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vanityfair.com - 3/31/2009

What's Wrong with Washington?

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Washington has always been out of sync with the rest of America, but since Obama's election, Beltway pundits seem more stubbornly and stupendously irrelevant than ever. Have three decades of being wired for Republican power blown their jittery, Twittering minds?

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csmonitor.com - 3/27/2009

States rebel against Washington

— csmonitor.com — The pushback against federal power began under Bush, but may now be accelerating.... (more) States rebel against Washington

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reason.com - 3/27/2009

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

— reason.com — Matthew Yglesias wonders why the government can't decide that those making yearly salaries in excess of $10... million are unworthy of such obscene levels of compensation and, in the service of "egalitarianism," couldn't simply apply ... (more) What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — ... on Rush Limbaugh and one by James Wolcott - are worth a thousand words a piece and pretty much speak for themselves: vflimbaugh vfrovegingrich

Wolcott On The Village
Eschaton — An amusing if also somewhat scary read. Only within the Beltway popcorn popper could Gingrich, whose serpent tongue and ogre ego did so much to polarize discourse in the 1990s and abort reform, be considered a foxy catch. Only in Washington, D.C., could Gingrich, a magpie of futurist jargon and a bumptious opportunist, pass himself off as an iconoclastic force and centrifuge of ideas, a cross between Buckminster Fuller and Che Guevara leading a commando raid on the buffet table. And only within the punditocracy could “hyper-bipartisan” be bandied about as an ...

Unemployment Rises to 8.5%. . . and Then There’s the Bad News
Firedoglake — ... On the upside for me, I got my garden box built yesterday and filled with lovely compost, mixed with peat moss, a little vermiculite, well-composted manure and some humus. But I didn't complete it until late yesterday evening, so none of my seedlings went into the ground. It's lovely, friable, ready for planting...and it's pouring the rain down outside this morning. At least it will be well watered by the time I get to plant, I suppose. In the meantime? Do give this splendiferous smackdown from Wolcott a read. (H/T digby) No ...

Hand jive
Balloon Juice — Halperin’s fronting the absurd Chavez handshake story. The Politico has convened their asinine Arena panel to discuss it. And Newt is leading the charge on this. James Wolcott said it best: Only within the Beltway popcorn popper could Gingrich, whose serpent tongue and ogre ego did so much to polarize discourse in the 1990s and abort reform, be considered a foxy catch. Only in Washington, D.C., could Gingrich, a magpie of futurist jargon and a bumptious opportunist, pass himself off as an iconoclastic force and centrifuge of ...