Matt Bai. Bai is a sucker for Villager conventional wisdom, so his preoccupations vary. But one consistent theme in his work is a belief in the principled anti-government stance of the American population completely unsupported by any evidence.
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Yeah, not much of that argument remains standing. Might be time for Fish's 12th book about how he's the only person in history to have discovered that people disagree about.
Shorter Ross Douthat: It's truly inexplicable that many Democrats oppose a deficit "compromise" made between a conservative nominal Democrat and a conservative Republican that includes such longstanding liberal preferences as.
Shorter David Brooks: "The fact that the new Republican House will totally be run by pragmatic, reasonable moderates interested in cutting deals with Democrats rather than mere obstruction gives me a Boehner." My very favorite part of this classic in the being-a-dutiful-stenographer-for-politicians-who-will-tell-you-whatever-nonsense-you-want-to-hear genre is this:...
Via Amanda Hess, self- (and by nobody else) described very funny guy Richard Cohen leaps to the defense of Clarence Thomas: Every 20 years or so, some woman surfaces to.
It's not exactly shocking that Glenn Reynolds is embarrassing himself about the Degraded Mustard Gas of Death And Terror that totally retrospectively justifies the Iraq War. And yet, it's far.
Reynolds can always be counted on for at least a daily lesson, but holding Obama responsible for incidents of anti-Muslim bigotry is impressive even by his standards. And the magical powers attributed to Bush's magical speechifying make this an instant classic in the fake-libertarian Republican...
Upon hearing that Greg Mankiw will stop writing transparently illogical op-eds opposing Social Security and favoring upper-class tax cuts if the Bush tax cuts aren't extended, all I can say.
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.
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 Jerusalem settlements won't be dismantled'" to "therefore, Israel should be able to build more illegal...
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.