One place where you're particularly likely to see "but would he/she be fun to have a beer with?" standards applied is Supreme Court nomination hearings and the surrounding discourse. You may remember, for example, that Sam Alito's baseball-watching and nice family were not only supposed...
High Broderism
Shorter Robert Samuelson: Anyone who disagrees with my right-wing views on fiscal policy is irrational. And you're especially crazy if you think that there are any moral issues involved in.
Peter Beinart's reaction to Bayh's resignation is...odd:Obama’s general-election win in Indiana, along with his victories in North Carolina and Virginia, were central to his claim that he was transcending the.
Obviously, the idea that Evan Bayh has any chance of winning a national Democratic primary is funny stuff (or pathetic, when the person making the argument is actually paid to write about politics; it's funnier coming from hapless amateurs.) But I especially enjoyed this from...
There has already been a lot of good commentary about the latest from Fred Hiatt's crayon scribbler emeritus. I think this the key part:Her lengthy Saturday night keynote address to.
I'm still going to stick with my contention that the key variables in claiming that Obama's banal criticism of a Supreme Court opinion was somehow an "unprecedented" outrage are 1)President.
It's actually kind of impressive how many obvious errors of analysis Charles Lane packs into a few paragraphs here:I can't remember a more breathtaking 48 hours in politics since Barack Obama's election in November 2008. Byron Dorgan is out; Chris Dodd is out; Bill Ritter...
Shorter William Daley: The Democratic coalition needs to be big enough to encompass legislators who oppose every significant item on a moderately progressive agenda, or the party is doomed.
I obviously agree with Ed Kilgore's point that voting for cloture should be the minimal acceptable standard for being a Democratic caucus member in good standing, but I think this.
Via Krugman (who does a good job of explaining why a reform bill should contain a public option), perhaps someone can make heads or tails of this Joe Klein argument, because I sure can't:I would be opposed to a system where every doctor and nurse...
Saint Bradley. I'm not sure what's worse -- his apparently sincere belief that congressional Republicans are willing to make a deal on health care, or his apparently sincere belief that.
The Broderite argument against politics in the United States Senate, at least when it comes to judicial confirmation hearings, has now been made by the man himself: Both these senators.