So the Nobel Peace Laureate is going to escalate further the already-longest war in US history, right there in the Graveyard of Empires.  Okay.
What the fuck?  What do we do?  I honestly don’t know how the elected Democrats should stick a more jagged shiv in their base’s back.  I vaguely remember promises of hope and [...]

I admit I was a little skeptical, but that’s more because of my skepticism of high-level diplomacy and all its meaningless trappings.  Pretty much anything Obama could receive credit for is still in kind of an embryonic phase.  And maybe it’s a bit premature in Obama’s presidency–as this particular laureate still has great potential to [...]

What is the deal with David Brooks?  I think it’s time to coin a groaner, and that would be “self-hating elitist.”  I generally think the appellation “self-hating” says more about the designator than the designee.  But I don’t know what to make of someone who’s a (somehow) well-regarded, highly-compensated pundit with a very prominent perch [...]

Barack Obama is toying with a dubious distinction, that he might shortly be a worse president than Bush.
I’m certainly not in a calm state of mind as I write that, but I believe it to be true.  Of course, for sheer idiocy and embarrassment, only a President Palin could out-hustle Bush.  But Obama’s catastrophic mishandling [...]

I know Ted Kennedy was a god among mortals and all that, but in my politically sentient lifetime I don’t really remember him doing all that much.  I know he was instrumental during the 2003 Medicare drug expansion, but I also recall that that has since been highly derided and in any case bipartisanship is [...]

What John Cole said.
Obama is reading Tom Friedman’s book while vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard.  Vomitorious!   (Although as a devoted Ann Coulter reader, I should probably read it).

It’s official: I now hate President Obama.  Maybe next he’ll read some tract put out by the Kennedy Compound Press about why it’s bad to build a wind farm [...]

Well, after about a year and a half of liberal euphoria and self-congratulations, it’s obvious that this country is deeply fucked.  It doesn’t matter what electoral success the Democrats enjoy, because they actual progressives are few and far between.  The public option is not going to happen, and without it, any health care legislation that [...]

Sarah Palin: soon to be a woman without an office.  If she’s the least bit serious about 2012, she’s going to need a crusade to stay relevant.
Birthers: a percolating stew of the disaffected.  Nothing crystallizes their paranoia about everything like the idea that the black president with the Muslim name might be an alien.  Any [...]

Remember when it was a huge deal for pro-McCain preachers–or, for that matter, anyone–to refer to Obama by his full name, emphasizing Hussein?  It meant you were playing up the association that the he was a closet Muslim Manchurian Candidate (a Uighur Candidate?) or at least was “Palin pallin’ around with terraists.”  (Or the Antichrist.)
OK, [...]