Time’s Karen Tumulty predicts that we’ll be hearing a lot more about the cost of health care reform from insurance industry lackeys, using statements from CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf.
In yet another miserable Joe Klein essay validating the morally depraved, inside-the-beltway establishment consensus that on government torture and war crimes, we should all just move along people nothing to see here, one of the regular right-wing commenters, in the usual right-wing-total-lack-of-awareness-of-anything-style, asks the question:
“…if you believe that al-Qaeda and Bin Laden didn’t attack us [...]
Watch and pay attention to certain tricks of diversion as Republicans try to muddy the water on torture.
Let’s drive a stake through the heart of the right-wing meme that says releasing the CIA torture memos was Obama’s choice.
The NRA announced it will spend $40 million during this year’s elections, including $15 million to portray Sen. Barack Obama as a threat to gun rights.
We had a certifiable psychopath and ignoramus as president for eight years and no one at NBC seemed to notice.
Another concrete lesson, as if we needed any, that those whom we entrusted to inform and lead us, were never even half up to the job.
Joe Klein has been an interesting study in liberal journalism gone wrong, even while it struggles to right itself. In today’s column, State of the Union he makes a strong case against the current dead-end Republican obstructionism, while making the case for “Burkean conservatism–and against the innate optimism of liberals” and hopes for some sort of responsible Republicanism (with which we are recently unfamiliar)…
I sure hope that all this “what did he get out of it” rhetoric is about keeping the leftward pressure on Obama and not because they really don’t understand why he’s done what he’s done or what he’s gotten from it.
The corporate press, from the NY Times and Washington Post to Chris Matthews and Brian Williams, treats both Democratic rationality and Republican insanity with exactly equal credulity.
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