Shorter Verbatim CNN: “More and more, Congress is acting less like a deliberative legislative body, and more like a political campaign. We’ve been seeing the politicization of every aspect of government.” What kind of deliberation is inherent to a five-minute radio address, or how “politics” is to be avoided on an issue where two branches […]
Category: sheer idiocy
In trying to argue that the public really does favor the Republicans on foreign policy, Barone writes: But when it comes to the question of protecting Americans from Islamist terrorists, the Democrats
So. I haven’t been posting much on the weekends because N and I have been escaping the city as much as possible, and leaving our wi-fi equipped laptops behind. Usually the weekends are pretty qu
This discussion of Brookings Institute Fellow For Disastrous, Counterproductive Foreign Interventions and Bush Administration Apologism Michael O’Hanlon reminds me of my very favorite “liberal hawk” argument defending the surge, this comedy classic from Jeffrey Herf: If the Democratic party’s national leadership continues in its opposition to the strategy Bush has just announced, and if, against […]
More frivolous lawsuits for purveyors of right-wing identity politics…. I’d have to say that if asking for providing information about cases assumes endorsement, teaching con law is going
Many bloggers have already taken whacks at the non-argument, made by Alan Dershowitz and recycled by Marty Peretz, that the Libby conviction was a political conspiracy by conservative Republicans agai