My official, rational, considered position is that Evan Bayh's retirement is a bad thing, given the near certainty that he will be replaced by a Republican with a much worse voting record. My emotional reaction is that it's hard to be that upset about a...
nonsensical centrism
You've found the sweet spot; a compromise bill that everyone to the left of Snowe and to the right of Jay Rockefeller can support.I have no idea if Rockefeller would.
What's most striking to me about Joe Klein's leaked JournoList messages are the mash notes to Jim Cooper, the right-wing nominal Democrat who played a major role in destroying health.
Aye. Not the rules, but rather the policies that the rules enabled. Important distinction.
I finally found time to read the symposium on Rosenblum's On The Side of The Angels over at Jacob Levy's blog. For the most part, very good stuff, but it's.
The one thing that's fairly clear is that William Saletan doesn't understand the most compelling extant critiques of linking ethnicity with IQ. I'm unsure of two things, however. First, is.
To add just a bit to Atrios' point, Centrism in the Blogosphere is the idea that people of all ideologies can come together to worship Glenn Reynolds.