I mostly stopped reading the Daily Dish about a month ago when Conor Clarke and Conor Friedersdorf took over for a half-week or so. Suddenly, instead of short diatribes about Sarah Palin and random scatter plots from Pollster.com inexplicably titled “Reality Check”, we were subjected to multi-paragraph treatises on stuff like dating strategies and what …
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Don’t make it Santorum time
Rick Santorum will never be president of the United States. He won’t ever be the Republican nominee for president. The fact that Halperin and Politico are wasting time talking about him just shows that, to paraphrase David Plouffe, if Halperin and Politico think it’s important, then it’s not important. To be completely fair, Halperin’s piece …
David Frum States the Obvious
David Frum states what should be clear to everyone- yes, certain folks on the right are going to whip some people into such a froth they do unspeakable things. BTW- did anyone happen to be recording CNN this morning? There was an exchange between Rick Sanchez and Cindy Crowley some time between 9 and 9:15 …
And truth shall have no dominion
Steve Benen on the debate over health care reform: But what does this tell us about the political process? I suspect the moral of the story is pretty straightforward: it pays to lie, blatantly and repeatedly, when launching a campaign against a policy initiative. If proponents ignore your bogus claims, they go uncontested, making it …
Stopped clock
Where is the real David Broder and what have you done with him? As I later wrote, the Johnsons “were engulfed by the crowd, and for more than half an hour, were reviled and jostled as they slowly made their way across the lobby. Johnson refused offers of police assistance, telling an aide that ‘if …
Tea bags and hard hats
Boomer pundits, like Ruth Marcus and Maureen Dowd, seem inclined to think that the town hall tea-ruptions bode ill for Obama. Younger pundits, like Ambinder (who is actually on target for once), seem to think differently: President Obama is on his way to Portsmouth, New Hampshire at this hour for a town hall meeting on …
Even the liberal Washington Post
Remember John Solomon’s brief, fiery ride at the Post? In one email to a Department of Justice spokesperson, Solomon even appears to be suggesting what spin to apply in order to minimize damage from the revelations. “Thanks for any help you can give on this,” Solomon wrote to Brian Roehrkasse on the morning of March …