I haven’t linked to Matt Taibbi’s blog before, but I have read him a lot. This quote puts ‘paid’ on my indolence. Writing about Sarah Palin’s performance at the Republican National Convention:
It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag.
Paul Krugman, never one to rest on his Nobel laurels, comes out swinging. He tackles the heritage of FDR and the New Deal.
And F.D.R. wasn’t just reluctant to pursue an all-out fiscal expansion — he was eager to return to conservative budget principles. That eagerness almost destroyed his legacy. After winning a smashing election victory […]
Rahm Emmanuel took credit for the success of the 2006 mid-term elections and that meme is being repeated now that he has been named Obama’s chief of staff. I don’t see it that way. Here’s the dope on Howard Dean, they guy who really architected the win in 2006:
He did not make a lot of […]
John Cole comments on the latest give away by the Bushes:
I think Booman has the right idea- the Obama administration needs to treat Washington like one big crime scene.
Joe Lieberman is currently the chair of the Homeland Security committee. As such, he is charged with oversight. He has done nothing in the last two years […]
The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed piece by Mark Lilla. Here’s the money graf:
Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly (if belatedly) that conservatives’ “disdain for liberal intellectuals” had slipped into “disdain for the educated class as a whole,” and worried that the Republican Party was alienating educated voters. I […]
The Bush Administration is giving away free money again.
The financial world was fixated on Capitol Hill as Congress battled over the Bush administration’s request for a $700 billion bailout of the banking industry. In the midst of this late-September drama, the Treasury Department issued a five-sentence notice that attracted almost no public attention.
But corporate tax […]
The cable news nets seem fixated on the fact that Obama is an African American. They keep talking about the color of his skin. That goes to show that we are not yet past the test proposed by Martin Luther King, that people be judged on the content of their character. Look for the media […]
Joe Lieberman is running around talking about how he was just being independent when he supported John McCain and spoke at the Republican convention. That wasn’t independence. That was Joe Lieberman angling for a spot on the Republican ticket.
He didn’t get it. His exercise of political ambition came up short and now he is out […]
The knives are out, and Sarah Palin is about to find out that her half life in national politics was up yesterday.
NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin’s shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain’s top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous […]
I’m sitting on the sofa and the national networks are bringing on black people of to talk about the fact that a black guy was elected president. Their questions are predictable and banal. How many ways can they say the same thing?
I turn to the local news and they run coverage of front pages from […]