Ezra Klein

If I could have one frivolous wish granted, it’d be for rock solid evidence to come out that these two are having an affair. (Photo via John Cole)

That’s what this country needs. Jimmy Carter’s son running for Senate. So much as I like Jimmy, think his presidency is vastly underrated and unfairly maligned, and am sure Jack Carter is a good guy, sticking Jimmy’s heir in the middle of Nevada for a Senate campaign doesn’t quite seem like the best of moves […]

From Henry’s review of Hacker and Pierson’s new book Off Center: So why hasn’t the Republican party been punished by voters for its radicalism? As I understand it, Hacker and Pierson’s explanation has three main components. First, information. Voters are often poorly informed about politics, and are vulnerable to “tailored disinformation,” which distorts public perceptions. […]

Now that’s principled: Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS) has issued a statement on Harriet Miers’ nomination saying, “I have said in the past that I would like a nominee with a proven track record on important issues to all Americans and whose judicial philosophy is well-formed. I am not yet confident that Ms. Miers has a […]

Liesa notices a study on religion in industrialized democracies that finds something interesting: [Paul] found that the most religious democracies exhibited substantially higher degrees of social dysfunction than societies with larger percentages of atheists and agnostics. Of the nations studied, the U.S. — which has by far the largest percentage of people who take the […]

Max Sawicky is endorsing Harriet Miers for SCOTUS. I’m inches from following him. Unknown, untested, unqualified though she may be, any situation where Bush is nominating and conservatives are scrutinizing is one where certainty is our vicious enemy. With a conservative majority in the Senate, anyone Bush nominates who’s got a hint of definition to […]

If anybody out there really loves me, the way to show it is by buying me the new, 3-volume, 1,456 page collection of every Calvin and Hobbes strip ever published. So. Awesome.

From The Corner comes one reader’s advice on how to deal with the Miers pick: make Chaka the designated driver and go eat bbq, drink beer and watch baseball all day long. After about the third beer and second order of ribs, you’ll realize that the Democrats still don’t have a plan for the future, […]

I should probably be offering some more coherent thoughts on Miers than “conservatives dislike her”, although watching their heads go “pop!” sure is fun. Poor kids. They thought electing a cipher and surrounding him with conservative ideologues and Republican wisemen would result in a sort of Robo-Republican, a candidate genial enough to take office and […]

Quick question for Hunter. When he says: A passing comment by Republican pollster Frank Luntz on the Mclaughlin Group (yes, I know; I’m a glutton for punishment) and this excellent diary by Torta converged to ring the same bell in my ears: what do Democrats stand for? It seems a common refrain, or assumption, that […]