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trying to say the name of that bill. Not good. Somebody get Lakoff on the phone with Wyden--ASAP.
Posted at October 27, 2005 12:00 PM in response to Tax Reform
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as if Santos was running to the right of Vinnick on religion by forcing him to discuss an issues he's uncomfortable with while staking out the middle on ID for himself. As if the Republicans would nominate a secular pro-choice candidate in the first place. WW has really gone into the realm of sci fi this season.
Posted at October 17, 2005 2:26 PM in response to Off Message
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While this is true in a narrow sense, it misses the larger point, which is that Blix and ElBaradei had limited credibility at that point.
And the Bush administration played no small part in this. They tried to discredit at every turn the inspection process. It was the height of hypocrisy that they pretended to be fulfilling the mandate of UN resolutions calling for the disarmament of Iraq while at the same time they undermined the very process that would determine if Iraq had disarmed or not. In fact, there was never going to be any inspection that would satisfy the administration because they had already decided to go to war. The facts, as they say, were fixed around the policy.
Posted at October 10, 2005 1:59 PM in response to An Epitaph for an Administration
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...does Dreier get his own portrait too? Mrs. Wallace did, so it's only fair...hehe
Posted at September 28, 2005 5:16 PM in response to This Will Be Fun to Watch
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It seems to me that,historically, Republicans in the executive branch (presidents, vice presidents) have been fundamentally uninterested in governing. By this I mean that they're uninterested in the fundamental areas that most Americans see as being within the purview of government, such as disaster relief. They're fundamentally uninsterested in making government work more efficiently and effectively. Men like Cheney and Rumsfeld remind me of Nixon, who wasn't really interested in domestic policy and was instead engrossed in foreign affairs (he wasn't alone in this--Kennedy was similar in this way). They probably see this disaster relief business as beneath them. As for Bush, he really only seems interested in the political aspect of governance, and crass politics at that.
So in a way, it shouldn't surprise us that their response to Katrina has been so incompetent. They're just not interested in this aspect of governance and, except for election years, they're less likely to pay attention to it.Posted at September 4, 2005 10:20 PM in response to The Responsibility Era
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Kate, the link to Schmitt's post is broken. The URL has an "admin" directory in it and if you try it it says "Permission Denied."
Posted at July 14, 2005 3:57 PM in response to What's New...
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I'm currently reading a paper by Robert Pape of the University of Chicago called The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (http://danieldrezner.com/research/guest/Pape1.pdf) that makes points similar to the ones on this post. If nothing else, this paper and Steve's post awaken us to the necessity of looking at this problem rationally instead of superimposing our own ideologies, biases or preferences on it. An earlier commenter expressed pessimism about the possibility of having this discussion in America. I'm pessimistic too, but we should still try.
Posted at July 13, 2005 6:48 PM in response to Thinking the Unthinkable: Competing for Legitimacy in the Eyes of Aggrieved People
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Cheney told Sen. Patrick Leahy (VT) to fuck himself, not Feingold, but your point is well taken.
Posted at June 10, 2005 1:08 PM in response to Howard Dean is Doing What Dems Need: Shaking Things Up
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I wanna second whoever cited Ian Kershaw's two-volume bio on Hitler. One of the best bios I've read.
I know this is supposed to be about narrative history, but I want to make a pitch for Gore Vidal's Julian. If you're a fan of ancient history or historical fiction, you'll like this book.
Posted at June 10, 2005 9:58 AM in response to History
