Ezra Klein

Judging by the size and ferocity of these protests, it looks like he just might be. Via Singer.

Is there a reason comments have been so dead the last two days? I mean, the hits are doing just fine, but you’re all keeping silent. You guys take a vow or you just feeling quiet?

Unlike some others, I don’t see much to laud in Brooks’s column this morning. From my vantage point, it’s just another trite outing in which Sensible David explains that it’s not lockstep ideological rigidity combined with top-flight institutions that has made conservatism the handsome superforce it is today, but a long process of healthy intramovement […]

Matt’s response to me in his latest Prospect column bears a read, and a reply. He’s right that we should be lauding the congressional leadership for their recent triumphs and successes. And indeed, this whiny liberal has done so, making more than a few jokes about my personal altar to Harry Reid. But he’s wrong […]

• This is the best argument in favor of a housing bubble I’ve read. You should read it too. • Why you shouldn’t trust someone named curveball. • DeLay: We gave you life, and we can take it away.

60 current and former diplomats signed a letter opposing the Bolton nomination. That made sense, what with diplomats weighing in on the appointment of a top diplomat — their occupational experience gives them a unique perspective on the position. In response, Frank Gaffney got 65 — count ’em, five more! — non-diplomats to sign a […]

The general quality of Bush’s second-term, non-Bolton/Wolfowitz appointments, is really a surprising development. Unlike Reagan, Bush hasn’t been fighting a lonely intra-administration battle for a more conciliatory, peaceable approach to foreign policy. By all accounts, the neocons believed what Bush believes — democracy promotion, sweeping vision, bellicosity, etc. And, in the eyes of Bush, conservatives, […]

About an hour ago, Sen. John Cornyn gave a speech that said: “I don’t know if there is a cause-and-effect connection but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. Certainly nothing new, but we seem to have run through a spate of courthouse violence recently that’s been on the news […]

Jesse’s got some great comments on Duncan’s confusion as to why the GOP wants to destroy the judiciary. Read them. Love them. His basic point is that if you destroy the judiciary, the country will ride with the whim of the people. Ignorant legislators profiting from backlash politics can work their obscene magic on the […]

Duncan’s got a plan: If I were running CNN, once I fired most of the people that worked there and replaced them with decent TV journalists, I’d get rid of their little daily blog show and replace it with the “Fox News Fuckup of the day.” They could just steal it from Media Matters. Then […]