Lots of
bloggers
are having fun this morning with GOP Rep. Don Young using this made-up quote from Abraham Lincoln to attack those on the other side who are opposing the surge in Iraq:
Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damage morale
and undermine the military are saboteurs, and should be arrested, exiled
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Broder thinks Bush is about to have a renaissance. And yes, the President did have a pretty good press conference the other day. But he’s having a historically disastrous war. And he had a disgraceful Katrina. And…
Pre-emptive Update: Before the commentariat weighs in with ‘Hey, didn’t you defend Broder last week?’ and ‘Aren’t you …
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In which the author gives advice about how to build a grass roots movement.
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A lot of commentary in the blogosphere today, especially from Matt Yglesias and Ezra Klein about whether “all options” should be “on the table” in dealing with Iran.
I was (correctly) hammered last year when I said on Stephanopoulos that “all options–including nukes–should be on the table” in our dealings with Iran. This was a mistake …
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I think David Brooks is very astute in his column today, which lurks behind the Times firewall, about Hillary Clinton’s honorable evolution on the war. I don’t think she has anything to apologize for–but I disagree with Brooks: sooner or later, she’s going to have to admit that her vote to authorize the war was, historically, the wrong …
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Azar Nafisi, author of Reading Lolita in Tehran and no friend of the mullahs, has this to say about the foolishness of going to war with Iran.
More from Fox’s “Half Hour News Hour,” this clip attempts to derive laughs from the idea of “President Rush and Vice President Ann Coulter.”
I’ll grant there is much humor to be wrested from that hypothetical (and horrifying) scenario, most of the jokes probably having to do with making Oxycotin available over-the-counter and installing …
You may have heard that Fox News has hired “24” producer Joel Surnow to create what everyone kind of has to call “a conservative Daily Show.” As anyone who has dabbled in comedy can tell you, starting out with a political objective or message is pretty much death for the funny. What makes something like the Daily Show work is execution, …
Gawker has already made the best joke you can about this:
The implicit compliment the NY Post is paying to Clinton may explain why Media Matters is not already on top of it.
Fidelis (“a Catholic-based advocacy organization established to help elect pro-life, pro-family and pro-religious liberty candidates to public office”) has announced that they will be using the resignations of Edwards’ bloggers (the second as of today) as a springboard for a series of ads, designed to draw attention this pressing …
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1. Mood: Non-combative, conciliatory. Refused to indulge in the McCain-Lieberman tactic of saying the “Democrat party”–he’s still calling it that, by the way–is undermining the troops. Called the Democrats “patriotic” several times.
2. Iraq–nothing new here.
3. Iran–significant retreat from intel briefing: he doesn’t know whether …
Well, it looks like we’ll be invading Iran, huh? In other news, our former colleague Mike Allen got a nice little shout out for a venture those in DC may have heard something about (unofficial t’script thanks to pal MM):
bush (calling on allen): michael, who do you work for?
allen: politico.com, mr. president.
bush: politico.com? do
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This piece, by Lawrence Kaplan, is the smartest thing I’ve read in a while about what’s actually happening on the ground in Iraq. It has the virtue of first-hand reporting from al-Anbar Province and some very good analysis about why the Baghdad “surge” is probably doomed. I differ from Kaplan on one point, however: he’d maintain our …
