Megan McArdle, who once gave herself the Randian if not randy moniker of “Jane Galt,” now presents herself as a shockingly blasé Washington insider, a realist who knows that “real change” in DC is impossible, because what’s real in Washington is compromise: “Everything you do in Washington is a compromise. There are a lot of…
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Megan McArdle, so not one for bending over
In a recent post, Megan McArdle, rapping, not too sympathetically, on the recent attempt to organize Wal-Mart, which, I suspect, will not amount to much, offers the following remark: Recessions are also a time when employers don’t necessarily have a lot of profits to give up. Walmart’s $446 billion of revenue last year was eye-popping,…
Uniquely bad, though better than all the rest
“Mitt Romney was a uniquely bad candidate for 2012. The best of a very weak field. … Obama could hardly have had a better opponent if he had ordered him from central casting”—Megan McArdle, explaining why Obama shouldn’t have won, even though he did.
And what do they know about it?
“The only group that majority-identifies as “Pro Choice” is women of childbearing age”—Megan McArdle, explaining why Democrats don’t own the future.
Megan McArdle can’t read. And she’s stupid.
A dude named Eric McGhee who runs a blog called “The Monkey Cage” is running a piece called “Did Controversial Roll Call Votes Doom the Democrats?” McGhee analyses the impact of votes on four “controversial” bills—health care reform, the economic stimulus, cap and trade, and TARP*—on the fortunes of congressional Democrats in the recent election….
Megan McArdle advocates death panels
Death panels of one, to be precise. Here’s her entire post on the subject: I’m probably going to have a lot of thoughts about this Atul Gawande piece on hospice care [in the New Yorker], but here’s a slightly off the wall question: how much better off are patients now that doctors don’t lie to…
The bad news is that the bank is foreclosing; the really bad news is that Megan McArdle is writing an article about you
Poor Edmund Andrews, a once-happy economics reporter for the New York Times. Not so long ago, Ed went through a mid-life crisis, divorcing (expensively) his first wife and re-marrying. Despite a settlement that effectively cut his take-home pay in half, and despite a new wife whose money-management skills, and her work ethic, both seemed dubious,…