Shorter Bobo: I put the blame for the fact that nice guys like Paul Ryan won't agree to any budget deals that don't involve high upper-class tax cuts squarely where it belongs: on Joe Biden, for unkindly and dramatically telling the truth about Republican priorities.
Author: Scott Lemieux
Well, what can I tell you baseball fans in the Beltway: you can take the Expos away from Montreal, but you can't take the Expos from your franchise. I would.
A few points about A-Rod being benched: I don't think the question of whether Joe Girardi is right or wrong is empirically knowable. The case for his move is clear.
Shorter Verbatim Daniel Henninger: "The Obama campaign’s resurrection of “liar” as a political tool is odious because it has such a repellent pedigree. It dates to the sleazy world of fascist and totalitarian propaganda in the 1930s. It was part of the milieu of stooges,...
Shorter Paul Ryan: "Lie. Evasion. Non-sequitur. Anecdote about someone from middle America substantially less coherent and relevant than Abraham Simpson at his most rambling. Overrule Roe v. Wade." Shorter Joe.
Gary Bettman. Seriously, he's really reached a remarkable pinnacle of achievement. Being clearly the worst commissioner of a North American professional sport is like being the most irritating Train song.
Michelle Rhee is the most famous fraud among the education union-busters whose fake stories flatter various elites while doing nothing to advance the interests of underprivileged children. But Joel Klein, former chancellor of the NYC Department of Education, would seem to be another one. Like...
A well-known Trotskyite rag is reporting that new unemployment claims are significantly down. I wonder who or what is responsible for this faked data -- ACORN? McCulloch v. Maryland? The.
Including adopting the preferred strategy of talk-radio callers and pinch hitting for your #3 hitter. Dammit. Meanwhile, Soriano throwing 5 balls, having two of them called strikes, and then having.
In light of his unemployment trooferism this week, it seems worth noting that Jack Welch was once the hands-on owner of a purportedly "liberal" network that worked extremely hard to put George W. Bush in the White House.
Symbols are often mistaken for causes. As a Supreme Court scholar, it's striking to me that probably the two most famous Supreme Court decisions of the 19th Century are Marbury.
Foley, Gray, and Carmon have this covered. Unlike his outright lying about his tax plan at the debates, his abortion shuffle is a little more cleverly misleading: "There’s no legislation.