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A non-“balanced” analysis of ISG report
Most news coverage of the Iraq Study Group report has been annoyingly reverential. To point out the obvious, the fact that the group is bipartisan does not give it a monopoly on wisdom. Its work must ultimately be judged by the content of its recommendations, not the process by which it was written. (Related question:
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NYT screws up impeachment process
It’s shocking how many people still don’t understand the impeachment process only a few years after we went through it with President Clinton. The New York Times was forced to run a correction of a correction today after botching its explanation of the removal of Alcee Hastings from the federal bench — here are the
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NY Post “Surrender Monkeys” cover
Via Drudge, a classy New York Post cover headline that equates the Iraq Study Group’s cautious plan for a phased withdrawal from Iraq with surrender: It’s no “Headless body in topless bar”, but ridiculous nonetheless.
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Dick Morris is a joke: Third party edition
Since resigning in embarrassment from the Clinton White House, Dick Morris has become a national joke. This passage from an American Spectator article makes me cringe — it combines Morris’s unrealistic third-party boosterism with his desperation to get quoted: The Lieberman victory bode well for a third party, triangulation master Dick Morris said in an
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The problem with Mitt Romney’s advisers
Writing on Tapped a few days ago, Ezra Klein gave credit to Mitt Romney for signing up Greg Mankiw and Glenn Hubbard, two top-ranked economists, as his economic advisers: I don’t know how this process works, but Mitt Romney has named his two primary economic advisors for the 2008 campaign, and, to his credit, they’re
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Nancy Pelosi’s second PAC
Ethan Wallison, a former Roll Call reporter, describes an astonishingly stupid move by Nancy Pelosi’s political team when he covered her in Congress: At one point, it seems to have occurred to Pelosi and her associates that she could double the amount of money she raised – and thus double the amount she gave –
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Bush’s love of “Democrat Party”
Even as he praised the bipartisanship of the Iraq Study Group report today, President Bush seemed to derisively refer to his opponents as the “Democrat Party” — here’s the CQ transcript: The country, in my judgment, is tired of pure political bickering that happens in Washington. And they understand that on this important issue of
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Baltimore station runs fake Richards story
Weep for the state of TV journalism. My friend and former Spinsanity co-editor Ben Fritz runs a satirical website called Dateline Hollywood. This week they ran an obviously fake article titled “Michael Richards apologizes for blackface roast appearance” that the Baltimore CBS affiliate ran as “breaking news” twice yesterday. Here’s the item on it from
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Kennedy neglects changing demographics
A sharp letter to the editor in this month’s issue of The Atlantic catches historian David Kennedy making a common demographic error: In the excerpts from the Aspen Ideas Festival (October Atlantic), the historian David M. Kennedy is quoted as follows: “Another asymmetry of very troubling proportions, it seems to me, is [in] the nature
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Rahm Emanuel anti-GOP “cut and run” rhetoric
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the chair of the House Democratic Caucus, is quoted in the New York Times today trying to throw “cut and run” jargon back at Republicans: The resistance to finishing the appropriations bills is not going over well with Democrats, who have accused Republicans of acting irresponsibly. The unfinished business could also prove