Ezra Klein

To follow up and respond to Ezra’s previous post concerning Gannon/Guckert. Does this story have greater significance than McCllelan’s credentialing? Potentially, yes. I disagree with Ezra here. There are potentially significant issues involved which should be answered, as well as tactical opportunites to exploit here. As much as I really don’t want my first substantive […]

Q: Who are you, anyway. A: My name’s Chris Rasmussen. I’ve previously blogged here and here (all of my posts at that site have been scrubbed due to my calls for a mass suicide in the event Bush was re-elected). I’d like to thank Ezra, who I have admired for some time, for providing me […]

As I’ve alluded to a couple times, the last two weeks have been crazy/insane for me. Applications, midterms, book reviews…it was a perfect storm of deadlines. As of this morning, the craziness is over. Nonetheless, I’m going to take the weekend to chill out and conduct a Harding-esque return to normalcy. Your host here will […]

Digby says: As I sit here listening to two congressmen on Inside Politics drone on about how we must restore civility to politics (now that the GOP controls all branches of government) I’m experiencing one of those rare times when I truly understand why people become Republicans. It’s because they have political instincts and we […]

The world is apparently facing a critical shortage of exorcists. Not even kidding you. So does this make Constantine a current events film?

With Bush publicly considering a payroll tax hike, we’re starting to get “wheels come off” stories on Social Security privatization. The LA Times, for instance, has a nice one centering on conservatives furious at the president for considering tax hikes. Considering that many Republicans were simply looking for a way out of supporting the bill, […]

Been wondering what Medicaid is and what the issues around it are? Plumer’s got you covered.

MSNBC is hosting a panel discussion on Social Security, specifically the president’s new coupling of private accounts and a payroll tax raise. The panel is: • Joe Scarborough, host and former Republican Congressman; • Hugh Hewitt, conservative radio host/blogger; • Dennis Prager, conservative writer; • Rachel Maddow, host on Air America. That’s a 3 to […]

My opinion on this is the same as my reaction to finding that Reid was creating a Democratic War Room: Great, but we didn’t do that before!? For those who don’t like following links, the move is simply the DNC granting the DCCC and the DSCC access to Demzilla, the massive computer voter database. Previously, […]

Rick Perlstein e-mailed this morning to say that he too trudged through a Hewitt book for the good of his readers. Not only do I sympathize, but I’m a great believer that authorial sacrifices like reading Hugh Hewitt mandate long-lasting rewards. So go give his review the half-life it deserves, I’m sure it’ll aid his […]