Alas, Krugman's response to Broder noting Franken's well-above-the-Senate-mean knowledge of public policy probably won't cut any ice, given that there's nothing worse to Broder than actually caring about public policy. Remember his attacks on the borrr-ing Al Gore and his actual interest in public policy?I...
High Broderism
Shorter David Broder: Illegal and immoral acts by public officials shouldn't be subjected to prosecution as long as said officials really thought they were a good idea. Besides, it would.
I'm not really sure about why there seems to be an endless market for op-eds in which Will Saletan informs us that the answer to political conflict just happens to.
In comments, America's most dangerous professor directs us to this Jacob Weisberg classic, which puts his comments about Hillary's excessively ambitious and calculated iPod and how it spells doom for the Democrat Party in the relevant context. Even if you haven't read it, you know...
I suppose Krugman says all that needs to be said in response to Will Marshall, but I can't resist quoting the content -- such as it is -- of Marshall's.
Ed Kilgore has a good, very detailed response to Damon Linker. One thing to add is that the idea that pro-criminalizing-abortion politics is at bottom about procedural objections rather than.
I have some minor quibbles with Jeffrey Rosen's defense of Joe Biden's handling of the Bork and Thomas confirmation hearings. While I agree with Rosen, for example, that the looking into Bork's video records was outrageous, it's also not reasonable to conflate that with Anita...
In a general sense, I agree that sometimes people can get a little sloppy about blaming "the Democrats" for the enactment of policies or nomination confirmations opposed by most Democrats.
Matt asks, in re: a ridiculous LA Times editorial claiming that McCain and Obama are pretty much the same if you just ignore their massive policy differences on virtually every.
Good to see the fine folks in Tuscaloosa grasp what the Washington Post was unable to:Michael Mukasey may have a distinguished career as a judge but as U.S. attorney general, he's a loser. For all the interest he has shown in the duties of his...
You may recall Ben Wittes arguing that once Mukasey was dutifully confirmed he wouldn't be able to stonewall because the Democrats would suddenly have more leverage him because Mukasey would...need.
Apparently, there really were journalists who took George W. Bush's transparently meaningless boilerplate about bipartisanship seriously, and thought that someone who sometimes cut deals with one of the most reactionary.