Greg Sargent catches Bill Kristol in his first moment of transcendent xenophobic dopiness of the new year.
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A Big Obama Mistake
Les Gelb, who was Richard Holbrooke’s closest friend, has a lovely and stunning memorial today in The Daily Beast, which includes one very significant piece of news:
From the outset, Holbrooke was hamstrung. He knew that Americans and Afghans both had no chance unless the government in Kabul shaped up. President George W. Bush let
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Morning Must Reads: 2011
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Happy new year!
–Politico surveys RNC members and finds a majority opposed to Michael Steele remaining at the helm. Gentry Collins, who made quite a splash with his very public resignation from the RNC, has dropped his chairmanship bid. It never really got off the ground and Reince Priebus still looks …
White House Debate Champ, Austan Goolsbee, Lays Down A Marker
This morning, on ABC’s This Week, White House economist Austan Goolsbee, who won a national intercollegiate debate championship as a Yale student in 1991, offered an opening statement in the coming Congressional debate over a raising of the debt ceiling this spring. Republicans plan to use the necessary move–to keep the U.S. government …