Posts Tagged ‘ Abbreviated Pundit Round-Up ’

Your one stop pundit stop. Eugene Robinson nails it: The word "McCarthyism" is overused, but in this case it's mild. Liz Cheney, the former vice president's ambitious daughter, has in her hand a list of Justice Department lawyers whose "values" she has the gall to question. She ought to spend...
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Friday, finally!! And Phils beat Yankees (it's only spring training.) Paul Krugman: But while the blockade is over, its lessons remain. Some of those lessons involve the spectacular dysfunctionality of the Senate. What I want to focus on right now, however, is the incredible gap that has opened up...
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Your one stop pundit shop. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) argues against an up-or-down vote on health care reform and invents his own Constitution to make his case: This is attractive to proponents because it sharply limits debate and amendments to a mere 20 hours and would allow passage with only 51...
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Happy and safe Thanksgiving. Get your safe and effective H1N1 vaccine when it's available.   Gail Collins on the Obama Turkey pardon:   The turkey-pardoning is supposed to be a long-running national tradition, but it officially only goes back to George (the Good One) Bush and 1989. Since Thanksgiving is...
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Your really late, I can't believe I forgot all about it, one stop pundit shop. Gail Collins is the best. Thanks to the health care protests over the past week, the nation seems to have come to a fragile consensus on a few critical issues. For instance, government-run death panels...
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Monday opinion: The Hurt Locker wins big. NY Times TV Watch: The hosts, Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin, did an updated Catskills routine, but were at their best when snubbing George Clooney and mocking the most distinguished nominees. "Oh look, there’s that damn Helen Mirren," Mr. Martin said, pointing at...
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Sunday funnies, courtesy of the pundits. Frank Rich: Those who are unsympathetic or outright hostile to Obama frame his failures as an attempt to impose "socialism" on a conservative nation. The truth is that the Fox News right would believe this about any Democratic president no matter who he was...
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Saturday opinion. Kent Conrad: A lot of misinformation has been spread recently about the budget reconciliation process. As chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, I have the primary responsibility for budget-related matters in the Senate. So let me set the record straight. Here's the easiest way to...
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Thursday opinions, with spring on the way. NY Times editorial: Republicans’ lock-step opposition to comprehensive health care reform seems to be as much a matter of politics as principle. But either way, they have made clear that there is no dialogue or any possible compromise that will persuade them to...
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A smorgasboard of opinion. Chris Cillizza: While Zuckerman's personal wealth would almost certainly make the race against appointed Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D) moderately competitive, a new Marist Poll showed that he would start off well behind the incumbent. Gillibrand held a wide 59 percent to 26 percent edge over...
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