While I’m traveling for the holidays, here are some short items from my Twitter feed (which you should follow!):
-TNR’s Jon Chait on the triumph that the health care bill represents.
-It’s absurd for Karl Rove to mock Dem. hopes for a “40-year majority” after what he said back in 2000.
-Matthew Yglesias notes questions about the sustainability of health care reform if it’s passed on a party-line vote, but the most relevant political science study finds no evidence that the number of minority votes matters.
-Brilliant Ronald Brownstein column on Howard Dean and health reform.
–The ultimate critique of The Phantom Menace (note: mixed with strange and off-color comedy bits).
-The Huffington Post’s “mullet strategy”.
-“Three Myths about Political Independents” — GWU’s John Sides educates pundits about early 1990s political science.
–Arbitraging coins for frequent flier miles (via MR).
-Bill Clinton has some seriously middlebrow taste — David Brooks, Tom Friedman, and Malcolm Gladwell as best thinkers of the year? Really? It’s like the airport bookstore Pulitzers!