Sam Rosenfeld

GETTING SPECIFIC. I think Max Sawicky is getting at something very important here: The task for those who have come around to oppose this war is to extrapolate wisely in order to cope with the bouquet of calamities elaborated in the article. It pretty much comes down to Iran. Will the U.S. permit Iran to […]

QUESTIONS FOR JOHN CARROLL. Greg has emailed a few good ones to the man. UPDATE: Meanwhile, Carroll tells Tom that the mistakes will be addressed in an on-air “Beat the Press” segment as well as on the show’s blog. –Sam Rosenfeld

SET YOUR BOOKMARKS. The Hammer‘s got a blog. As a signal of open intellectual engagement with the left, Delay has even breached the ideological divide to include Mickey Kaus on his blogroll… –Sam Rosenfeld

JOIN IN THE FUN. Greg has a suggestion for a contest that folks might want to get in on, though I’m worried reading one entry after another might get a bit nauseating. –Sam Rosenfeld

MORE POST SELF-PARODY — AND BETTER! Ok, scratch what I said before, Ruth Marcus has nothing on Broder. –Sam Rosenfeld

MORE HIDEOUSLY TWISTED LOGIC FROM MCCAIN ABOUT TROOP INCREASES. This has passed unnoticed, but it’s definitely worth a look. Yesterday John McCain used his questioning of Defense Secretary nominee Robert Gates at the confirmation hearing to push his politically-calculated demand that more troops be sent to Iraq. This was predictable enough, but it’s interesting to […]

POST SELF-PARODY WATCH. Dean already flagged this in the wee hours of the morning, but it’s worth emphasizing the goofiness of this Ruth Marcus column proposing a “commission made in heaven” — a Social Security reform group headed up by John McCain and Hillary Clinton. Marcus manages to explicitly avoid the pernicious conflation of Social […]

BAR THE GATES. The more I refresh my memory about defense secretary nominee and former CIA Director Robert M. Gates, the more convinced I am that no senator on the Armed Services Committee, before which Gates appears today, who votes to move this nomination to the Senate floor will honestly be able to say that […]

SHOW HORSESH*T. I feel no pity for Joe Biden. His recent comments in South Carolina joking about how his home state, Delaware, wishes it had been part of the Confederacy, are exactly the kind of crap that enables conservatives. By spouting this bunk — a word with southern origins, incidentally — Biden has undermined not […]

WILL CARVILLE ABANDON THE BUBBAS? James Carville‘s post-election tirade against Howard Dean got me to thinking about Hillary Clinton‘s 50-state presidential chances in 2008. As a Hillary person, Carville surely must be pondering ways she can amass 270 electoral votes. Presuming she starts with the same 252 electors John Kerry won, there are five routes […]