Month: July 2010
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The political version of Green Lanternism
Jon Chait debunks a second species of presidential Green Lanternism at his TNR blog. Rather than asserting that the president’s failure to achieve a policy goal is a result of insufficient will, American Prospect co-editor Robert Kuttner suggests on the Huffington Post that Obama’s political problems are due to a lack of resolve to pursue
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Twitter roundup
From my Twitter feed: –Congressional oversimplification alert: “We could cut unemployment in half… by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers” -New version of Fox News junk chart — Edward Tufte sheds another tear (part one in the series) -Newsmax ruled out of Newsweek bidding — good news for journalism -Bob Herbert goes Green Lantern
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When qualitative punditry adds value
Sean Trende at Real Clear Politics objects to my post on Peggy Noonan’s mystical interpretations of presidential popularity and mounts a defense of non-quantitative punditry: Non-quantitative punditry has a huge place in our discourse for many reasons, including one that is directly applicable here… [T]he most applicable problem here is that there is always a