In addition to the reasons Krugman mentions, there's the even more powerful issue that grand bargains aren't actually enforceable. Even if you could reach a deal to cut the deficit that would be consistent with progressive interests (theoretically possible once the economy improves, essentially impossible...
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Evan Bayh. I mean, give Lanny Davis this: he never really pretends to be anything but a greasy hack. Bayh wants to be Lanny Davis while pompously patting himself on.
Never let it be said that I don't know how to spend an exciting Saturday night, I'm re-watching the first Bush/Gore debate. (SPOILER: Bush lies his ass off, particularly about.
Recent discussion here may have given the impression that I am comprehensively anti-spoiler. Absolutely not true! Some spoilers I like perfectly well. Now, if the Red Sox can save any remaining wins until Monday... In addition, while I can never exactly be happy about a...
Shorter Politico: Mitt Romney is likely to lose badly because he's just too good for America to appreciate his qualities. Wonderful guy, but bad candidate. A Nice Guy who deserves.
I can just imagine the pitch meeting for this. "It will be The Replacements meets Waiting for Superman! For the screenplay, we'll hire someone who worships Aaron Sorkin but finds.
I missed this until it was pointed out by a commenter, but dsquared had actually already addressed Romney's executive branch powers in a comment: Nuh uh on anything that requires judicial or regulatory nominations, which are trivially easy to filibuster for a Congressional party that...
A typically essential Charlie Savage piece on Romney's defense policy team: In one of his first acts, President Obama issued an executive order restricting interrogators to a list of nonabusive.
I don't want to repeat myself and I'm reluctant to engage in further conflict with some of the people on the interwebs whom I most admire. So I'll mostly let.
Since I'm guessing that Glenn's tweet is directed at me, I should clarify what I mean in my previous post. When I said that the issues Friedersdorf focuses on are "pet issues," I am certainly not suggesting that they are not important. I certainly don't...
Obviously, I concur with pretty much everything in djw and Erik's posts about the inexplicably celebrated Conor Friedersdorf essay in which he congratulates himself for being too good for the.
I have a piece up at the Prospect about how, contrary to the conventional wisdom, embracing reproductive freedom has almost certainly been a net win for Democrats in national elections.