More oddly direct truth-telling from The Washington Post‘s Dana Milbank: Bush’s perplexity may have resulted from the questioners’ failure to cooperate with his chosen theme: scolding Democrats for the “political theater” — as Bush and Vice President Cheney have put it in recent days — of attempting to end the war in Iraq. “There’s been […]
Ezra Klein
Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.
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AS THE PRESS…
AS THE PRESS TURNS. It’s worth reading this Washington Post article to get a feel for how fully the press corps. is turning against Bush. The first graf is an explanation of Bush’s “only talking point,” that Democrats won’t appropriate his desired funds. That alone is remarkable: Mere months ago, the talking point would simply […]
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The Press Turns
It’s worth reading this Washington Post article to get a feel for how fully the press corps. is turning against Bush. The first graf is an explanation of Bush’s “only talking point,” that Democrats won’t appropriate his desired funds. That alone is remarkable: Mere months ago, the talking point would simply be presented as a […]
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Reading Rubin
I’ve been remiss in not linking to Bob Kuttner’s aggressive takedown of Robert Rubin in the most recent issue of The American Prospect. As Kuttner shows, Rubin’s influence as an economic wise-man in the Democratic Party is utterly unmatched, and so his decisions go virtually unquestioned, even as many of them seem heavily, and possibly […]
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What A Difference A Year Makes
Folks should check out Jonathan Singer’s interesting interview with John Kerry, which includes the newsworthy tidbit that McCain’s staff members originally approached Kerry about the VP slot. I’m a bit unimpressed with the news (for reasons detailed here), but it’s certainly a troublesome revelation for a campaign that really needed no help repelling conservatives. On […]
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MCCAIN THE PARTY…
MCCAIN THE PARTY MAN. I’m a little nonplussed about the news that John McCain‘s staff approached John Kerry‘s people about the vice-presidential slot. John Weaver, the McCain advisor who apparently made the pitch, is an interesting guy, and not one who always and only carries out his bosses wishes. Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if […]
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Bioengineering
Readers know I’m a global warming pessimist, almost completely convinced that we’ll never muster the political will nor global unity to meaningfully curb carbon emissions in time to head off the ravages of climate change, if for no other reason than global warming will harm the developing world first and most, and it’s hard to […]
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The Hand That Signs The Paper
Atrios, responding to the GOP Senators repeated willingness to give an Iraq strategy they think will fail one more chance, writes, “It’s easy to gamble with other peoples’ lives.” Sadly, yes. It reminds me of the final verses from Dylan Thomas’s The Hand That Signed the Paper: The hand that signed the treaty bred a […]
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Thanks, Hugh!
Hugh Hewitt’s ability to stay on message is really something to behold. As Dave Weigel notices while reviewing Hewitt’s slobbering hagiography of Mitt Romney, he’s even managed to turn the evangelical movement’s discomfort with Mormonism into a leftwing plot against theism. Behold a master at work: As [Hewitt] tells it, the rottenest attacks on Romney’s […]