THE STUMP DECEMBER 14, 2011
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So I might have just finished writing a book yesterday, but I wasn’t born yesterday. And yet my colleagues are trying to persuade me that a guy with the same name as the former House Speaker is the front-runner for the GOP nomination. Strikes me as wildly implausible—I mean, what are the chances?
Anyway, I’ll get to the bottom of it and report back. I’m looking forward to pitching in again around here after ten months of book leave.
In the meantime, if you’re interested in what I’ve been up to, you can pre-order the book on Amazon: It’s called The Escape Artists, and it’s a narrative about the Obama administration’s struggle to fix the economy. I've got lots of new details in there, I think, some of which I’ll be dribbling out on this blog as we get closer to the publication date.
Oh, and I’m also a multi-platform operation now. I plan to do a lot of tweeting as we head into the home stretch of the GOP primaries. Anyone who likes their political insights in 140 characters or fewer should feel free to follow me at @noamscheiber. Happy to mix it up with you there, too.
Okay, enough of the marketing spiel for the moment. Back to real content very shortly.
P.S. I owe a huge thanks to my colleague Alec MacGillis for holding down the fort at The Stump while I was on leave. (Holding down the stump at the fort?) His stuff has been truly terrific these last few months.
6 comments
Man, if you figure out the answer to this question, you should definitely let us know -- the best I've been able to come up with is "mass hysteria".
- akbaldwin
December 14, 2011 at 11:29am
Jon Stewart sold his soul to the devil.
- Dausuul
December 14, 2011 at 11:50am
What the hell happened? We're officially at war with Christmas now. The governor of California has somehow overcome his illegitimate child scandal to be hired to costar in EXPENDABLES 2 and become an action movie star. Obama's every action, inaction, & word is somehow totally wrong & harmful or an "apology for America," which seems to have somehow made Al Quaeda decide to destroy itself and virtually surrender in the face of American weakness. Cats & dogs are living together. News networks' continued legitimacy- and airtime-lending to Rick Santorum & Michele Bachmann has somehow almost made me forget why they are despicable politicians. Gary Johnson's boomlet hasn't yet materialized. Nothing makes sense. Everything is chaos.
- Konstantin
December 14, 2011 at 1:05pm
Trump, Bachman, Perry, Cain (and now Gingrich) were going to become the Republican Nominee. Romney will probably answer the call to run as an independent to force the Independents to vote for someone else.
- Nusholtz
December 14, 2011 at 1:51pm
Welcome back! Been waiting for that book awhile. Your partner on this blog is outstanding. I assume your contributions will be more about the economy than the election, although I suppose it's impossible to distinguish the two given the current economic mess and the (most likely) deciding effect the economy will have on the election.
- rayward
December 14, 2011 at 2:38pm
Thanks. Yeah, I'm looking to plant myself at the intersection of the economy and the campaign. Fortunately it's a big intersection - like one of those chaotic traffic circles in Paris or Rome.
- Noam Scheiber
December 14, 2011 at 2:49pm