O rare Dan Drezner!1 Oy vey, Dan Drezner! Just last week I was falling all over myself with praise for Dan’s all too acute post The war in Ukraine is going badly for everyone, which Dan then followed up with another depressingly acute corker, What is the plan behind sanctioning Russia?, pointing out that the…
Tag: Ukraine
Moral, moral, who’s got a moral? Well, Daniel Drezner has one, and I think it’s depressingly accurate.
I so often disagree with Dan that I sometimes try to apologize for it, but his recent post, The war in Ukraine is going badly for everyone, is depressingly spot on. Dan ends his incisive piece with the following grim paragraphs: We have entered a new Cold War, which is not something I say lightly….
Mitt Romney wasn’t “right” about Ukraine. George Kennan was.
What goes around comes around. Or is it the other way around? In either case, I’m talking about bullshit. The latest in recirculated manure comes from Chris Cillizza, writing at Newsweek, It’s time to admit it: Mitt Romney was right about Russia. Back in 2012, the Mittster opined that “Russia, this is, without question, our…
Is Joe Biden playing four-dimensional chess in Ukraine?
Well, probably not, but it does look like he’s got a nice three-carom billiard shot at home, bouncing Vladimir Putin off of both Tucker Carlson and Mitch McConnell as a way of exacerbating the friction between the True-Trumpers like Tucker and the “Why Won’t He JUST FUCKING DIE ALREADY!” crowd headed by Mitch himself. If…
Thanks, Jen Psaki, for making me embarrassed to be a Democrat
I recently recommended that Ilya Shapiro, scheduled to become executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Constitutional Studies, be given a week or two, probably sans pay, to think over the advisability of the executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Constitutional Studies talkin’ smack every time a Democratic president makes a Supreme…
Political Notes from All Over
Turnout, Turnout, Turnout! Why Democrats love it and Republicans hate it. Ruy Teixeira, a Democratic political centrist after my own heart, has a post up at his Substack blog, The Liberal Patriot, How Not to Build a Coalition, arguing, correctly, in my opinion, “High turnout is just not the magic key to Democratic victories the…
Terrible Dan Drezner. Terrible Dan Drezner!
Hey, I promised, and a blogger always keeps his word—well, within the limits of reason, of course. And, anyway, Dan is at his terrible worst in this one—his terribleist, one might say—in an abysmal missive abysmally titled The progressive case against NATO is weird. When a pundit, particularly a scholarly one such as Dan, uses…
Yes, Impeachment Was TOTALLY Worth It!
Damn straight it was. There will be some handwringing and pontificating—because, you know, pundits gotta pundit—but the fact is Trump’s actions were deserving impeachment and conviction many times over. The “good arguments on both sides” folks are just covering ass,1 and you know who you are, and you know where you’re going, which is not…
Shorter Ben Shapiro: “They call me Mr. Miasma”
Ben Shapio has a curious piece up at the National Review, “The Two Theories of Trump’s Actions in the Ukraine Affair”, which I can only consider as an exercise in pre-emptive ass-covering. Shapiro, of course, has a reputation of being one of the hottest young conservative talking heads around—he’s bright, articulate, and quite capable of…
Yo, Eli Lake! It isn’t “treason” to criticize the President! It’s treason to criticize Donald Trump!
Eli Lake often reminds of a man who kisses ass for a living yet insists on complaining about the farts. Eli gets paid by Michael Bloomberg to be, basically, the voice of the Likud, relentlessly advocating a “firm” U.S. position on just about every aspect of foreign affairs, a “U.S. and Israel against the world”…