Ezra Klein

Wow. Strickland is either writing the epitaph of the extremist Republican leadership or the honorable Republicans in Congress. Check back in a few years to find out which.

Sen. Reid’s statement on Gonzales is eloquent and inspiring. It sits after the fold, and you should read it.

Matt’s a stalinist.

Sue’s post about goat singing, laughing uncontrollably, and doing so at inappropriate times is hilarious. What’s not so hilarious is when I do it. Mainly, that I seem to always do it. I don’t think I’ve attended a Yom Kippur or Rosh HaShanah service where a significant chunk of my time wasn’t spent convulsing in […]

From Today’s Papers at Slate: The Wall Street Journal does a “lessons learned” from the roughly 20 countries that have partially privatized their state pension systems. One: Don’t give workers too many choices; they’ll screw it up. Another: Going private can add lot of debt, helping to explode the economy. (See Argentina and Bolivia.)

A few days ago, I responded to a QandO post accusing the Democrats of being all opposition, no ideas. The folks over there have issued their latest missive, amending their argument to admit yes, the Dems have ideas, but they don’t have any good ones. So, sure…you’ve got ideas. But while you’re designing yet another […]

Chew on this: Timed as it was to get lost in the hullabaloo of the State of the Union address, the Tuesday night/Wednesday morning purge of the House Ethics Committee was still a pretty audacious move. It’s been known for some time that the now-outgoing Chairman of the House Ethics Committee, Rep. Joel Hefley (R) […]

You’re not going to find a better SOTU wrap-up than Shakespeare’s Sister has penned: I had the notion that I would do a thoughtful analysis of the State of the Union speech, and maybe I still will, but now, immediately afterwards, my feeling is: What’s the point? It was all just bullshit wrapped in the […]

• Quick query for the techies in attendance — do RSS feeds deliver hits? By that I mean my RSS feed refreshes itself every 30 minutes, is every site it pings notching up a hit every 30 minutes? Or is it completely ignorant of RSS aggregators and thus missing all the folks (again, like me), […]

New commentary up top. Your commentary in comments. Let’s play ball. 7:26 — Why do Dems need to have their leaders give the rebuttal? Our congressional heads have a lot of roles and talents, but oratory is not necessarily among them. Is there a reason we can’t have, say, Biden and Tim Ryan offering the […]