Month: April 2007
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Joe Biden: Everything is GOP’s fault
Via Jason Zengerle at The Plank, Joe Biden is blaming Republicans for, well, just about everything: I would argue, since 1994 with the Gingrich revolution, just take a look at Iraq, Venezuela, Katrina, what’s gone down at Virginia Tech, Darfur, Imus. Take a look. This didn’t happen accidentally, all these things. You can argue that
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Pete Hoekstra: Not so bright
My nomination for the most inane response to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s statement that he believes the war in Iraq is “lost”: Representative Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican, said: “If Harry Reid believes that this war is lost, where is his plan to win this war?” What part of “lost” does Hoekstra not understand?
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Misleading report on Dartmouth blog panel
I didn’t think what I said during the Dartmouth blog panel was hard to parse, but the Manchester Union-Leader managed to completely screw it up. First, here’s the Dartmouth newspaper’s report, which is accurate: Brendan Nyhan, who started the non-partisan blog Spinsanity, disagreed that much had changed. “There is really a paradox to blogging,” Nyhan
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Fred Thompson: Supply-sider
How do you know Fred Thompson is going to run for president? Like Rudy Giuliani and John McCain, Thompson is endorsing the false claim that tax cuts increase revenue. Check out how many times he hits the talking point in this Wall Street Journal op-ed (italics mine): The results of the experiment that began when
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Rove: Osama started the war in Iraq
Via Ezra Klein and Think Progress, Karl Rove tried to resuscitate the old tactic of associating the Iraq war with 9/11 in Ohio yesterday. Luckily, the Akron Beacon Journal gave him the smackdown: In a question-and-answer period after his speech, Rove was asked whose idea it was to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq. “I
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Giuliani: Divine guidance in Bush election
Did you remember that Rudy Giuliani said in December 2001 that “there was some divine guidance in the president being elected”? I didn’t. Guess it’s time to add him to the long list of people who lost their minds after 9/11…
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Dartmouth panel report
The panel went, well, fine. It was surprisingly non-controversial. Talking about how and why people blog sometimes feels like navel-gazing to me, but the audience seemed interested and my fellow panelists were all very friendly. Most importantly, I did manage to work in one of the highlights of my blog career — a silly post
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Heading to Dartmouth
Tomorrow morning I head north for the panel on blogs at Dartmouth that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago — hope you’ll stop by if you’re in the area: “Mass Communication for the Masses: The Power of Weblogs” THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2007 4:30 PM – 3 Rockefeller Hall Panelists will share their thoughts on
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Hillary Clinton: Not so electable in 2008
I’ve been blogging about Hillary Clinton’s weak general election prospects for a couple of years. But I never expected her to tank this early. Check out these numbers: As the early stage of the race for president heats up, support for Sen. Hillary Clinton appears to be cooling. A majority of Americans now have an
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Obama’s strained Virginia Tech metaphor
Let me join Mickey Kaus and Isaac Chotiner in hating on Barack Obama’s strained attempt to link the massacre at Virginia Tech to other kinds of “violence” such as Don Imus’s racial slur: Obama said the killings were “the act of a madman on some level,” and later noted “maybe nothing could have been done