“I Don’t Care What The Polls Say. I Don’t.”
I am sticking to my statement that Romney’s the frontrunner and that I expect him to win. But, just as it was with Trump, Perry, and Cain, Newtmentum is for real, for now: In Pennsylvania Gingrich has...
View ArticleSupercommittee Dems Tried To Compromise; Republicans Are Too Irrational
Jared Bernstein points out: The D’s on the committee went much further onto the R’s side of the field, offering plans that were to the right of Simpson-Bowles or Gang of Six in terms of balancing...
View Article“I’m Every Bit As Crazy As You Guys! Honest!”
Mitt Romney is plagued in the GOP primary by his modest record of sane, moderate governance, and his series of contradictory stances on every major issue facing the country. Here, former Romney adviser...
View ArticleConservatism As It Exists Today
Just a back story that everyone knows, here, but seems worth documenting. The Bush administration gave us Medicare Part D, No Child Left Behind, the executive’s asserted power to wiretap and to detain...
View Article“Platitudes In Lieu Of Programs”
So we’ve noted, a time or two or so, that the media in the US isn’t very good at reporting the news. Happily, we let some foreigners in here at some point, and Der Speigel is able to call a spade a...
View ArticleThe Decline And Fall Of American Conservatism, Or, “The Career Of George Will”
Scott Galupo pointed out a little while back that once upon a time, George Will was capable of engaging in rational thought. There are plenty of amazing sane quotes from three decades ago in that post;...
View ArticleThe Higher You Fly The Deeper You Go
So, Herman Cain just had too much to hide, and is “suspending” his faltering campaign. In the grandly conceived farce that is the Republican primary, the apparent beneficiary of a candidate’s implosion...
View ArticleRichard Lugar’s Lack Of Patriotism
In James Fallows’ series on the Republican Party’s assault on the democratic institutions set up by our Constitution, occasioned by the scathing indictment of a disgusted longtime Republican Hill...
View ArticleLiving Is Easy With Eyes Closed
Paul Ryan has come out with a new budget process reform plan. Budget process expert Stan Collender is nonplussed: This would be funny if it weren’t so sad in so many ways: House Budget Committee...
View ArticleAll In
When you play poker, and you’re not very good, there invariably comes a time when your chips are getting low, the blinds are getting higher, and you need to go all in with a bad hand. That seems to be...
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