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Daily Kos —
... blog on steroids that would wipe out the old traditional media like so many thatched huts. But that was before the World As We Know It changed, as it may for all of us. Peter Berkowitz: Bush hatred and Obama euphoria are the same thing, because it's all those passion-filled dirty fucking hippies. All 75% of them. By the way, maybe the Hoover Institute (Berkowitz is a senior fellow) should reconsider their name these days? Frank Rich: Nah, leave it. Herbert Hoover lives. Maureen Dowd: ...
Mark Steyn Hates America
The Mahablog —
... Frank Rich notes that the GOP keeps promising us “new ideas” but so far haven’t produced any. However, they (although not the Democrats) live in fear of the wrath of Rushbo. ...
Rich: GOP is Rudderless, Visionless, Leaderless
Hoffmania! —
... Aside from that, they're just a party filled with ideas. In my pants. Frank Rich's column today is appropriately titled, "Herbert Hoover Lives." An excerpt: ...
Subprime jihad
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] Frank Rich accuses the GOP of being soft on - drumroll, please - " economic terrorism ": The crisis is at least as grave as the one that confronted us and, for a time, united us after 9/11. Which is why the antics among Republicans on Capitol Hill seem so surreal. These are the same politicians who only yesterday smeared the patriotism of any dissenters from Bush s war on terror. Where is their own patriotism now that economic terror is inflicting far more harm on their constituents than Saddam Hussein s nonexistent W.M.D.? My worry is that the "stimulus" is the real ...
I have a crush on Frank Rich today.
BlueOregon —
My charge here at Blue Oregon is to consistently draw attention to that which is within the boundaries of our state or directly impacts it. But I must direct your attention to today's Sunday New York Times column by the brilliant Frank Rich. An excerpt: ...
Weather report
The Sideshow —
... I liked the cartoon that goes with this article in which Frank Rich says, "What are Americans still buying? Big Macs, Campbell's soup, Hershey's chocolate and Spam - the four food groups of the apocalypse." But even he seems to think the Republicans are supposed to have "ideas". Conservatives have ideas - the same ones they've had for more than two centuries. The problem is that no matter how many times their ideas screw things up, they still think those are good ideas. ...
Herbert Hoover Reincarnated
The Corner on National Review Online —
... on Frank Rich's typically insufferable column today, but this part also seemed egregious: If the country wasn t suffering, the Republicans behavior would be a laugh riot. The House minority leader, John Boehner, from the economic wasteland of Ohio, declared on Meet the Press last Sunday that the G.O.P. didn t want to be the party of No but the party of better ideas, better solutions. And what are those ideas, exactly? He said he ll get back to us over the coming months. If Rich wants to excoriate the G.O.P. for having a lack of ideas in general, that's his ...
An economic 9/11
Political Animal —
... connecting war spending with stimulus spending, the New York Times ' Frank Rich raised a good point yesterday that policymakers should keep in mind this week. The current G.O.P. acts as if it -- and we -- have all the time in the world.... The party's sole consistent ambition is to play petty politics to gum up the works. [...] The nightmare is that we have so irrelevant, clownish and childish an opposition party at a moment when America is in an all-hands-on-deck emergency that's as trying as war. To paraphrase a dictum that has been variously attributed to two of ...
A Time of War?
The Corner on National Review Online —
... ] That was a very odd Frank Rich column. He argued that our current economic distress is the moral equivalent of war and requires a patriotic unity behind economic commander-in-chief President Obama. Thus, the Republican opposition to the stimulus is moral bankruptcy, or worse. Does anyone remember "The war is lost" from Harry Reid, or Senator Clinton's "suspension of disbelief" about General Petraeus's account of the surge (cf. the moveon.org ad, General Betray Us), or Guantanamo's guards compared to Nazis and Pol Pot by Senator Durbin (and cf. the Kerry quote about our ...
The Bitter Taste of "Lemon Socialism": Let Them Eat Crap
The Latest on Air America —
... commercial on Saturday Night Live last weekend was pretty hilarious, turning brown to green with an eco-friendly edible diaper that comes in three different flavors: "tangy cheddar, spicy lentil, and corn chowder." Gag me with a biodegradable bamboo spoon. OK, so it was funny--but how far fetched, really? Thanks to our tanking economy, folks are eating crap en masse. Who knew that a pyramid scheme would generate its own food pyramid? Frank Rich took a peek at the Ponzi'd-out pantry in his Sunday op-ed in the New York Times : What are Americans still buying? Big Macs, ...
The Bitter Taste of "Lemon Socialism": Let Them Eat Crap
Open Left - Front Page —
... OK, so it was funny--but how farfetched, really? Thanks to our tanking economy, folks are eating crap en masse. Who knew that a pyramid scheme would generate its own food pyramid? Frank Rich took a peek at the ponzi'd-out pantry in his Sunday op-ed in the New York Times: ...
A pre-recession mindset
Political Animal —
A PRE-RECESSION MINDSET.... About a month ago, the New York Times ' Frank Rich, commenting on the Republican Party's approach to the economy, said , "The nightmare is that we have so irrelevant, clownish and childish an opposition party at a moment when America is in an all-hands-on-deck emergency that's as trying as war." As "trying as war" strikes me as the key point that seems to go overlooked. The ongoing crisis is, by most measures, the economic equivalent of a 9/11-style terrorist attack. "Everything changed" in September 2001? Everything should change now. ...
