Ralph, explaining why things didn’t quite work out the way they should have under Dub-Ya: If the Medicare Part D expansion had been combined the reforms to Medicare the Bush White House originally wanted, if the push Social Security reform hadn’t gone nowhere, and if tax reform hadn’t died along with the rest of Bush’s…
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Ross Douthat’s false equivalencies
Ross Douthat isn’t always wrong. It’s just that I only write about him when he is. Or, more precisely, when he’s being deceitful. In a recent post, Ross tries to argue that, just because Republicans are trying to reduce the number of black voters (which, Ross admits uncomfortably, they are), that isn’t so bad, because…
Ross Douthat’s Aura of Deceit
Ross Douthat has a posting, here, titled Obama’s Aura of Defeat. According to Ross, Obama’s campaign is sucking wind: Losing campaigns have a certain feel to them: They go negative hard, try out new messaging very late in the game, hype issues that only their core supporters are focused on, and try to turn non-gaffes…
Ross Douthat, doubling down the dyspepsia
It’s tough, being a Republican with a brain these days. Or even half of one, judging from the howls of pain being emitted by two of my less favorite people, John Podhoretz and Ross Douthat. John, in what Ross describes as a “dyspeptic assessment of the Republican field,” takes a particular swing at Rick Perry,…
Ross Douthat, Enters Dancing
I haven’t been kind to Ross Douthat in the past, referring to him with perhaps an excess of sarcasm as Ross Dumbfuck. Well, I won’t descend to that level today, but I will say that his debut column in the New York Times, “Cheney for President,” is not a winner. “Watching Dick Cheney defend the…
Shorter Ross: We’re almost as bad as the Jews
Alas, poor Douthat! Ross Douthat, I mean, who bravely assumes the task of explaining why he will celebrate another Christmas as a Catholic, despite the, um, unending revelations of unending horrors of sexual abuse and hierarchical coverup that have plagued the Church for the last, I don’t know, twenty or thirty years. To explain his…
Et tu, Ross? Aka “Catty Monday”
Just two weeks ago, NYT papist in chief Ross Douthat had a column, “Make Catholicism Weird Again”, urging a return to the good old days, saying that the Church should reclaim its rightful role “as a full alternative culture in its own right — one that reclaims the inheritance on display at the Met,1 glories…
Ross versus Ezra: No way! Your crazies are way crazier than our crazies!
Ross Douthat picks a fight with Ezra Klein over whether Obama Derangement Syndrome is more intense than Bush Derangement Syndrome.Klein links BDS to 9/11, but struggles to find comparable causality for ODS: “Bush Derangement Syndrome sought extraordinary explanations for extraordinary events; Obama Derangement Syndrome seeks extraordinary explanations for an ordinary presidency.” Sniffs Ross, “This … does…
Douthat’s (and Goldberg’s) Dilemma Resolved
Ross Douthat takes a very sour tone with regard to Mark Sanford’s election as a congressman from South Carolina after, among other things, taking French, so to speak. leave from SC to visit his South American sweetie, at public expense. Ross quotes Jonah Goldberg as saying, yes, it’s terrible when politicians do these things, naming, of course,…
Republican Reform, Douthat Style
It’s no secret that the Republican Party is going through an agonizing reappraisal of its policies. Well, the Elephant can stop worrying now, because Ross Douthat has it all figured out. Let’s start with domestic reform. What needs to be done? Ramesh Ponnuru, echoing though not quoting President Obama, says we have a healthcare spending…