David Broder's latest column on the utopian third party group Unity '08 contains this damaging admission:
I contacted [Unity co-founder Douglas] Bailey recently to ask what had happened to this bold gamble, and he was the source of that...
Via Atrios, Hotsoup co-founder and former hotshot Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier has fled back to the welcoming embrace of the AP. Why? Because the concept for the site -- "the first online community that joins Opinion Drivers...
As TNR's Jon Chait points out, Frank Rich's column about GOP infighting in New York's 23rd Congressional district is full of nasty rhetoric comparing the GOP to murderous regimes, cults, etc.:
[T]he real action migrated to New York’s ...
Brendan NyhanSep 30, 2010 at 3:28pmFrom my Twitter feed (9/17-9/20)BrendanNyhanSep 17, 2010 at 6:31amBarry Pump has more on GOP unfavs -- we're in uncharted territory (much worse #s than Dems, contradicts generic ballot) http://j.mp/9Qks...
I think it's a scandal that we don't have universal health insurance in this country, but Congressman Pete Stark has gone off the deep end:
We're the only country in the world -- not the only civilized country, not the only industrializ...
Even as "Team Rudy" touts his national poll numbers, Pollster.com's Mark Blumenthal notes that Republicans know nothing about him, quoting USA Today:
Barely one in five Republicans knew that he supports abortion rights and civil unions ...
Political scientist/blogger Dan Drezner has posted a link to his book manuscript, which argues that the great powers retain a great deal of regulatory power despite the much-hyped trend toward globalization. I'm no expert on the subject...
Jon Chait and Jacob Weisberg have a nice pair of articles on the hollowness of the so-called conservatism practiced under President Bush and the current Republican leadership in Congress.
Here's Chait:
The failure of intellectuals on t...
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Posted by: David | May 19, 2010 at 02:56 PM