McCain
Team Obama Played Rough in ’08, Too
If Dems Keep The House, Thank The GOP Crazies
Several times Republicans have turned what would be slam dunk Senate races for a stand-issue Republican into tight or even uphill contests by nominating right-wing whackos. READ MORE >>
The Florida Circus
McCain Flips Again
The Washington Post has him nailed: READ MORE >>
Curbside Consult: Into the Pools
This is the second installment of our new feature: Curbside Consult. For the uninitiated, curbside consults are a venerable medical tradition, whereby a doctor seeks informal advice from an experienced colleague in treating a patient with a complex condition. In covering or understanding complex health and social policies, we need sometimes help too. READ MORE >>
Certainly The Way To Go
Harold Pollack is a professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and Special Correspondent for The Treatment. Greg Mankiw writes that the gas tax is not an issue that divides liberals and conservatives, but rather one that divides political consultants and policy wonks. I would put comparative effectiveness research (CER) in the same category. READ MORE >>
Stringer Theory
Earlier this month, Joe the Plumber Wurzelbacher--last seen serving as the third wheel on John McCain and Sarah Palin's increasingly disastrous blind date--traded in his toilet jack for a handheld microphone and traveled to the Middle East to become a foreign correspondent covering the Israel-Hamas war for the conservative website Pajamas Media. Alas, he wasn't terribly impressed with his new colleagues. "I think media should be abolished from, you know, reporting," Wurzelbacher said in the Israeli city of Sderot, where he was, from all appearances, reporting. "You know, war is hell. READ MORE >>
Bum Rush
Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and other friends have spent the past year screaming about the horrors of Barack Obama. And, while it's true that they talked ad nauseam about socialism and the Weathermen and Jeremiah Wright, careful listeners would have noticed a recurring theme of anxiety: that Obama was going to use the newly acquired levers of government to destroy them. READ MORE >>
The Breakup, Ctd.
From Newsweek's "Special Election Project": READ MORE >>
