James Dwight has a few thoughts on Max Cleland:
Max Cleland has found a permanent role for himself in the American political scene. He has appointed himself the arbiter in charge of determining when a politician has become a victim. I see Max
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James Dwight has a few thoughts on Max Cleland:
Max Cleland has found a permanent role for himself in the American political scene. He has appointed himself the arbiter in charge of determining when a politician has become a victim. I see Max
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You have to admire the balls on these Democrats. They send crippled Max Cleland (always good for a photo-op) to the president’s ranch to deliver this letter (in .pdf) demanding that he ‘condemn’ the Swift Boat Vets and make them ‘cease and desist.’
Never mind that Bush does not control these men.
Never mind that the ad in question is not even running anymore.
Never mind that Bush has stated repeatedly that John Kerry should be proud of his record.
Never mind that the Vets say they will not listen to Bush.
Never mind that the vets themselves think Bush is an ’empty shirt.’ All of that pales in comparison to the audacity to include this paragraph:
Mr. President, as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, we believe you owe a special duty to America’s combat veterans when they are under false and scurrilous attacks. We hope you will recognize this duty, and speak out against this group and their efforts to smear the repuation of a man who has served this country nobly.
Three of the signatories are Fritz Hollings, ‘Vietnam Ace’ Tom Harkin, and Frank ‘Chickenhawk’ Lautenberg.
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When Bob Dole says “Bring it on,” he doesn’t duck and run:
Dole said he urged Kerry,
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The Slant-O-Meter has been updated.
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No Proof Of Collaboration:
Joe Sandler– lawyer for the DNC and a group running anti-Bush ads, MoveOn.org.
Neil Reiff– Deputy General Counsel for the Democratic National Committee, contact person for MoveOn.org’s 527 organization.
Robert Bauer– Kerry campaign lawyer, attorney for ACT, America Coming Together.
Proof of Collaboration:
Ben Ginsburg: chief outside counsel to the Bush campaign, advisor Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
No double standard here. Move along. Or shall we say, MoveOn?
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Mark Kleiman addresses an issue that has always puzzled me:
Florida authorities report a wave of price gouging in the wake of Hurricane Charley, and promise to enforce Florida’s anti-gouging laws.
Some of this is fairly straightfoward enforcement against bait-and-switch and false advertising, and raises no conceptual problems.
But from the viewpoint of orthodox economic analysis it’s hard to explain exactly why it’s wrong, in the wake of a disaster, for someone who has a limited amount of ice or gasoline or tarpaper to sell, and a large number of customers for it, to charge whatever the market will bear…
It’s not hard to come up with practical reasons to dislike price-gouging. Disasters call for, and in healthy societies elicit, altruism and solidarity, and price-gouging as a practice probably does something to suppress those valuable reactions. But some of that analysis also applies to other sorts of economic regulation that free-marketers are unequivocal in denouncing.
I can see both sides of the argument; my point here isn’t that anti-gouging laws are wrong, but that they ought to be controversial in a way they currently are not, at least among those who consider themselves principled advocates of laisser-faire.
Read the whole thing.
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