The GOP strategy for achieving its already media-trumpeted 2010 landslide is shaping up, and it has to be admired for its sheer audacity, as well as its desperate but hardly unwarranted reliance on the media continuing to be as stupid as it was throughout the Bush years. Richard Cohen, David Broder, and David Gregory are [...]
I got home today, and as I usually do, popped into Glenn Greenwald at Salon, to see if he’d gotten all Greenwaldian and put up another post while I was at work, knowing that if he hadn’t, the letters would have poured in since 6:00am and it could take a whole bottle of something to [...]
I thought that an important element of any political discourse in the peculiar political environment in which we find ourselves would be the identification, and dissection, of right-wing talking points. Each day, a fresh set is trotted out to distract from what is actually happening, and everyone from Rush Limbaugh to Shooter242 repeat them by [...]
