Ark. Republican Sen. Tom Cotton, well he don’t plant cotton, but he sure can harvest the long green. Over at the New York Times, Eric Lipton reports the following: The Emergency Committee for Israel, led by William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, spent $960,000 to support Mr. Cotton. In that same race, Paul…
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What Daniel Larison gets wrong about what Iran hawks get wrong
I find The American Conservative’s Daniel Larison to be indispensable reading. Dan never wearies in his pursuit of interventionist nonsense from both the right and left. His only problem, shockingly, is his overabundance of innocence. All too often, he really believes that the neo-cons, and their liberal interventionist counterparts, really believe what they say. A…
Who are the demeanor police?
Well, Jennifer Rubin, that’s who, who nails Jeb Bush for faulty demeanor—lack of “passion”, to be precise—for his limp-wristed takedown of aging Republican realist James Baker, or “the spawn of Beelzebub,” as Jennie likes to call him. We’re watching you, Jeb, we’re watching! Afterwords Previously, Jennie and other hawk-eyed right-wingers pummeled Rand Paul for not…
Cart before the horse
Daniel Larison has a post about Sen. Ron Johnson’s less than brilliant demand for military action against Iran. Dan remarks that “Iran hawks such as Johnson support preventive war against Iran because they are excessively afraid that Iran will eventually acquire nuclear weapons.” Actually, that’s backwards. It should run like this: “Iran hawks such as Johnson pretend…
Ukraine—It’s like catnip for neocons!
I’m not going to bother linking to any of the multitudinous stories ruminating about the meaning of Putin’s latest folly. I’m sure that William Kristol, Charles Krauthammer, et al. are fulminating at length over the Crimean Invasion. Putin is laughing at us! He’s eating our lunch! He is playing chess with tanks and we are…
Ross Douthat, in with a stand-up triple
I never seem to get tired of making fun of Ross Douthat, but on Ukraine the dude has really been pounding the ball, pointing out politely to his neocon confrères that it really doesn’t matter who runs Ukraine. Today he pretends to take neocon huffing and puffing about “grand strategy”* very seriously, letting Walter Russell…
RDH
It’s no secret that half the thinking done by the Republican Party is done by ringers, “designated hitters,”* a band of Asian-American and Jewish outsiders who have nothing in common with the white, Protestant or Catholic masses whom they serve. What’s even more fascinating is that most, though not all of these ringers are double…
DC sucks, says geezer
DC sucks, says geezer Andrew Ferguson, senior editor at the Weekly Standard, so much of a geezer, in fact, that he even has a white moustache to prove it. Ferguson holds forth on Reason TV with “Kennedy,”* seated on the lawn of his “beautiful McMansion” (Kennedy’s term), rapping about how the DC economy is largely…
Whole Iran Deal not a Big Deal, Experts Say
Yes, that whole Iran thing that everyone was so worried about, well, it’s not really a big deal, says NYTimer James Risen, in an article quoting both faceless and faced experts, politely stepping down all the sturm und drang that the Times has been peddling for the past year or so—quoting, of course, only the…
Danger! Danger! Truth Overload! Israeli General calls Iran “very rational”! AP reveals dreaded North Korean missiles are fakes!
It’s true! Leon “the North Koreans are coming!” Panetta and the entire AIPAC nation must be having heart attacks at this news. I’ll let Jodi Rudoren at the NYT handle the first one: “The Israeli military chief [the chief of staff of the Israeli Defense Force, Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz*] described the Iranian government as…