An interesting question--if you could pick one part of the Constitution to get rid of, what would it be?I thought about saying ditching Article V; as I have argued before, this was a major mistake. But I'm much more sure that it should be modified...
Author: Scott Lemieux
This is about right. As near as I can figure, the GOP gets their worst nominees through, gives up nothing whatsoever (and, no, I don't count vague promises as "something"),.
Roy Edroso notes that Glenn Reynolds linked to a review of a couple books about NASCAR that was, indeed, bad enough to be a cover story of the Times book.
I'm already behind on music memes I've been conscripted to do, but since it's shorter I'll do Lauren's, tagged by Roxanne. 1. What is the total volume of musical files on your computer?Zilch. Remarkable, I know; I don't have an I-Pod and don't have downloading...
Amanda Marcotte notes that the woman whom the GOP thinks it's worth breaking clear-cut Senate rules for is rated "poor" by 43% of the raving Trotskyites at the Houston Bar.
I am a very strong supporter of NARAL, and am also annoyed by claims that the Democratic Party is excessively in thrall to "interest group politics," because 1)democratic politics is.
Walking argument against nepotism John Podhoretz argues:It opens next week. I saw it, and here's the thing: It's unbelievably bad. O I'm telling you this because movie critics won't. So far all the early reviews -- all of them, from Variety to the Hollywood Reporter...
I missed this part of the debate, but I'm glad that Patty Murray gave the appropriate response to Kay Bailey Hutchinson's interminable blubbering about what a great person Priscilla Owen.
ROTHENBERG: I simply wanted to add, Wolf, that if you want to know who to blame ultimately for this confrontation that we have now, I think you can almost make.
John Conryn is currently on the Senate floor repeating arguments made by Democratic Senators during the Clinton administration that judicial nominees should be let out of committee. It would be hard to get a better example of poetic justice as fairness. Wow, now he's claiming...
Iocaste makes a good point about the nature of the error that produced the Newsweek scandal. The wingnutosphere is taking a page out of the playbook that was used by.
Con: Shorter Glenn Reynolds: Freedom of the press is a good thing, so long as it doesn't involve any information that reflects poorly on the foreign policies of (Republican) Presidents..