Category: The Dish

Larison is underwhelmed. Here’s the vid.

Watch him recruit for the Super Adventure Club. He’s there to help you. That’s all. Money quote:

"If you’re on board, you’re on board, just like the rest of us."

“Am I nervous at all? Do I look nervous? I am having a great time. This is a strategy we selected — it is the only strategy that can work for us and it’s a good one… and given the nature of the race which is wide open, we think it is going to turn out to be a smart strategy." – Rudy Giuliani.

Brad Plumer:

One might even wonder if a McCain presidency, combined with a Democratic Congress, offers the best chance for a bipartisan-yet-still-decent emissions-reduction bill to get enacted and stay enacted. (Think Schwarzenegger and health care in California.) I’m skeptical, but it’s not an outlandish argument.

Hilzoy has a must-read post. Money quote:

Many Democrats, myself included, believe that the Clintons were subjected to an unprecedented campaign of vilification during the 1990s. We are angry about this. Since I share this anger, it should go without saying that I find it completely comprehensible. But I don’t think that it would be a good idea for us to nominate a candidate who brings it out in us, especially not in an election that truly has the potential to reshape the political landscape.

Most obviously, when Hillary Clinton is attacked, it makes a lot of us angry all over again. And it seems to me that a lot of Democrats don’t just get angry in whatever way the current attack warrants. We have a lot of leftover anger from the 1990s, and it tends to spill out. I don’t think this is particularly useful if we want to win.

There’s a stampede away from the Clintons.

How to get around a big city and avoid the stress.

An ancient mystery finally solved.

Well, I can’t quite defend using a child this way, but it cheered me up:

Tim Noah gets it:

Clinton’s claim to superior experience isn’t merely dishonest. It’s also potentially dangerous should she become the nominee. If Clinton continues to build her campaign on the dubious foundation of government experience, it shouldn’t be very difficult for her GOP opponent to pull that edifice down. That’s especially true if a certain white-haired senator now serving his 25th year in Congress (four in the House and 21 in the Senate) wins the nomination. McCain could easily make Hillary look like an absolute fraud who is no more truthful about her depth of government experience than she is about why her mother named her "Hillary." Dennis Kucinich has more government experience than Clinton. (He also has a better health-care plan, but we’ll save that for another day.) If Clinton doesn’t find a new theme soon, she won’t just be cutting Obama’s throat. She’ll also be cutting her own.