It's actually kind of impressive how many obvious errors of analysis Charles Lane packs into a few paragraphs here:I can't remember a more breathtaking 48 hours in politics since Barack Obama's election in November 2008. Byron Dorgan is out; Chris Dodd is out; Bill Ritter...
Author: Scott Lemieux
This year I forgot to do a "put Rock on the Rock" post, so I'll delegate to Neyer and Posnanski (a better idea in any case.) I would like to.
Although there will be an inevitable rush among Beltway journalists to turn this into a "Democrats are dropping like flies!" narrative (see a classic example here), I endorse all of.
I think I liked Shattered Glass a lot more than Atrios did, and so perhaps I'm interpreting it more charitably, but I'm not sure that the film portrays Lane as a hero so much as it shows someone a bit in over is head and...
Shorter Col. Mustard: The fact that even the polling firm most favorable to the GOP has the Republican candidate trailing by about 10 points is excellent news...for Republicans!
Narratives about the estate tax really do represent one of the great con jobs of all time. The "double taxation" argument would irredeemably stupid even if it was true; if.
At one of my wonkier venues, I have some thoughts about the issues that Matt and Ezra have also discussed recently. There's no question that the combination of increased partisanship and institutional rules that assumed a substantial degree of bipartisan comity create a serious problem....
Remarkably, this wasn't even Reynolds's first episode of bizarre projection of the week -- earlier, he claimed that Obama can't be trusted with national security because...he's...wearing a polo shirt? Again,.
Sorry for the absence -- visiting family followed by visiting significant other's family (important news for upper midwesterners: Bell's Rye Stout and Old Ale are exceptional even by their standards.).
Roman Polanski.
Andrew Malcolm. (See also known Man of Ethics Mark Foley.)
Apparently, spending hundreds of billions of dollars to construct a facility used 8 time a year with contracts that ensure that virtually all of the profits go to the subsidized.