Ezra Klein

Over at CAP, Larry Korb and Brian Katulis have released a new plan for withdrawal from Iraq, what they call Strategic Redeployment. The plan itself is well presented, fairly intuitive stuff. During Bush’s tenure terror attacks have increased, Iraq has gotten worse, our allies have been bombed, and all the rest. From there, it should […]

Now, with the Bugman seeming a bit squashed, self-congratulating reformers (particularly Republicans) are happily looking towards a new era of cleanliness and transparency under DeLay’s deputy, protege, and close friend Roy Blunt. Said another way, it’s time to make my old post on DeLayism new again. As it stands, Democrats are dashing towards a bit […]

C’mon, you had to know it’d happen. Sooner or later, at least. It’s not as if Shakespeare’s Sister could keep writing impassioned posts that made you want to run for something, organizing massive coalitions that left you ready to believe in something, and running the sort of blog that made you want to do something […]

I wish people would stop saying things like this. From the description for AEI’s new book on health care: America’s health-care system is the envy of the world, but it faces serious challenges. No, no it’s not. The developed world is packed with better health care systems than ours while the developing world knows it […]

Over at Fablog, Davids’ got an enormously well-written and very well framed piece on gays in the church. Take a look.

Man, I usually agree with Oliver, but his latest post is just a 12-car smashup of wrongness. Top to bottom, it’s just got less sense than a Heritage intern after a three day bender with David Horowitz. Oliver thinks that Democrats should be out there talking up the DeLay scandal, adding their voices to the […]

Prof. Bainbridge is joining the right’s call for Bush to keep his campaign promises and nominate a judge in the mold of Thomas or Scalia (who, it should be said, were radically different molds when they were first nominated). He’s joined, today, by the Wall Street Journal, who I won’t link to out of a […]

Tom DeLay gets an Edite.

The Washington Post has a good editorial on a hugely important, and wholly undernoticed, bill currently winding its way through Congress: TODAY, THE SENATE Judiciary Committee takes up the so-called Streamlined Procedures Act, a bill that radically scales back federal review of state convictions and death sentences. Calling what this bill does “streamlining” is a […]

Well that was quick. Dreier’s out Blunt’s in. Blunt is a run-of-the-mill, DeLay-style, power amasser and corporate conservative. Speculation was that DeLay wanted Blunt, who was the whip, passed over because Blunt could too easily become permanent. Looks like he lost that one. Ah well, welcome to the new Republican party, same as the old […]