Does it not seem that the GOP’s 2008 primaries are going to prove particularly chock full o’ nuts? Democrats always have the odd liberal outlier or two, but Republicans, now, have Tom Tancredo commanding an army of xenophobes while Sam Brownback promises to install Christ back on the Oval Office. And these guys may be […]
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The Strongman’s Story
Early on in Ellen Perry’s jaw-dropper of a documentary, Fall of Fujimori, the controversial former leader of Peru is seen applying his makeup, dabbing on foundation with a sponge and peering into a mirror. It’s a disarming and curious moment, made all the more incongruous by the information that has preceded it: Alberto Fujimori is […]
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You Have Got To Be Kidding Me
I thought Noam Scheiber was joking on this. Apparently not: Moderates must insist, à la Galston and Kamarck, that Democrats won’t win back the White House unless they convince voters to trust them on national security, which means making the war on terrorism not just the party’s top priority but its central preoccupation in 2008. […]
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Those Tricky Internets
The Sandwichman is right, if the good folks running SEIU’s Since Sliced Bread contest don’t get a bit savvier in a hurry, the freepers will organize, vote, and SEIU, en route to the judging, will have spent a couple months showcasing how tort reform and a full-repeal of Davis-Bacon can help the working man. As […]
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Too Important To Screw Up
How great would it be if Bush followed up on Greenspan by nominating a fully-qualified, broadly-respect candidate to chair the Fed? I’d happily trade an incompetent on the Supreme Court for a steady hand stroking the markets. And now, via Brad DeLong, The Economist has a pick: [W]e believe the best choice would be Don […]
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Stop Punting
Something odd is happening in the Supreme Court. On Tuesday, for the second time in two weeks, the Court delayed deciding whether or not to grant review in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. A federal appeals court — which included then-Judge, now Chief Justice, John Roberts — rejected a challenge to the military commissions the Bush administration […]
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The First Shall Be Last
Oh, how the winds have shifted and how ill they blow for the majority. Tom DeLay is under indictment, Bill Frist is under subpoena, Harriet Miers is under attack, and George W. Bush is under 40. “President George W. Bush’s job approval rating has fallen to a new low of 39 percent in an NBC […]
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Surveying the 2006 Landscape
Posted by Nicholas Beaudrot of Electoral Math Since Ezra will be at shul all day, I guess it makes sense for we goyim to pinch hit; though I’m wishing I wasn’t such a putz that it took me until 4pm pacific to realize that would be a good idea. Ay gevalt … … In any […]
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The Senate Steps Up
Last week’s vote in the Senate in favor of a measure banning the use of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment by any agency of the United States government was the most dramatic step Congress has taken to rein in executive power since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The amendment, put forward by Senator […]
