Or a sycophant. Andrew Sullivan, whom I often like, runs off the rails in his devotion to President Obama here, praising his indiscriminate use of murder drones and claiming that if the U.S. doesn’t function like an intermational Murder, Inc., well, would you prefer “religious terrorists from mountains in Middle Asia successfully invading and terrorizing…
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The Revolting Realists
Last week the New York Times ran an article with the headline “Some G.O.P. Foreign Policy Experts Are Tepid on Romney,” pointing out that aging stalwarts Henry Kissinger, Brent Scowcroft, and Colin Powell have not been falling all over themselves to endorse the Mitt-Man. And Kissinger himself, always the voice of calculation if not reason,…
Brad DeLong: When smart people get lazy
Brad DeLong has a long post up at his website, entitled “Is American Democracy Broken?”, expressing his frustration with the state of these United States. I share many of his sentiments, but near the end, he provides a list of bullets summing up “the things that make me mad” (my phrase, not his) and I…
The growing inequality: Does anybody care?
99% versus 1%? Who doesn’t like those odds? It’s a well-established fact that, since 1979, American productivity has been steadily rising, but median compensation hasn’t been. (See Lawrence Mishal’s excellent new article here) Rather fortuitously, Bain boy and Romney protégé Edward Conrad is coming out with a book, Unintended Consequences: Why Everything You’ve Been Told…
Inside of (some) neoliberals there is a socialist struggling to get out
I’m a big fan of Brad DeLong’s “Grasping Reality” blog. Brad is a liberal neoliberal’s liberal neoliberal. He knows a great deal about economic history, and knows that it was capitalism, and nothing else, that turned western civilization from a good deal for the top 10 percent into a good deal for potentially everyone. At…
The fluke of Fluke
It would be easy to criticize the recent testimony of Georgetown Law School student Sandra Fluke.* Is it really true that “Forty percent of the female students at Georgetown Law report struggling financially” because the school’s health insurance doesn’t cover birth control? I guess she means, 40 percent say it costs them money. Does birth…
Obama to Netanyahu: Don’t attack Iran! Let me do it for you!
Yes, that’s the plan of our president, Barack “The Republicans can’t paint me in a corner if I do it first!” Obama, promising that he can harass, and bully, and humiliate a nation of 70 million people into doing exactly what he wants them to do, shutting his eyes to the fact that he will…
Larry Lindsey, looking for work?
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Lawrence Lindsey, briefly director of the National Economic Council under George Bush, goes ballistic on Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner for saying that wealthy Americans should be willing to pay higher taxes for the “privilege of being an American.” According to Larry, “Mr. Geithner’s argument highlights an unfortunate and very…
Obama Wins One
Was it all a plot? And, if so, who was plotting whom? A couple of weeks ago, the New York Times was telling us that the Catholic Church, scenting from afar that the Obama Administration was likely to announce a policy requiring religiously affiliated universities and hospitals to cover birth control costs in their employees’…
Rick Santorum, God’s gift to pundits
Thank God for Rick Santorum! Just when the punditocracy was reduced to writing articles about pundits writing articles about pundits so desperate for something to write about that they will pretend that someone other than Borin’ George Romney* could win the Republican nomination, the two-term, lost by 18 points the second time around former Senator…