I've been puzzling over the same questions Rob has -- that why both the White House and the Raul Grijalva set among House progressives seem publicly committed to positions that are utterly irrational. And...I'm still not sure, but here are my guesses.The House liberals suddenly...
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What's especially rich about John Kyl holding up presidential appointments over trivial and irrelevant policy matters (in this case, a little stupid moralism about online gambling) is that Kyl was.
St. Ignatius of Georgetown bestows his benediction on Obama's escalation of the war in Afghanistan, but, being a liberal columnist at the liberal Washington Post, he regrets that the announced.
An unfortunate aspect of the nature of politics is that principled opposition to disastrous and/or immoral policies tends to either disappear or at least lose much of its intensity when such policies are adopted by politicians one supports.Certainly over the last year we've seen this...
To follow up a bit on Rob, I would have to say that I'm if anything a little more in sympathy with Matt's point. At the very least, if one.
I don't trust the Obama administration either, but in the end that's not a very relevant political fact. I guess I think that Chris sort of gives the game away.
I didn't see it live, but this is a useful summary.
Yeah, good luck with that. Although I am never surprised by anything from the winger puke funnel going mainstream...
If Obama is proven to have made mistakes when we see what comes out of the World's Worst Deliberative Body, they will have been about his strategy with respect to.
I think this is definitely correct. I didn't understand why Obama was appointing viable Senate candidates at the time, and it looks even worse in retrospect. (Although the subsequent analysis doesn't apply in her case, one can also add Sebeius, who would have been at...
The Obama administration's ongoing inaction with respect to the unpopular, unjust, and contrary to national security DADT policy is indeed a disgrace:In all of this, nothing is more infuriating than.
I was fortunate enough to be part of a group of journalists and bloggers invited to meet with President Clinton at his offices in Harlem this afternoon. The main subject.