I’m sorry:  but when you’ve pushed Chris Christie, or written to praise Mitt Romney’s conservatism and electability, you pretty much lose any credibility with those of us who still believe in representative government.  So it’s probably best not to try to pass yourself off as anything other than an establishment-humping book hawker.  Because we aren’t buying it. Just as we aren’t buying your books any longer. So does it surprise

“Stop listening to the evil assholes who, with their voices or their pens or their computers or their activism, continue to fight my attempt to fundamentally transform this wretched capitalistic country.  That flawed document you crackers all fetishize, the Constitution, and the rich white slave owners who drafted the ridiculous and largely obstructionist thing, would want you to do just that:  shut up and let the professional political class manage

And why is he “embarrassed”?  Because it turns out he’d formed his beliefs about the acumen of those who identify as TEA Partiers — he had expected them to be slightly dumb and not terribly scientifically inclined (and I’d add, probably RACIST!) — from reading the New York Times, or Politico, or the Huffington Post.  Which, that’s not terribly scientific now, is it? To his credit, however, the professor, Dan

Worth a watch.  For a good laugh.  And then, a cry.

Winston Smith could not be reached for comment.  But if he could, he’s probably be thinking something like, “well, that’s kind of a bummer” — though he wouldn’t dare say it aloud. As Phil C notes in an email, “I’d say the prospect of this not being an addendum to the gun-grabbers data base are approximately zero.”  True.  But I’ll go him one further:  I think then end game of

Tom W sent along a piece from Belmont Club and asked if I had thoughts on the subjects it tackles.  I answered him back via email, but I figured I may as well go ahead and post my brief reply here, as well.  Because why not, right? First, Richard Fernandez, PJM, “The Third Party”: William Galston, writing in the Wall Street Journal warns that the institutional Republican Party — the

This time, from Daniel Pritchard, alerting me to a piece by “journalist” Sarah Hill, writing in the Boston Review Blog, “Ted Cruz’s Castro Complex” Writes an apparently quite self-satisfied Mr Pritchard: Good afternoon! Online today at the Boston Review Blog, journalist Sarah Hill writes of Ted Cruz’s Castro Complex, “the disorder in which a professed hatred of Castro belies a perversely flattering fixation on Castro’s political genius, and in Cruz’s

Wheeeee! Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner: Many Americans shopping for better health insurance deals promised by the two-week-old Obamacare system are instead being slapped with rate shock, including savings-sapping deductibles and co-pays, according to multiple reports from around the country. For some able to get the problem-plagued Obamacare website to work, the so-called “deals” the system is coughing up around the country include $12,600 deductibles, co-pays of up to 40 percent,

How dare he? I mean, doesn’t this uppity Cruz fellow realize that, by starting a fight he couldn’t possibly win, he harmed the GOP — who without him never would have started a fight in the first place, and so would have not won a lot sooner? The goal is to get the capitulation over with. By drawing it out, you’re just making it more obvious how feckless the GOP