Shorter Joe Lieberman: “I can’t believe people are tarring me as a phony ‘Fox News Democrat.’ In other news, today I will use Fox News to inform people that I will run against the Democratic nominee if Connecticut Democrats have the temerity not to annoit me to the position to which I am inherently entitled.”
Month: August 2006
This is 100% right: Hubert Humphrey, one of contemporary hawks’ darlings, only secured 43 percent of the popular vote. George Wallace, formerly a Democrat, got 14 percent of the vote, overwhelmi
Perhaps the most striking thing about Marty Peretz’s unspeakably atrocious Wall Street Journal op-ed is how little actual content is in the thing. With its obsession with lineage and social stat
Did Rumsfeld rigorously present a realistic, non-rose-tinted picture of Iraq? Julia reports, you decide. Mark Schmitt on Holy Joe: “Politicians can be superficially supportive but also cruelly contemptuous toward colleagues who can’t take care of their own business. I think that some of the establishment figures have to be noticing that not only did Lieberman […]
This is the second of an eight part review series of the Patterson Summer Reading List. 1. Colossus, Niall Ferguson2. Illicit, Moises Naim Illicit, by Moises Naim, is about crime. According to Naim, c
Shorter Verbatim Peter Beinart: “Listen to Joe Lieberman’s liberal critics and you hear the same lines again and again. He has “betrayed his party” and practiced “turncoa
Would you please stop with the bunting runners from second to third? Against Jaret Wright? You’re playing the Yankees, man. It’s a war and you’re stabbing the forces of civilization and decency in the back. As one of your rather more successful predecessors once urbanely noted, “you’ve only got 27 outs in the game.” And, […]
USS Oregon was the third ship of the Indiana class, the first class of true battleships constructed by the United States Navy. Oregon was laid down in 1891, immediately in the wake of the publication
Shorter Robert Kagan: “If I had to pin down what makes a man honest, I’d have to say it’s being a relentless kiss-ass who refuses to change his positions irrespective of how many dis
Indeed. Although I think the story needed a some gushing Tim McCarver quotes pointing out that only a truly special player could throw out Frank Thomas on a ball hit 18 inches from his glove hand… The other irritating thing is that while Jeter–for all of his flipping the ball near home plate and willing […]
There are lots of ways to define a “Republican,” but “someone who thinks that someone with more than $5 million worth of assets is ‘poor or middle class‘” seems as
What with the Blogads and the Googleads, Scott and I derive an income from this blog that, when supplemented by full time jobs and heavy debt, allows us to live lower middle class lives of comfort. Ho