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Archive for September, 2009
September 11th, 2009
Category: Politics and Leadership
All this discussion of Congressional decorum will seem quaint to people in…just about anywhere else. Forget the harsh questioning the British PM is subjected to–parliamentarians around the world routinely behave like Jerry Springer guests. In 1972, an MP punched the Home Secretary during a debate over Bloody Sunday. To find such a ruckus in Congress, [...]
September 11th, 2009
Category: National Security, Uncategorized
Eight years after 9/11, the least reformed part of our intelligence establishment is not the CIA or the FBI. It’s Congress. In 2004, the 9/11 Commission called congressional oversight of intelligence “dysfunctional.” In 2007 former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Lee Hamilton pleaded with the Senate Intelligence Committee to do something. And last May, when Speaker [...]
September 11th, 2009
Category: Tell About The South, Watching Conservatives
South Carolina wanted to secede in 1860. Maybe we should have let it go.
September 11th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized
I thought we settled that one at Appomattox. Tim Pawlenty was supposed to be one of the sane Republican candidates for President. Everything’s relative, I guess. Of course, Pawlenty doesn’t really mean it; he’s just pandering to the Republican base. But this tells you what a lunatic base he has to pander to.
September 11th, 2009
Category: Uncategorized, Wayward press
John Stoessel moves from ABC to Fox Business News.
September 11th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
What is the sound of two hands not clapping? Zen master Lindsay Graham expounds. h/t Steve Benen
September 10th, 2009
Category: Watching Conservatives
No doubt many RBC readers agree with Jonathan Zasloff that Rep. Joe Wilson should be criticized for saying something that wasn’t true rather than for insulting the President in a Joint Session of Congress. After all, says Jonathan, if more people had been willing to call GWB a liar, thousands of lives might have been [...]