Category: The Dish

My best bet is that Republicans will start worrying about it the minute the Clintons get their hands back on the reins of executive power. It’s not as if the Clintons haven’t wire-tapped before, is it? Of course, some in the GOP – like Giuliani – will simply use the Clintons’ previous abuses of power to legitimize their own. Hey, the GOP now stands for ceding self-government to one all-powerful Decider. How can they complain when it’s Hillary?

Way cool:

K-Lo wants Laura to run for Kay Bailey-Hutchison’s seat. Why not Jenna? Or would that upset Chelsea?

I tend to agree with Matt. What Putin is surely saying with respect to Iran’s nuclear ambitions is relatively simple. If you Americans bomb Iran, we have the capacity to help them develop a nuclear bomb pretty quickly thereafter. Or just give them one. I wonder how Giuliani would respond to that. Threaten to nuke Russia? Or maybe I shouldn’t ask.

A time-waster for narcissists. I loved it, especially my el Greco look.

An interesting difference.

You probably have the wrong website. But you can always move to New Zealand.

I haven’t followed her latest crusade, but it would appear so.

From his Foreign Affairs essay:

"We need a new Western approach to this revanchist Russia. We should start by ensuring that the G-8, the group of eight highly industrialized states, becomes again a club of leading market democracies: it should include Brazil and India but exclude Russia. Rather than tolerate Russia’s nuclear blackmail or cyberattacks, Western nations should make clear that the solidarity of NATO, from the Baltic to the Black Sea, is indivisible and that the organization’s doors remain open to all democracies committed to the defense of freedom. …More broadly, America needs to revive the democratic solidarity that united the West during the Cold War."

This is Patrick Ruffini’s map of where Ron Paul is getting his money. The strength in the Mountain West is impressive, if unsurprising. The hostility of the South to his message of individual liberty is also no big whup. Stuart Benjamin notices how evenly spread Paul’s money-base is compared with many others:

His campaign contributions are spread out quite evenly (he’s done better in Texas than elsewhere, which is not surprising, but his Texas total is only three times his haul from the state of Washington and a bit smaller than funds from California). And his receipts come from all over. Indeed, and perhaps unsurprisingly, he does better in smaller states, which may have a higher percentage of people who lean libertarian. He has received more money from North Dakota, for example, than either Romney or Giuliani. You can decide for yourself whether this means we should consider him to be the only candidate with a true 50-state appeal, or the candidate for people in sparsely populated and over-represented (in the Senate) states.

Two interesting factoids: New Hampshire is first in donors per capita in the country. I think his support may be under-estimated in that state. The second surprise is that his second strongest "state" is Washington D.C., where a lot of disenchanted libertarian Republicans reside. Ahem.