I’m sure this is going to give Dan Senor and the idiots at the Weekly Standard an aneurysm, but tell me how this is the wrong position for the President of the United States to take: Obama, interviewed for Sunday’s edition of “60 Minutes” on broadcaster CBS, said he understands and agrees with Netanyahu’s insistence …
The worst are full of passionate intensity
I admit to having a bit of a weakness for Maureen Dowd (there’s something film noir about her), even though her columns are usually awful. Anyway, she seems to be first major establishment person to note that Romney has gone full metal neocon (Eli Lake noted a ways back that Ryan is a neocon on …
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Late Night Open Thread
I’m depressed. I mean it. I’m just fucking depressed. Not about life in general, as my life and my family and my dogs and my friends are all fine, but I’m just depressed at how fucking stupid everything is these days. This is the dumbest, most venal, most ridiculous campaign season I remember living through. …
Fool for a client
The more I think about it, the more I think Romney fucked up big time when he chose Ryan. It’s true that one way or another, the Ryan budget was going to come up — the Obama campaign is too smart not to bring it up — and that a last minute push on the …
Never Enough War For Mr. Campbell Brown
Neocon hack Dan Senor, who is best known for bungling the Iraqi occupation under Bush, bangs the war drum: One of Mitt Romney’s top foreign policy advisors said Sunday that as president, Romney would respect Israel’s right to strike Iran to unilaterally prevent that nation from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Dan Senor told reporters that …
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The Next Middle East Disaster
When we block this: The Palestinian president announced Friday that he would seek recognition of a Palestinian state at the Security Council of the United Nations next week, a move strongly opposed by Israel and the United States and adding significant tension to one of the most intractable conflicts in the Middle East. *** The …
Quantitative easing and counterindicators
I remember reading about the idea of pundits as “counterindicators” (evidence in favor of the opposite of whatever they were saying) a few years ago, and I’ve been fascinated ever since. I’m sure this isn’t truly statistically significant, but a study showed that pundits did worse than random at predicting future outcomes (less than 33% …
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