As Ezra points out, as did a certain visiting dignitary yesterday, it must be said (painfully in my case) that the initial returns on Obama going with the "inside the tent pissing out" strategy with Lieberman have been positive. During the stimulus debate, at least,...
Author: Scott Lemieux
On the one hand, I fully expected to love Synecdoche, New York. Dargis's rave (though an outlier) seemed persuasive enough, I liked the premise since I first heard about, liked.
The more that's known about Yoo, Bybee and the Bush administration's arbitrary torture regime, the better.
This is, of course, right. Once a bill has enough votes to pass how many people vote for it shouldn't matter, and it will be an inevitable effect of having more ideologically coherent parties. Since this also means more responsible government, that's fine with me....
A tragedy for all the victims and their loved ones, but this seems especially horrible.
Given that it was always a pretty terrible idea, better now than later.
Shorter Verbatim Wan Juilliams: "Michelle Obama, you know, she's got this Stokely Carmichael in a designer dress thing going."NPR's Ombudsman, in response, asserts that Williams is "now paid to give his opinion, and with three decades in the news business, it is often a valuable...
Obviously, I'd rather sit through a two-day "the films of Joel Schumacher and Tom Shadyac accompanied by the music of Creed and Jessica Simpson" marathon than Pajamas Media's "Wingnuttery 2.0".
For one last go-round, I'll respond to a couple of the creative attempts in comments to justify essentially indefensible life tenure for judges. Essentially, all of these arguments are "largely.
I have some thoughts about Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Supreme Court tenure over at Comment Is Free.
I suppose Krugman says all that needs to be said in response to Will Marshall, but I can't resist quoting the content -- such as it is -- of Marshall's.
Shorter Bryan Stevenson: "First, the Yankees don't believe that African-Americans should be enslaved. Then, they don't believe that women should be enslaved. Always the aggressors!"