Ezra Klein

In some ways, it’s hard to blame Frist for turning batshit crazy in the past few months. Unlike most senators hoping to occupy the Oval Office, the good doctor from Tennessee is majority leader, which means every overpowered, under-medicated constituency in the country is tugging at his pant leg to make him actualize their agenda […]

Sorry Kos, but this is a wholly useless distillation of the Democratic party: Democrats are the party for people who work for a living We’re also the party of puppies, smiles, things that light up, people who do good deeds, parents who comfort their children, and those cool brown things that you wrap around a […]

Watching David Brooks and John Tierney both race to write the same column extolling the virtues of obesity and mocking liberals for denying themselves cheeseburgers was pretty funny. Did no one warn David that Tierney got there first? Does David not even read his conservative competitor? Seems that the Times token righties need to coordinate […]

Something glitched in my Gmail yesterday and nothing sent between in the morning and midnight got to me. Everything seems to be working now, s if you sent me anything between those times, do me a favor and resend.

Last night, the girlfriend and I watched Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, the 1967 flick about two progressive parents trying to accept their daughter’s interracial marriage. The film’s a bit dated, though the central struggle of liberals trying to live by their ideals while their guts scream otherwise is still pretty compelling. But midway through, […]

So Trent Lott and Ben Nelson are pushing a compromise that would bring four of the blocked nominees to the floor, kill three of them, and end the Republican effort to kill the filibuster. But according to the new WaPo/ABC News poll, only 26% support “changing the Senate’s rules to make it easier for Republicans […]

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Jonah sez: I really do hate tit-for-tat congressional politics. But if the Democrats really do tear down Bolton on what is, ultimately, rinky-dink nonsense then Republicans will be obliged to make the management style and office demeanor of all future Democratic nominees an issue. This will make Republicans hypocrites in the sense they think what […]

Having spent the last week of my life drowning in health care statistics and system comparisons (the products of which you can read here), I want to make a few wrap-up points on the whole thing. First, I see why Clintons plan failed. In an effort to avoid the political baggage of single-player, he tried […]

Sam says what I wanted to say.