zandarvts.blogspot.com - 7/12/2009
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Reaction to yesterday's Newsweek piece on Eric Holder considering a special prosecutor on the Bush torture regime has been interesting, but it has all missed the point. The Wingers have gone into a spittle - flecked meltdown as expected, but the folks on the left have completely missed the ...
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Cause For Optimism On Torture Accountability?
Balloon Juice —
... One could interpret conflicting reports like this several different ways. Either Horton or Carrie Johnson at the Washington Post could simply be wrong. Alternatively the difference could, as Zandar argues here, come from the writers’ own contrasting perspectives. Zandar argues persuasively that Johnson’s story reflects the strong Village tilt against accountability (warnings about destroying Obama’s agenda could be seen as a type of concern trolling) whereas Horton clearly and unambiguously supports accountability. ...
Avant Le Deluge
Balloon Juice —
... Overall, the number of column inches that the story devotes to dark threats from the right make it harder to argue with Zandar that the Washington Post is essentially giving the Obama administration one last chance to turn back before we all drown in Republican tears. The Bush administration left a ton of suspicious-looking threads hanging out in the open, and the story seems to imply that pulling any one of them hard enough will irreversibly open a Pandora’s Box of unwelcome surprises. I certainly hope so. ...
Morning Skim: Obama's Clinton Checkmate
Opinionator —
... Hillary in the topmost Cabinet job. Secretary Clinton can’t be seen to differ from the president without sabotaging her own power. And ex-President Clinton has been uncharacteristically disciplined about not threatening the careful political equilibrium his wife is trying to maintain. Besides, when Hillary had her own deep misgivings about taking the job in the first place, it was Bill who seconded Obama and encouraged her to accept. Zandar Versus the Stupid : Blogger Zandar says “ Reaction to [the] Newsweek piece on Eric Holder considering a special prosecutor on the Bush ...
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