I hear there’s a theory that Twitter makes you stupid. That certainly seems to be the case with substack blogger Matthew Yglesias, who has written an excellent post and a stupid tweet on the Washington, DC city council’s rewrite of the District’s criminal code, passed over Mayor Muriel Bowser’s veto and now almost surely going…
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The Democratic Hole
Matthew Yglesias has a piece over at Vox that is deservedly getting some recognition: “Democrats are in denial. Their party is actually in deep trouble”. But while Matt talks a lot about the facts on the ground—deep weakness at the state level and in both house of Congress, with no obvious way out—he doesn’t talk…
American Blindness
Matt Yglesias has an article about our doomed American democracy that’s getting a lot of play on the Internet. I’m not sure I’ll bother with a comprehensive “reply,” since I’m more cranky than pessimistic these days, but I would like to call attention to a rather stunning flaw in a quote that Matt takes from…
Social Security: Why the Liberals Love it Too Much
Matt Yglesias has a nice column about the “indexing” debate—what formula should be used to adjust Social Security benefits in the face of inflation, basically saying that many liberals are getting upset over little: One disturbing trend since the emergence of a plan to cut Social Security benefits via the indexing of benefits to the…
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,…
Memo to Matt: Boehner may be bluffing, but so are the Democrats
Over at Slate, Matt Yglesias insists that President Obama doesn’t have to give an inch to House Speaker John Boehner on taxes in the upcoming fix everything we didn’t fix before lame-duck session. Because Republicans under Bush passed “temporary” tax cuts rather than permanent ones, and because those tax cuts are set to expire, Obama…