Is it possible to come up with a dumber "Obama would be leading the Democrats to a victory in the midterms if only he had sucked up even more to Republicans" argument than Clive Crook's? Well, I don't know, but some participants in this forum...
Month: September 2010
OK, maybe he was right to praise himself -- for the first time we have evidence that Richard Cohen is a very funny man. The segue from "practically, some suburban.
Shorter Ed Gillespie: "I must oppose transparency, because it violates the rights that individuals and especially corporations have under the First Amendment to have nobody disagree with them." Jeez, Ed,.
The standard caveat applies: these analyses are designed for freshmen-level composition courses. I repeat: these analyses are designed for freshmen-level composition courses. The wheel will not be reinvented here. I begin the quarter teaching excerpts from Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics and Making Comics not because all arguments...
Shorter Clive Crook: People would be perfectly happy with Obama, despite the dismal economy, if he were more like David Broder. Certainly, he cannot continue to be such a populist.
Son of a Nobel Laureate Adam Bellow continues to masterfully undermine the thesis of his own book.
Meet New York Republican nominee Carl Paladino, who has some other things besides racist emails on his cv: She was talking about her husband's affair, a subject she was ready, if not eager, to address. Since her husband, Carl, won the Republican nomination for governor...
School boards have gotten the green light from the Supreme Court to re-segregate, and so why not just abandon any pretense of caring and go back to the same "neighborhood.
Despite seeing the write-up, I have a hard time believing this actually happened. I do like the fact that Coulter has illustrated another twist to the general Republican belief that.
If we had a hipper press corps, someone would just go ahead and ask Christine O'Donnell how all those fucking magnets work.
It could be argued that Troy Tulowitzki has been one of Colorado's more effective players this September.
An obscenely busy (yet curiously unproductive) schedule has kept me from reading much non-Alaskan coverage of our weird-ass Senate race, so I don't know if Steve Kornacki's optimistic take is.