The Cost of Palin
From The New Republic’s Reagan Appointee and (Recent) McCain Adviser Charles Fried Supports Obama: “Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, has long been one of the most important conservative thinkers in the United States. Under President Reagan, he served, with great distinction, as Solicitor General of the United States. Since then, he has [...]
I Think Many Independents Would Agree
From Anne Applebaum’s Why I can’t vote for John McCain.: “I would give anything to rewrite history and make McCain president in 2000. But in 2008, I don’t think I can vote for him. Barack Obama is indeed the least experienced, least tested candidate in modern presidential history. But at least if he wins, I [...]
Venturing Out From The Base
From David Brooks’ Ceding the Center: “The Hamiltonian-Bull Moose tendency is the great, moderate strain in American politics. In some sense this whole campaign was a contest to see which party could reach out from its base and occupy that centrist ground. The Democratic Party did that. Senior Democrats like Robert Rubin, Larry Summers and [...]
Democrats may get their diploma
From Tim Egan’s The Party of Yesterday: “Two years ago, a list of the nation’s brainiest cities was put together from Census Bureau reports — that is, cities with the highest percentage of college graduates, which is not the same as smart, of course….Among the top 10, only two of those metro areas…voted Republican in [...]
More GOP Woes
Here’s Christopher Buckley explaining why he bowed out of National Review: “Within hours of my endorsement [for Obama] it became clear that [the conservative] National Review had a serious problem on its hands. So the next morning, I thought the only decent thing to do would be to offer to resign my column there. This [...]
Have I mentioned that Bill Kristol sucks ass cooties?
From Glenn Greenwald’s Bill Kristol in a nutshell: “That’s typical Bill Kristol — not only chronically wrong about everything, but far worse, completely incapable of acknowledging mistakes. He just suppresses them, pretends they don’t exist, and in that regard is the perfect face for the right-wing movement that is dying a painful, harsh and profoundly well-deserved death [...]
Main Street? Never heard of it.
From NY Times’ editorial, Meanwhile, in the Economy: “After the Senate approved the $700 billion bank bailout, the majority leader, Harry Reid, tried to persuade his colleagues to address another economic calamity before they left town for the long election recess. He urged them to extend unemployment benefits for 800,000 jobless Americans. In the face [...]
Why We Need The Change We Need
From NY Times’s Tom Davis Gives Up: “The [Gingrich] revolution is over, the thrill is gone and the Republican brand under President Bush has, in Davis’s view, been so tarnished that, as he likes to say, ‘if we were a dog food, they would take us off the shelf.’ These will be [Republican Rep. Tom] [...]
“A real woman! The real thing!”
From Matt Taibbi’s Lies of Sarah Palin: “In her speech, Palin presented herself as a raging baby-making furnace of middle-class ambition next to whom the yuppies of the Obama set – Who never want anything all that badly except maybe a few afternoons with someone else’s wife, or a few kind words in The New [...]
These are the people who want to run the US for four more years
From James Moore’s A Nation of Village Idiots: “Let’s just consider the money. The public bailout of insurance giant (becoming a dwarf) AIG is estimated at $85 billion. According to one report, that’s more than the Bush administration spent on Aid to Families with Dependent Children during his entire time in office. That amount of [...]
