Wednesday, February 03, 2016
Tuesday, February 02, 2016
"Moderate Republicans"
They're basically people who the political press like personally. It has almost nothing to do with issues. Maybe a little bit with tone (only whistle so the dogs can hear!) but not issues.
The Left
In the United States, The Left is always childish, impractical, ignorant, silly, and unserious. Liberal solutions to liberal concerns have been taken off the table, replaced at best with conservative solutions to liberal concerns. Serious people know such compromises can get through Congress with a bunch of bipartisanyship, until, as always, Lucy pulls the football away. And even when conservative solutions are proposed (tax credits! insurance exchanges! incentives!), they're a Rube Goldberg mess that people have to fight for constantly.
In the richest country in the world (close enough), life shouldn't be so hard.
In the richest country in the world (close enough), life shouldn't be so hard.
Primary Hell
Most of the time Democrats have a "hack gap." For some reason that disappears in primary season.
Monday, February 01, 2016
GOP Savior
The one thing that I'm hoping will happen is that the Very Serious GOP Establishment (you know, rich people who think they're smarter than they are), make a desperate attempt to prop up an anti-Trump.
MITTENS!
...funny, also, too, frightening.
MITTENS!
...funny, also, too, frightening.
Both officials and donors within the powerful group hope the real estate tycoon's White House bid dies a natural death so the group can avoid spending a penny of its $889 million 2016 cycle budget against him. But the Koch network's conversations over the weekend concerning what to do about Trump were more detailed than previously revealed.
On the eve of the Iowa causes, Koch network officials revealed in a private meeting with donors that they had commissioned focus group research to identify Trump’s vulnerabilities.
Punditing
If Trump wins it'll be yuge.
Rubio just needs to come in 3rd, 4th, or 5th to get a big win.
Clinton loses if she wins, and loses big if she loses.
If Sanders wins we have to keep talking about him, if not let us never speak of him again.
Whatever happens it'll be excellent news for Chris Christie.
Rubio just needs to come in 3rd, 4th, or 5th to get a big win.
Clinton loses if she wins, and loses big if she loses.
If Sanders wins we have to keep talking about him, if not let us never speak of him again.
Whatever happens it'll be excellent news for Chris Christie.
Who Won't?
I guess it's part of the hangover from the weird 2008 primary, but I don't get this whole "all good Democrats must agree to vote for the Democrat in November no matter who the candidate is" thing which keeps being floated. It sounds very sober and serious but a) pretty sure people who give a shit will vote, and people who don't will not, as is always the case and b) your very serious and sober call for people to vote isn't going to convince anyone.
I'm probably just grumpy because I read too much of the internet and I see so much stuff which is neither designed to persuade nor rally, but is instead just about someone's need to be right on the internet and claim that other people are wrong on the internet.
I'm probably just grumpy because I read too much of the internet and I see so much stuff which is neither designed to persuade nor rally, but is instead just about someone's need to be right on the internet and claim that other people are wrong on the internet.
8000 Columns Later
I get that Robert Samuelson's pushes Fred Hiatt's agenda, but he has written the same column so many times that even Fred must get bored of it by now. And Robert (not the son of Paul) isn't even clever enough to come up with a new angle for the DEFICIT WILL KILL US ALL story.
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