Month: April 2010

Crist to Join Lieberman Party – Maybe

If Chris Cillizza says it’s so, it must be true: Florida Gov. Charlie Crist (R) will announce his future political plans today, a decision widely reported — by the Fix among many others — to be a stepping-away...

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Squares

I occasionally run into nice white men who think George Will makes an inordinate amount of sense. It’s a strange malady, but it can mostly be explained by their conventional success and isolated existence. They did what...

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Who ‘they’ are; where they’re taking us

Thanks to the Daily Howler for pointing out the perfect portrait of the U.S. media/political elite, i.e., the ‘they’ that is the enemy of the rest of us: NYT’s Mark Leibovich: On a recent Friday night, a couple...

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GOP Caves

I hear several reports that the Republicans will cave on their Wall Street reform obstruction. There is some talk that a concession was made by the Democrats, but it’s not really clear WTF the Republicans are talking...

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Cashing in on Broken Dreams

For those of us trying desperately to wrap our heads around the Security and Exchange Commission’s allegations against Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street Journal’s recent article on the alleged fraud is a real...

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