Was this best political convention of my lifetime? Almost certainly; not only was the roster of spectacular speakers unbelievably rich, bu whoever assembled the order respected the themes of the speech with a subtle and almost literary elegance. Invoking Ted Kennedy near the beginning of the proceedings Tuesday was a brilliant stroke. Summoning the ancients …
. . .so far, anyway, has appeared in The American Conservative. It is called “Revolt of the Rich,”and it is by by Mike Lofgren, who spent 16 years as a Republican staffer on House and Senate Budget Committees. In the article, he makes a case that very few other Republicans are willing to advocate: not …
For as much as I like President Obama, I’m afraid the Bill Clinton is the still the Big Dog of the Democratic Party. When he takes the stage at the convention in Charlotte on Thursday, I hope he comes in like Buford Pusser in Walking Tall, carrying a 2×4 and ready to set the record …
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>The Economist is a pretty conservative magazine, but their cover this week hits the mark. “One question, Mr. President,” it reads, “just what would you do with another four years?” with the passage of the stimulus (shoulda gone farther), health care reform (shoulda gone farther), Dodd-Frank (shoulda gone really farther), getting out of Iraq (we …
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On Morning Joe today, Chris Matthews, a bulldozer on most days, completely demolishes GOP Party chairman Reince Priebus. “That cheap shot about ‘I don’t have a problem with my birth certificate’ was awful,” Matthews said of GOP hopeful Mitt Romney’s Friday embrace of the birther notion that President Barack Obama was not born in the …
Roger Stone, the notorious Republican operative and author of some most of the underhanded political tactics of the last four decades, is not a source normally to be trusted. However, when he says he smells a rat, only a fool doesn’t think it’s time to lock up the camenbert. Currently on his blog, Stone has …
Choice is a word frequently heard among top Republicans these days (but no, not in the abortion context.) Mitt Romney has been saying “We offer America a choice.” Paul Ryan has said “We owe the country a choice of two futures, so that the American people can decide what kind of America they want; what …
President Obama turns 51 today, and is celebrating with a round of golf. When he hits the links today, he can do so with confidence that he is very likely to be holding the same job when he turns 55. In The Daily Beast today, Michael Tomasky writes something that I have long suspected (and …
Here’s my latest at newyorker.com: “[President Obama] is the most ill-prepared person to assume the presidency in my lifetime. This is a guy who literally is walking around in a dark room trying to find the light switch of leadership.” –Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey, at a Republican dinner in Lexington, Kentucky. New Items …
I must say I kind of love this painting by Alex Schaefer, a Los Angeles artist. I really appreciate this peacefully anarchic protest. According to the website at Hive Gallery, where this and other paintings in this series are being exhibited, “Alex wants us to “get over our apathy”…to let the regulators, economists, bankers know …