Today on the Dish, Andrew called the end of the horse race, explained why he couldn't get on board with Paul Ryan's plan, and delved into the data suggesting that the GOP's Christianism was, rather than saving Christianity, destroying it. We blamed Romney's failings as a candidate for the overlong primary (follow-up here), noted the weaknesses of another veep pick, cornered the constituency responsible for Santorum's possible tactical victory in Louisiana, and listened to him disavow one of them. The next Democratic nominee looked poised to embrace marriage equality, Obama's supposed funding problem got scrutinized, and David Corn analyzed Obama's "strategic patience." Ad War Update here.
Andrew also got into it with Jeffrey Goldberg on arguments from "authoritah" on Israel and notified y'all about his Bill Maher appearance this Friday. We aired a sophisticated dissent from a reader on how to deal with the settlement problem, listened to more readers on the same topic, examined Peter Beinart's own rebuttal to his "Zionist boycott" proposal's critics, were appalled by the terrorist assault in Toulouse, checked on Syria's reverberations in Lebanon, and spotted basic Russian and Chinese weaknesses in global politics. American soldiers may (or may not) have been properly given the label "hero" automatically and officers made bank.
The web reacted to Paul Ryan's new budget, inequality's causes were debated, the ranks of the suburban poor swelled, men left professions that women entered, Obamacare litigation received scrutiny, a lottery ticket's value wasn't principally financial, and lying about Foxconn deflated the truth. Trayvon Martin was unjustly murdered, humanity seemed able to avoid extinction, horse racing brutalized horses, firefighter vision disoriented us, anonymous sobering helped many, and female Dish readers kept speaking up. AAA here, Quotes for the Day here and here, VFYW here, MHB here, and FOTD here.
– Z.B.
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