by Patrick Appel
Weigel puts recent political spats in the best possible light:
There’s a kind of beauty to the Reid and welfare stories … They can only be explained or debunked with torturous policy analysis. Bill Clinton’s response to the welfare story (he appears in Romney’s ad as a sort of beacon of bipartisan hope and change) was a long explanation of how welfare waivers were actually implemented in the 1996 reform. “In Clinton fashion,” snarked Politico, “brevity is not at play.” Readers could skip the snark and read more about the policy. Not bad for a slow, stupid August.
The Dish 