Some movement with the GM bondholders: As General Motors moved closer to a bankruptcy filing, possibly early next week, attention on Thursday turned again to the bondholders, the most important group that the company has yet to win over for its efforts to start fresh. Early Thursday, G.M. proposed a deal in which bondholders would …
Archives for May 2009
Mounds of Nonsense
Turley: The debate over Judge Sonia Sotomayor continues to rage this week. What is remarkable is how much is being said and how little substance can be found in the coverage. One would think that the law of averages alone would guarantee that some substantive points would be hit, if only by accident. It is …
Before You Abuse, Criticize, and Accuse
Building on DougJ’s post about Lanny Davis reciting nonsensical right-wing talking points, the whole silliness of the empathy outrage has really been pretty funny. Aside from the fact that archives show both Samuel Alito and George H. W. Bush waxing eloquent about the benefits of empathy, the notion that you can take Obama’s appeal for …
Oh, Lanny
Sic semper from Fox contributors: Some Democrats and political analysts are urging the White House to shift course and concede that Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor made an error when she suggested in 2001 that Hispanic women would make better judges than white men. “She misspoke,” said Lanny Davis, a White House lawyer and spokesman …
Tragically Unhip
I suppose I am dating myself, but I honest-to-goodness remember a time when Dennis Miller was actually kind of funny: Of course, that was a really long time ago. (via)
Open Thread
I had dijon mustard on my sandwich for lunch, and it was delicious. I also felt a strange urge to read Chomsky afterwards.
We’re On a Road to Nowhere
This is what punditry looks like on autopilot: In the case of the Sotomayor appointment, while she’s likely to coast through the Senate given the Democrats’ sheer numbers, the American public needs to understand why this is such a radical pick. The Obama/Sotomayor idea that judges, instead of making impartial rulings based on the law …