We need to recenter Bush's own culpability for the disaster that was the Iraq War in particular, and his presidency in general
Tag: Republican malgovernance
More than 200,000 Americans have died of COVID-19. If the United States was governed by a barely competent and vaguely public-spirited administration, the country might have suffered somewhere in the
Obviously, it’s a good thing that the particularly appalling language has been excised, but it shouldn’t be forgotten that the “arbitrarily deny poor women access to essential health
A superficial analysis of the House Republicans’ pledge to vote to repeal health care reform is that it’s nothing more than a symbolic gesture. While many might downplay their modest intellectual prowess, they must possess a rudimentary understanding of the basic institutional structure outlined in the very Constitution that they plan to patronizingly read on the […]
John Styles, via Chris Blattman: About a week after the earthquake, economist Tyler Cowen wrote that Obama looked like the “Haiti president”: Obama will (and should) do something about thi
Please, please, please reject federal stimulus funding; we’ll get to find out if someone who rejects federal money can get elected dogcatcher in Baton Rouge. Yours truly, Rob Jindal is far too s
In fairness, I think the comparison is unfair to Hoover…
I would expect career civil servants to do a better job than political appointees in any case, but I do wonder whether there’s a difference between the parties. Republicans, after all, expect go
Krugman on the Citigroup bailout. Or perhaps “weak, arbitrary, [and] incomprehensible” is the better phrase. The fact that Citigroup’s shareholders are apparently not even going to g
Yglesias makes a couple good points about the failure of the bailout bill. I especially agree that Paulson isn’t getting nearly enough blame for having completely botched the process at the start. Paulson’s initial proposal reminds me of the great scene in A Civil Action where Schlichtmann opens up settlement negotiations with an utterly outrageous […]
Chris Cox.
Shorter Bush administration: “Indirectly punishing partisan opponents is more important than effectively opposing terrorism.” (Via Atrios.)