Ezra Klein

Mark Schmitt writes: The president’s popularity dipped into the low 40s, and they passed the energy bill anyway — what more proof do you need that the president’s poll numbers hardly matter, if you control the instutions? At least a bit more. The President won reelection but couldn’t pass privatization — what more proof do […]

I’ve been listening to the John Roberts hearings for the past half hour and I think we can safely say that he would vote to uphold Brown v. Board. Well, it’s something, right? (By the way, were I John Roberts, I’d really hate Ted Kennedy.)

By popular request:

Apparently, NRO’s Cliff May thinks LA’s blackout is an acceptable analogue for what those left in New Orleans went through: Does [Bush] even care what the people of Los Angeles are going through? Not everyone in Hollywood can just get into a Range Rover and turn on the air conditioning. Some people only have Mercedes […]

Apparently, LA’s experiencing a massive power outage. The classroom I’m in is unaffected, but the rest of the city isn’t quite so likely. Terrorism isn’t currently suspected, but coming on the heels of yesterday’s Al-Qaeda tape promising a strike against Angelenos, it’s definitely a little creepy.

CNN’s saying Mike Brown’s resigned and stressing that he wasn’t fired. Get that? He experienced a sudden, overwhelming, and totally random desire to spend more time with the horses. Bush is not admitting that his political patronage contributed to a massive disaster. I have to admit, I don’t understand the Bush administration’s peculiar resistance to […]

I have to say, I’m starting to think Matt is very wrong on this: That dynamic [nobody is loyal to Bush anymore because he’s not running for anything] will probably get very bad for Bush sometime after the 2006 elections unless the White House political team manages to settle on a favorite standard-bearer and essentially […]

As the day goes on, I don’t want to accidentally bury my “Privatize FEMA?” post from last night. If you’ve not read it yet, do so. It’s much more substantial than anything else I’m likely to write today, and I think it an important point in general.

Not that I have anything against Jason Lee, but I’m going to have to ask all readers of this blog to boycott his new show “My Name Is Earl”. Fact of it is, someone’s got to take a stand against the unholy marriage of text advertisements and speaker boxes: Personally, I’m a fan of Jason […]

I’ve got some sympathy for John Roberts. Being forced to sit in a chair and furrow his brow attentively as God knows how many senators read plodding, intermittently coherent opening statements can’t be a good way to spend your morning. It’s even lamer when each one tells you how to answer the questions of his/her […]