Yesterday I wrote a little piece making fun of Ben Smith, the New York Times’ newly installed in-house media critic, for uncritically endorsing Bernie Sanders’ sweeping (and, in my opinion, banal) denunciation of the “capitalist” media. In my brief beatdown of both Ben and Bernie, I neglected to remark that if Ben wanted to point…
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OK, Bernie’s a mensch
I have never been, nor am I today, a fan of Bernie Sanders’ economic ideas, which I find uniformly awful. Unlike Bernie, I am not a mercantilist. I do not believe that there are X number of “good jobs” in the world, or that it is the duty of the U.S. government to ensure that…
Please God, let Bernie be crushed
I know that’s not much of a prayer, but that’s how I feel. But, even if my wish comes true, and Hillary Clinton can earn a majority of delegates prior to the convention this summer, Bernieismo has already taken its toll on the Democratic Party, pushing a donkey that was not terribly “progressive” in the…
Cry sorrow, sorrow, but let the truth prevail
On November 8, 2016, in the wake of Donald Trump’s first triumph, I wrote “It is, appropriately enough, gray and wet in Washington, DC this morning. Brilliant sunshine would be almost more irony than one could bear.” Today, we are not so lucky. What I had to say in my earlier post, which bore the…
Why Harris is struggling: Joe Biden’s record
Kamala Harris came out of the gate like gangbusters, but now she’s slowed to an indifferent cantor. What’s the deal? The deal is, largely, the same as Hubert Humphrey’s, Al Gore’s, and Hillary Clinton’s: they can’t run away from their president’s record. Now, it’s easy to say that Joe was the victim of circumstance, though…
Political Notes from All Over
“Anyone but Joe,” anyone? Well, that was fun, wasn’t it? Spending the last few weeks laughing at the Republicans over their self-inflicted imbroglio/embroilment trying to elect a speaker for the House of Representatives was a treat. Well, now it’s our turn to suffer, as Uncle Joe’s Corvette winter plus the upcoming Hunter Biden follies, which…
Joe Biden likes being a Cold War President
It is common wisdom that presidents tend to concentrate on domestic policy when first arriving in office and then pivot to foreign affairs, where they can act without having to worry, too much, about the reception their ideas will receive on Capitol. It can be said of Joe Biden that he’s making the switch in…
Shorter Democratic “socialists”: The Revolution will be postponed
I have to thank the editorial staff at the WashPost for this one: Congress passed up an obvious policy tool to fix wealth inequality, pointing out the utter failure of congressional Democrats to revise our nation’s abysmal “keep the rich folks happy” non-tax on inheritances. As the Post notes, billionaire-bashing folks like Sens. Elizabeth Warren…
Is Charlie Sykes the new Dick Morris?
Well, I hope so, and I hope Joe Biden or his “people” will take the hint, if not from Charlie himself then the myriad of excellent sources Charlie collects in his recent piece for “The Bulwark”, Joe Biden Needs Four Sister Souljah Moments, explaining why Joe needs to “get tough” with the Democratic Party’s newly…
Let’s all hope Terry McAuliffe doesn’t get what he deserves for uncritically embracing Virginia’s all too woke education lobby
There was a time—there was a long time—during both the Clinton and Obama administrations when the Democratic neoliberal establishment did not much care for the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, regarding them, correctly, as enemies of educational reform, more interested in protecting bad teachers than helping struggling students. Well, that was…