Archive for the ‘Watching Conservatives’ Category
February 3rd, 2013
by Mark Kleiman
Conservatives fight about who gets to captain the Titanic.
Posted: Sunday, February 3rd, 2013 at
9:45 am
3 Comments »
January 27th, 2013
by Mark Kleiman
Berlusconi shows what it means to *really* ignore “political correctness.”
Posted: Sunday, January 27th, 2013 at
6:52 pm
13 Comments »
January 18th, 2013
by Mark Kleiman
The Republicans plan to demonstrate their horror of the economic consequences of policy uncertainty by creating a rolling series of debt-ceiling crises every three months. Doing that, rather than wrecking the national credit right away, is intended to show that the crazies are no longer in charge. Whatever.
Posted: Friday, January 18th, 2013 at
6:03 pm
8 Comments »
January 9th, 2013
by Mark Kleiman
Mere words can hardly convey the preposterousness of the debt ceiling.
Posted: Wednesday, January 9th, 2013 at
2:17 pm
42 Comments »
January 6th, 2013
by Mark Kleiman
“The people who elected me Speaker are mostly cowards.”
Posted: Sunday, January 6th, 2013 at
10:19 pm
33 Comments »
January 6th, 2013
by Mark Kleiman
State Department spokesman zaps Faux News hack over Clinton’s health.
Posted: Sunday, January 6th, 2013 at
7:05 pm
9 Comments »
January 5th, 2013
by Mark Kleiman
Much of today’s right is “the opposite of conservative.” Even John Podhoretz sees that.
Posted: Saturday, January 5th, 2013 at
5:09 pm
13 Comments »
January 3rd, 2013
by Jonathan Zasloff
I agree completely with Mark about the grotesque refusal of the House GOP to renew the Violence Against Women Act, and about future Democratic strategy concerning it. But I think that Cantor was being completely honest here. Southern conservative hostility toward tribal courts goes back aways. Consider the example of Sam Ervin, who nowadays is [...]
Posted: Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 at
11:38 am
14 Comments »
January 3rd, 2013
by Mark Kleiman
“And, Mr. Speaker, I’d also like to know why the House wasn’t allowed to vote on VAWA.”
Posted: Thursday, January 3rd, 2013 at
1:32 am
31 Comments »
December 30th, 2012
by Mark Kleiman
Posted: Sunday, December 30th, 2012 at
8:08 pm
72 Comments »