When you’re a Super Committee, you can do whatever you damn please, right? Anything! And anything includes nothing, right? The null set! Which is just what the super committee set up by Congress a few months in a fit of “this time we mean business” fury seems ready to do. Over at Politico, which takes…
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Newt and the Neo-Cons, updated
Last week I noted that noted Likudist Jennifer Rubin has been industriously pissing on Newt Gingrich and every other Republican presidential candidate not addressed as “Mitt” and suggested that this was all a plot on Jennie’s part. Well, welcome Charles to the party, as in Krauthammer. Charles is a lot more subtle than Jennie. Instead…
You’re an expert on Russia, huh? Well, where is it?
“You know, I have had some great foreign policy conversations with Liz Cheney and with John Bolton, I mean, people who actually understand intimately where these countries are, why they think like they think.”—Rick Perry, on Sean Hannity.
DOJ: “Lying” is not lying: Misspeak = Meesespeak
UPDATED BELOW “If you’re innocent, you’re not a suspect,” Ed Meese once explained. So if you’re a suspect, you’re not innocent? Damn straight, according to Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, in a recent letter “explaining” the department’s clearly reluctant decision to not to issue regulations that would allow federal government agencies to deny Freedom of…
How much is that in Friedman units?
Thus sayeth the ‘stache: “Last week, I toured the great Mogul compound of Fatehpur Sikri, near the Taj Mahal. My Indian guide mentioned in passing that in the late 1500s, when Afghanistan was part of India and the Mogul Empire, the Iranian Persians invaded Afghanistan in an effort to ‘seize the towns of Herat and…
What is George’s game?
On Monday, I sneered at George Will’s sneering takedown of Mitt Romney. In the couse of his tirade, George also dealt President Obama a glancing sneer, dismissing him as a “floundering naïf,” though I think “bloodthirsty” might have been a more appropriate adjective.* Well, if George hates Mitt, and hates Obama, who does he want…
Condispeak: I’m not being condescending, I’m just reminding you that I hold your future, and your testicles, in the palm of my hand
In a recent interview, Condoleezza Rice discussed one of the many snags in her problematic relationship with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, aka “Mr. Asshole”: “he said something about my being ‘bright.’ And it just bugged me. It’s just one of those words that you don’t use about a colleague.” According to Condi, “I use…
George Will, hittin’ on Mitt
George Will—that’s George F. Will to you, pretty boy—has been getting a lot of mileage out of this column, making fun of Mitt Romney, for not knowing whether he thinks ethanol subsidies are a good idea or not. Well, I’m sorry. Making fun of a politician with presidential aspirations for not knowing whether he likes…
The New Inequality: 1) It’s growing 2) Does anyone care?
The new report from the Congressional Budget Office on Trends in the Distribution of Household Income Between 1979 and 2007 is causing a fair amount of heartburn on the right. Apparently, the news that the folks at the top of the pole (the top 1 percent) more than doubled their share of the nation’s income,…
Rummy’s head revisited
Yesterday I had to eat a little crow after, well, after I crowed over the fact that Donny’s Little Hideaway, aka the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, was going to be abandoned now that all U.S. troops are being pulled out of Iraq, when, in fact, it’s being expanded, at least in terms of staff. I…