One explanation for why people who advocate transparently idiotic policies that result in national disasters (the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, our current health care system, our drug laws, our prisons, our current financial crisis) generally don't lose their pundit credentials is that what gets you fired isn't being wrong: it's being perceived to be wrong while bucking the conventional wisdom. Indeed...
Tim F. gets the prize for best summation of Republican health care obstructionism in the House: Reviewing Republican behavior during the Health Care Reform debate on Saturday, you would think an militant band of spoiled toddlers with Tourette’s had occupied the right half of the House . Or howler monkeys . If it was not the most embarrassing display of bad behavior in recent government history,...
The moderate-liberal columnist writes about Democratic reaction to the results of last week's special elections : "Democrats took it on the chin in this year's off-off-year gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey. Since those are two states that President Barack Obama won last year, vulnerable Democratic lawmakers in next year's elections are feeling as nervous as Glenn Beck at an ACORN...
The Spectator UK/Alex MassieCharles Krauthammer’s Crazy, Lazy Complacency Charles Krauthammer isn’t as reliably and consistently wrong as Bill Kristol, but he’s also determined to see the sun shining for Republicans. Thus: The Obama coattails of 2008 are gone. The expansion of the electorate, the excitement of the young, came in uniquely propitious Democratic circumstances and amid...
Matthew Continetti's editorial in last week's issue of the Weekly Standard --"The Inevitability Myth: Health care reform is not a fait accompli"--makes the case that, despite all evidence, health care reform may not be enacted after all. (Continetti does concede that "the chances of some sort of health bill passing, at some point, are by no means negligible." So he's telling us...
There is so much fucking shit that I see every MOTHER FUCKING DAY, that I am burnt out. Seriously. These fucking asshole Republicans are going out of their way to trick fuck anyone not in their personal circle, that I wish I could get all the way across this country in one day and have a personal chat with these fucking assholes.It would be a short conversation. You have got to be fucking kidding me,...
DOWNLOADS: (90) PLAYS: (171) From the great mind that brought us both Sarah Palin and Dan Quayle, Bill Kristol first does his best to build up what electoral successes in Virginia and New Jersey might mean for the Republicans in 2010, even though he claims that’s not what he’s doing. Republicans managing to pick up a Governor’s seat in Virginia or having an unpopular Governor in...
DOWNLOADS: (75) PLAYS: (197) A gaffe, Michael Kinsley famously mused, is what results when a politician inadvertently tells the truth. And so it was Monday when Utah Republican Senator Orrin Hatch came clean about his party's scorched-earth opposition to health care reform being championed by President Obama and Congressional Democrats. Hatch acknowledged , as I've long argued , that the GOP is worried...
There's a new anti-healthcare reform talking point stalking the USA. That the swine flu vaccine experience proves that a government run healthcare system can't work. This meme was working around the blogosphere in the last couple of weeks and hits the big time today -- Bill Kristol : After all, we're seeing a big government health care program in operation right now--the Obama administration's effort...
Washington Post columnist Bill Kristol on the split in the GOP: Now, obviously, there are times when divisions in parties can be damaging. But what's happening in the GOP right now looks to me more like healthy turmoil than destructive recklessness, more like vigorous competition than bitter fratricide. It could get out of hand. But for now, the ideas are more Reaganite than Buchananite, and the spirit...
Queue in Baltimore (Baltimore Sun photo) Bill Kristol suggests, if you want to see ObamaCare in action, just look at how well the federal government is doing passing out Flu vaccine right now. With Barack Obama as her front man, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—the real power in the Democratic party—has gone Clinton and Gingrich one better. Clinton [...]
DOWNLOADS: (41) PLAYS: (39) From Fox News Sunday, Bill Kristol is hoping that people will see the lines for H1N1 vaccines and come to the conclusion that the government can't run anything properly. As Juan Williams points out, that's what happens when you have Republicans who don't believe in government running things and don't want government to work as we saw in George's Bush's complete indifference...
The NY Times’s Frank Rich is freaking out over the people he calls “Stalinists of the right,” a funny comment from a pro-Stalin guy like Frank. Rich conglomerates everyone he hates into one category that includes neocons Bill Kristol and the Club for Growth, with the anti-neocon Birch Society and Pat Buchanan. But his hysteria [...]
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