Yeah, Democrats! You know I’m talking to you! It’s about time you donkeys got off your lazy asses and solved this border crisis! Yeah, I know Republicans controlled both houses of Congress, the White House, and the Supreme Court for two years and did bupkis! And I know that when you did negotiate with Republicans…
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Articles of Lasting Interest: Jazz: I post a jazz video every week, usually but not necessarily featuring a performance of a composition of Thelonious Monk. These videos can be accessed as a group here. “Harvard douchebaggery not exclusively a left-wing phenomenon, study reveals” is an unfriendly take on Harvard Professor Robert Barro’s disingenuous claim that…
Phony Evenhandedness, Case Nos. 377,421,904-6
Golly! That President Obama! When Republicans tell outrageous and disgusting lies, he just tells the truth! Why, he’s almost as bad as they are! That’s the gist of the bizarre rap of TV big-shot (five Emmys!) Jeff Greenfield in a recent piece for Politico Magazine, headed “Getting the Politics of Fear Right: Trump exploits our…
Jonathan Rauch has words of wisdom. Or not.
Over at Reason, Nick Gillespie has a long interview with Brookings dude Jonathan Rauch, bearing the snappy title “The Case For Back-Room Deals, Party Hacks & Unlimited Money in Politics”, a thesis he spells out at greater length in his new book, bearing the somewhat less snappy title “Political Realism: How Hacks, Machines, Big Money,…
Mitch McConnell, Absolute Asshole
For a glimpse at DC ego in action, check out Kentucky Sen. Mitch “Mitch the Bitch” McConnell berate, belittle, and bedrabble AEI policy nerd Norman Ornstein for having the temerity to ask the senior senator from the Bluegrass State, aka “the Chinless Wonder,” a question he didn’t want to answer. I suppose that a right-wing…
Yeah, that’s the problem. What’s the solution?
A couple of days ago I ran a brief riff on It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, a brief book by Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein whose basic premise is that right-wing Republicans are fucking up America, a premise with which I largely agree. As is so often the case, Mann and Ornstein are stronger…
It’s Even Worse Than It Looks—fairly short, fairly sweet
Recently, Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein got an enormous amount of play with an opinion piece in the Washington Post, “Let’s just say it: The Republicans are the problem.” Now they’re back with a “book,” It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, which may not be much more than an extended opinion piece, but is worth…