Atrios said something exactly right yesterday : The media is basically letting all opponents of health care say whatever the hell they want about health care reform with little pushback. I don't know why I continue to be surprised when this happens, but I do... It's always good news for Republicans. And you know what else is? The fact that in Great Britain they actually have an occasional press attempt...
......and in other news, Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol , Rush Limbaugh, Karl Rove and Anne Coulter remained unscathed today as thousands of really decent people met untimely deaths across the planet. Coming up: Scientists categorically disprove concept of "Karma".
Commentary By Ron Beasley I have said for years that the best way to end foreign misadventures like Iraq and Afghanistan was to make the millionaire pundits and neocons pay for them. Let's see how enthusiastic Bill Kristol and Fred Barnes are when their wars are being paid for by them. So they want to wage war in Afghanistan? Carl...
Daniel Larison, in response to Bill Kristol's suggestion that Palin campaign for McCain in the Arizona Senate primary, writes: Were she to side openly with McCain in a primary against ...
Bill Kristol, who gets substantially more wrong than he gets right but shamelessly plunges ahead, is predicting that Sarah Palin will campaign for John McCain next year in the already hotly contested Arizona Republican senatorial primary even though his challenger's views are more closely aligned with the Quitter From Wasilla.
Mr. Wrong About Everything, Bill Kristol, signs his political death certificate: The new Rasmussen poll for the 2010 Arizona GOP Primary—John McCain 45%, J. D. Hayworth 43%—will generate a fair amount of buzz. But August is a long way away, and I assume that when McCain gets back to Arizona and campaigns, he’ll pull it out. I [...]
Of course, Glenn leaves Bill Kristol’s pressed sawdust in, well, sawdust. He also strengthens my resolve never to use “terrorist” in a Bush-Obama sense. After all, what are “terrorists” except wagers of guerrilla, i.e., non-state, warfare? Sometimes, guerrillas engage in just war and use just tactics, sometimes they do neither, and sometimes it’s one or [...]
... or, what Republican opponents of health care reform really believe, deep down--once we get past the cynical demagoguery about " death panels " and the pseudo-concern about "pulling the plug on Grandma". I happened to be reminded today of this exchange between Senators Jon Kyl of Arizona and Debbie Stabenow of Michigan (on September 25, 2009), which I thought at the time was...
President Obama said that he expects Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the others to be convicted and executed. In an interview with NBC News, Obama said those offended by the legal privileges given to Mohammed by virtue of getting a civilian trial rather than a military tribunal won't find it "offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him." Obama quickly added...
The Great Orange One calls out the Wingers on the KSM trial in New York. American liberals are tough on terrorists and secure in their knowledge that the Sept. 11 conspirators are guilty of mass murder. American conservatives are timid cowards who fear that the U.S. government can’t actually prove that the Sept. 11 killers committed their heinous crimes. Sound weird? Maybe. But what else can...
Bill Kristol's cabana boy, Matthew Continetti, is all over the place this week strewing rose petals before the mukluks of the Alaska almost-writer lady.
By Michael J.W. Stickings Sometimes Andrew Sullivan is simply on fire -- as he is here, getting to the root cause of the whole Palin phenomenon : The WSJ and TWS have long ago lost any intellectual credibility. They use sophism to maintain power. Their cynicism and/or denial mechanisms are deeper than most mortals can imagine. We knew that about a charlatan like Kristol and a nihilist like Rove. But...
For the past several weeks, the usual suspects have been attacking President Obama for not making a decision on troop levels in Afghanistan quickly enough for their warmongering taste. And despite the fact that whatever the ultimate decision is, additional troops won't be deployed until next spring, they continue to insist that a decision must be made now. Here are just a few examples from the WMD-mushroom...
The Nation 's Ari Melber notes that Yuval Levin, formerly an aide in George W. Bush's domestic policy shop, is Newsweek 's editor of national affairs, in which position he has written that liberals must "pull back to the center--or suffer the consequences." And warned of "Obama fatigue." And suggested the stimulus package passed earlier this year should have contained a "meaningful...
On Monday's Countdown show, MSNBC host Keith Olbermann, presumably picking up on a posting by the far left ThinkProgress.org -- one of his regular sources of information to attack conservatives -- made the arguably inaccurate claim that FNC political analyst Bill Kristol had on the Thursday, November 12, Special Report with Bret Baier on FNC, called for Fort Hood gunman Nidal Hasan to be convicted...
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