Shorter Verbatim Gail Collins: "I don’t know if I’ve ever mentioned this, but Mitt Romney once drove to Canada with the family Irish setter on the roof of the car." And, yes, this is intended to be some nice self-lacerating wit, except that this precedes...
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Shorter Bobo: I find the "technocrats" in the Obama administration demoralizing because they don't understand the core of any successful anti-poverty formula: unplanned pregnancies, and plenty of 'em. And don't.
As you might expect, Ross Douthat is unhappy about the backlash against the Komen Foundation's decision to defund Planned Parenthood. Much of his argument consists of assertions of media bias.
Fred Hiatt brings us a strong opening bid: It also could have been possible that Witt wanted to preempt the inevitable investigation and humiliation. Whether the charge of “sexual assault,” whatever that is, was ever true is irrelevant to the immediate and substantively unfounded assault...
David Brooks has an argument that the co-winner of yesterday's caucuses is a different type of conservatism. Unlike that upper-class swell Mitt Romney, you see, Santorum offers a frothy agenda.
Shorter Bobo: "There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. Also, too much premarital sex. I am not a crackpot."
It's an appropriately dopey punchline to a Bobo column that actually argues that the Republican and "Democrat"* parties are equally monolithic. The guy makes a healthy salary to discuss politics and he's apparently never heard of Ben Nelson... *Yup, Bobo is now reduced to using...
Tom Friedman has a column about the folly of open-ended military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan. At least its bottom line, it must be noted, is correct. Omitted: and recognition.
Shorter Bobo: "'Stagnant social mobility' and the concentration of wealth within a self-perpetuating plutocracy are completely separate problems. And people without college degrees would magically become more prosperous if they.
You know how Tom Freidman or Matt Miller submits the same column about how we need a "radical centrist" pain caucus third party daddy to save us about twice a month? Not to be outdone, Joe Nocera is approximately the eight millionth pundit to write...
Jamelle has dealt with Bobo's hilarious attempt to get in on Friedman's radical centrist racket, but there's a bit I can't help but quote. As Jamelle says, Brooks is contemptuous.
Yesterday LGM's palatial capital region offices received their copy of Corey Robin's The Reactionary Mind. If I understand correctly, one of the book's main arguments is that attempts to distinguish.