The General makes a modest proposal to Marty Peretz.
Author: Scott Lemieux
For pure, unadulterated comedy gold you can't get much better than Marty Peretz reacting to the shocking development of a Democrat winning the Democratic primary in Connecticut. Admittedly, he's so.
With 94. 45% of precincts reporting, Lawyers, Guns, and Money is projecting Ned Lamont as winner of the Connecticut Democratic Senate primary. Hey, if Mariano Rivera can give up a.
The good news is, as of this posting, Lamont is still ahead, with 3/4 of precincts reporting. The bad news is that he seems to have been losing ground all night. There have been two big votes--the 1995 Quebec Referendum and the 2000 U.S. Presidential...
Ah, I see that some Bush apologists are finally letting their pretense that the Iraq war was going to produce a nice pro-American pro-Israeli liberal democracy fade away into more.
Shorter Joe Lieberman: "I can't believe people are tarring me as a phony 'Fox News Democrat.' In other news, today I will use Fox News to inform people that I.
This is 100% right:Hubert Humphrey, one of contemporary hawks' darlings, only secured 43 percent of the popular vote. George Wallace, formerly a Democrat, got 14 percent of the vote, overwhelmingly from people who had historically been voting Democratic, on a white supremacist ticket. Before 1964...
Perhaps the most striking thing about Marty Peretz's unspeakably atrocious Wall Street Journal op-ed is how little actual content is in the thing. With its obsession with lineage and social.
Did Rumsfeld rigorously present a realistic, non-rose-tinted picture of Iraq? Julia reports, you decide. Mark Schmitt on Holy Joe: "Politicians can be superficially supportive but also cruelly contemptuous toward colleagues.
Shorter Verbatim Peter Beinart: "Listen to Joe Lieberman's liberal critics and you hear the same lines again and again. He has "betrayed his party" and practiced "turncoat politics." He has "defined his image by distancing himself from other Democrats." He's not a "team player." Funny,...
Would you please stop with the bunting runners from second to third? Against Jaret Wright? You're playing the Yankees, man. It's a war and you're stabbing the forces of civilization.
Shorter Robert Kagan: "If I had to pin down what makes a man honest, I'd have to say it's being a relentless kiss-ass who refuses to change his positions irrespective.