Author: Scott Lemieux
In recent weeks, some commenters have instructed me that DADT repeal was a done deal. I never understood this, since Collins's position all along has been consistent: she'll vote for.
Jill's take on the Assange is arrest is definitive. Of course, the priority put on his arrest is almost certainly political. But that doesn't make the charges invalid on their.
Nobody possibly could have predicted that getting Susan Collins's "support" for DADT would involve procedural compromises that would allow the explicit repeal opponents in her conference to kill the bill. .
George Will has introduced the latest effort to claim that, by definition, only liberal judges can be enagaged in judicial activism. This latest gloss on the more accurate "judgifying I.
Shorter Verbatim Robert Stacy "Emmett Till had it coming" McCain: "The problem here is not some theoretical abstraction about the nature of consent. No, the much larger problem apparent in this.
Needless to say, I don't have much to add to Krugman and Rortybomb. The deal, once you accept that the cave-in on extending the Bush tax cuts was inevitable, was.
I'm not the kind of blogger to get furious about things like Obama's tax cut cave-in (unnecessary and wrong on the merits though it certainly is) very often because my.
Without getting into the debate we've been having in comments about his merits as a columnist, I note that Frank Rich's latest much-praised column makes no sense: THOSE desperate to.