In that spirit, Kaus on the VP debate:Big loser, again, is Hillary. In two years Palin will be so much better she won't even be in the same league. ...The only plausible explanation I can think of for this "analysis" is that he's thinking with...
Month: October 2008
Each December, the state of Alaska hosts a holiday party. Bubbling with seasonal cheer, the public are invited to drop by the governor's mansion -- where Sarah Palin rarely spends.
It's surely highly-paid TV pundits who are completely obsessed with bizarrely involuted meta-critiques of politics as infotainment theater.Yglesias is spot on regarding this, but I think what he's saying can.
Was Biden talking about how he came to believe that the Senate should take the philosophy of the president's judicial appointments into account. Helping to torpedo Bork was indeed one of his finest moments, and good for him for not kowtowing to the "OMG accurately...
...but as far as I'm concerned, there was a coherent, well-informed adult up there, alongside someone who would get a C in a freshman American Politics course.
Even though as political scientist I'm duty-bound to note that tonight's festivities are unlikely to affect the election, I'm also looking forward to watching. I may chime in if there's.
(1) As a new blogger I'm clearly not aware of all internet traditions, as I didn't realize that deleting a post I had put up a couple of minutes earlier after I realized that I was linking to a satire is considered a breach of...
Since there seems to be some confusion here, allow me to save time in comments by explaining a basic distinction:1)Under current law, a woman has a fundamental right to choose.
To follow-up on Adam's point here, the conservative project to separate the implied constitutional "right to privacy" from Roe v. Wade is longstanding. (I should note, contra to Ponnuru's fancy.
Jim Pinkerton and I recorded a diavlog last week; he asked a lot of good questions and let me do most of the talking. Unfortunately, we spoke before the Couric interviews were broadcast, so there's something a bit antique about this already. In this Palinesque...
I think:Palin also claimed she was eager for the debate since the media had been 'censoring' her: "Getting to speak directly to Americans without that filter of mainstream media trying.
COURIC: Do you think there's an inherent right to privacy in the Constitution?PALIN: I do. Yeah, I do.COURIC: That's the cornerstone of Roe v WadePALIN: I do. And I believe.