe, Josh and friends are marvelling over the country’s polarization, which has far exceeded its actual ideological polarization and mostly crowded out the center. Josh says we’re headed for a realignment, at least once Bush leaves. Well, maybe. Remember, Bush was supposed to be the realignment. All that talk about Texas bipartisanship, […]

There’s an ominous clicking inside my Powerbook. It’s in the vicinity of the trackpad, and when it begins, my computer’s usefulness ends. For the last few days I’ve been wrestling with it, using it most of the day then letting it rest after it decided to lock up. But this morning, I assume some time […]

So this calendar you speak of…what’re the royalties? And who says wonks can’t do cheesecake?

This graphic from the latest Washington Post This graphic from the latest Washington Post poll is the hardest evidence yet that Bush is in decline. Forgetting Iraq, which has traditionally had a capricious relationship with the polls, look at terrorism. So far as I know, Bush has never, ever, not in a single survey, faced […]