Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

This fight is for everything.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Hell hath no fury like a farmer bankrupted.

Conservatism: there are people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

One lie, alone, tears the fabric of reality.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

In my day, never was longer.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

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  1. 1.

    beltane

    Sorry, but this is getting a little too close to McRidiculous’s famous pubic sector. I would touch this controversy with a ten foot pole.

  8. 8.

    dmsilev

    @Brachiator: Because her job description is basically to afflict the afflicted and comfort the comfortable. And that, she does reasonably well.

    It’s the only explanation that fits the facts.

    dms

  9. 9.

    Walker

    The recent DeLong/Krugman smackdown was beautiful. Especially when she came into DeLong’s comment section, got all indignant, and then got smacked down again.

  11. 11.

    Mark S.

    Most of the people who support the bill are something like 70:30 for the bill — it makes things better, but there’s a lot in there they’d like to be different. The bill’s opponents speak as if they’re closer to 100% against the bill: Everything is bad, it’ll destroy American health care, none of the cost controls will work, all the promises are lies, etc, etc.

    Shocking.

  12. 12.

    Nylund

    Doesn’t Megan personally know Ezra? Doesn’t she realize that he has a passion for this topic and has put more effort into researching this one topic alone than she has ever put into all her writings put together? He’s constantly reading reports, interviewing people, and attending seminars on the subject. Did she really think that, “cuz my hubby said so,” was going to be a convincing argument in his eyes?

  14. 14.

    Martin

    @Walker: Yeah, that was a pretty glorious comment thread.

    Between she and the teabaggers running for office who refuse to debate, I think we need a constitutional amendment that any statement in public is subject to a live defense. Hook it into Google or some such that pulls comments proportionate to how high they get ranked. A non-partisan commission would be responsible for the debate. Jon Stewart could be the first commissioner. Call it Amendment 1A – you’re free to say anything you want, but if enough people hear you, you’ll be required to defend that speech. It’s the public’s right to not be subjected to stupid.

  17. 17.

    Ash Can

    I can’t wait for her to start publicly arguing with Ezra about this, a.k.a. doubling down on the stupid. It’s always highly entertaining when she does that.

  18. 18.

    ricky

    Isn’t this yet another example of why legalized marriage between opposite sex columnists fails the transparency test?
    Unless there is more texting than pillow talking, of course.

  20. 20.

    Sentient Puddle

    @Calvin Jones and the 13th Apostle: This is hardly the first time Ezra called her out. Back when she wrote this long rambling piece about why she was opposed to health care, Ezra came in and basically said “Dude, this is bullshit” in the most polite way possible.

    There’s been others, but that one sticks out in my mind because for some crazy-ass reason, what Megan originally wrote was apparently widely disseminated amongst the conservative blogosphere.

  23. 23.

    ricky

    “Megan McArdle is the business and economics editor for The Atlantic. She has worked at three start-ups, a consulting firm, an investment bank, a disaster recovery firm at Ground Zero, and the Economist.”

    Official Atlantic Bio

    “Couldn’t hold a steady job before we hired her”

    ricky bio synopisis

  26. 26.

    mclaren

    To paraphrase one of the science bloggers, McArdle is so wrong she violates the Pauli Exclusion Principle and collapses into a whole new state of wrongness.

  27. 27.

    Marc

    She does come across as a perfect case for discussion in the Daily Show contest: Stupid or Evil?

    John, she had to look up what idiot meant on Google. And she still got it wrong! Dumber than a box of rocks, I say.

    No John, it’s a front. She is doing the bidding of her masters, who are carefully delegating propagandists to cover every slice of the opinion market. Pure evil!

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