I'm only being partially obtuse. I get annoyed with these random Harvard law students that show up here with every new semester. Yes, I know they are allowed to write here through their connection with Elizabeth Warren, but that doesn't really justify subjecting us to uninformative and uninteresting posts like this about McCain.

Kozmik, in all honesty, I would rather have you posting in the front page than this joker. But it's been clear since the beginning that Josh Marshall has an extreme East Coast bias and the tpm organization is not particularly interested in spreading beyond it's narrow regional confines. Specifically, I mean that there are plenty of people in this country who have much more valuable insights than Ganesh here, but Marshall et al refuse to look beyond the Northeast in order to find them.

Chalk that up to my recurring bouts of malcontentedness if you want.

If you really want to parse his language, we can do that. He wrote, "What would it take for Senator McCain to acknowledge the need for government action in the economy?" This does not indicate an understanding of my position but rather directly accepts that there is scuh a thing as "interference in the economy." He does not use quotes as I do to indicate that they are not his words, and he does not attribute the phrasing to any other person. Thus, we have to assume that this was his chosen phrasing.