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Daily Kos —
Your one stop pundit shop. Ruth Marcus gives a "girly" reason why Caroline Kennedy should take Hillary Clinton's Senate seat. Pretty embarrassing. Eugene Robinson dismisses the idea that the indictment of five former Blackwater security guards is an accountability moment: But it demonstrates nothing of the sort. As with the torture and humiliation of detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison, our government is deflecting all scrutiny from the corporate higher-ups who employed the guards -- to say nothing of the policymakers ...
How many years can one column set us back?
Rising Hegemon —
Ruth Marcus, trying to out shallow Jonah Goldberg. Close. But no bubble-gum cigar. Pantload is still the dumbest writer on the planet not inhabiting K-Lo's mass.
(Not So) Sweet Caroline?
The Stump —
... The Post's Ruth Marcus goes with her heart over her head when it comes to installing Caroline Kennedy in Hillary's seat. But one longtime Stump reader drops his usual ironic bemusement for a fit of outrage: ...
The Case For Caroline?
Ross Douthat —
After allowing that her head tells her to "recoil from political dynasties," Ruth Marcus lets her heart make the case for Senator Kennedy of New York: ...
Amanda Carpenter: Why Ruth Marcus Wants Sen. Caroline Kennedy
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Try not to gag. It's sort of like your grandma's equivalent to the Disney-princess sickness that plagues young girls today. Via the WaPo: What really draws me to the notion of Caroline as senator, though, is the modern-fairy-tale quality of it all. Like many women my age -- I'm a few months younger than she -- Caroline has always been part of my consciousness: The lucky little girl with a pony and an impossibly handsome father. The stoic little girl holding her mother's hand at her father's funeral. The sheltered girl, whisked away from a still-grieving country by a mother ...
Ted Kennedy: Let’s make Caroline a Senator because she’s rich
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... wherewithal to run back-to-back costly statewide races without having to seek help from Mr. Paterson or Mr. Schumer. The ability to raise significant money is a key concern for Mr. Paterson, who has been deluged from every direction by politicians interested in the seat, which the governor is expected to fill early next year. Whoever is chosen will have to run in 2010 and again two years later. Believe it or not, this is only the second most offensive pro-Caroline pitch of the day; Ruth Marcus’s ineffably humiliating tribute to the “fairy tale” appeal of our “tragic national ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... said to be concerned that Kennedy, whom friends call "quiet and non-assertive," doesn't have the personality to be an aggressive fighter in the Senate on behalf of the state's increasingly desperate need for federal financial help. "The bottom-line question is: Can Caroline Kennedy be the tough, hard, calculating, aggressive, articulate and, yes, obnoxious type of senator New York needs and expects?" said a second administration insider.... **** Meanwhile, Ruth Marcus's column in The Washington Post is just icky: What really draws me to ...
That'll Leave a Mark
The Corner on National Review Online —
[image] [image] NRO BLOG ROW | THE CORNER | ARCHIVES SEARCH E-MAIL PRINT RSS [image] [image] Tuesday, December 09, 2008 [image] That'll Leave a Mark [ Jim Manzi ] Ruth Marcus makes the case for Caroline Kennedy for Senate in the Washington Post .. Ross Douthat smacks it down so hard that I think my nose is bleeding. 12/09 05:26 PM [image] [image] [image] © National Review Online 2008. All Rights Reserved. Home | Search | NR / Digital | Donate | Media ...
Dynasty?
N/A —
... This is, of course, a pretty good distillation of the case against dynastic politics: Namely, that it transforms the business of republican self-government into a soap opera, in which the public/audience thrills to the “intriguing subplots” involving a President’s daughter, a President’s wife, and a Governor’s son who happens to be the President’s daughter’s sister’s ex-husband … and sighs, enraptured, at the “fairy tale ending” when the President’s daughter grows ...
WaPo Writer: Caroline Kennedy Appointment as Senator Would Fulfill "Fairy Tale" Dream
NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias —
... York governor David Paterson appoint to that senate seat? Washington Post writer Ruth Marcus provides excellent reasons why it shouldn't be Caroline Kennedy but then, absurdly, decides she needs to become a senator so as to fulfill the "girly" dream of Ms Marcus to make possible the "modern fairy tale to have the little princess grow up to be a senator." I kid you not. First Marcus explains how her head says "no" but her heart says "yes" in her article about the possible appointment of Caroline Kennedy ...
The Princess and the Senate
Ross Douthat —
... : He's taken her starstruck case that Caroline Kennedy should get a Senate seat handed to her a silver platter because, well, she's an American Princess and turned it into an argument that Kennedy shouldn't take the seat because her fairy princess-y combination of gifts (she's a icon-cum-intellectual, a celebrity brainiac Cinderella, and she has a servant's heart besides) makes her way too good for the job! ...
Torture Icky, Let’s Not Talk About It
Firedoglake —
... Ruth Marcus seems to view Washington DC as a giant slumber party, and obsesses on who should be invited (Caroline Kennedy, by all means!) and what games should be played. ...
