tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post1338384379426435835..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Read Stuff, You ShouldJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-88207209291331552102010-11-25T04:20:36.999-06:002010-11-25T04:20:36.999-06:00My question, as usual: where are the hack liberal ...<i> My question, as usual: where are the hack liberal economists?</i><br /><br />The Op/Ed page of the New York Times?David Nieporenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06437009739704663939noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-22346291351360946352010-11-24T20:49:48.026-06:002010-11-24T20:49:48.026-06:00Phil,
No question, her intense supporters are an ...Phil,<br /><br />No question, her intense supporters are an asset. OTOH, well, the numbers don't look great for her overall. If her current sub-20% is close to her ceiling, she's not going to win the nomination. <br /><br />More to your point: it's certainly possible that people who don't want her to be the nominee would rather not speak out against her right now, but would be willing to next fall if she looks as if she might win Iowa was ~25% of the vote. Yes, that's a tricky game that could go wrong. And we don't even know right now that it's really true that party leaders don't want her. But if they do, and they do speak out against her with something like a united front, it's highly unlikely she could survive that.Jonathan Bernsteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-21705263134831400662010-11-24T01:00:45.964-06:002010-11-24T01:00:45.964-06:00Mr. Bernstein:
TNR doesn't let non-subscribers...Mr. Bernstein:<br />TNR doesn't let non-subscribers comment, so I thought I'd leave it here. You are right about Palin not being VP again. But you forgot one thing. Palin will never play second fiddle to anyone ever again. Also, how are GOP insiders going to stop Palin? Rove backed down when he got called out over the O'Donnell primary win. Also, Palin knows how to play the victim card perfectly. What other GOP candidate has the legion of die-hard supporters she has?Phil Perspectivehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13540815981930702517noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-2504558692823725902010-11-24T00:11:33.672-06:002010-11-24T00:11:33.672-06:00Thanks for the direction to Nicole's rant. Tri...Thanks for the direction to Nicole's rant. Tried to have a class discussion about structural reasons for worsening and deepening inequality today and they hadn't done the reading that covered the actual substance and adopted uncritically/reflexively the (ultra-)conservative view on the value of meaning of inequality. I sent the link as just a reminder that (hopefully) that being poor in America really isn't so hot and that maybe we want to expect a bit more from our government/ourselves. Quiz when we get back from break!abranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-8640823861345937562010-11-23T14:09:01.737-06:002010-11-23T14:09:01.737-06:00From your link to Pareene: "Here's a line...From your link to Pareene: "Here's a line from Bai's bio: 'In fact, I've never lived more than a few miles from a housing project, which probably explains my skepticism toward both Darwinian social policy and the notion that expansive government can fix everything.' I've nearly always lived practically within sight of housing projects too, but I never learned any banal truisms from that fact."<br /><br />HAHAHAHA! I can't believe Matt Bai has the naivete to put that on his own site as though it's earned him some unique perspective. I've never realized it before, but I know of housing projects within a few miles of everywhere I've lived too, and I haven't amassed any general insights on industrial decay and politics as a result. In fact, I think most people within the confines of a metropolitan area live are always within a few miles of a housing project. What an asinine statement.Thomasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-51433722692457033482010-11-23T09:51:07.776-06:002010-11-23T09:51:07.776-06:00That survey of conservative economists was great. ...That survey of conservative economists was great. I think we've found a corollary to the old maxim that an economist is someone who has predicted 17 of the last three recessions: A conservative economist is someone who thinks that the Bush tax cuts - which have been around for nearly a decade without creating a single net private-sector job - are exactly what we need to start creating jobs.Tom Nawrockihttp://www.debris-slide.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-70137672539512922692010-11-23T08:36:43.269-06:002010-11-23T08:36:43.269-06:00Gosh, I didn't know The Weekly Standard had be...Gosh, I didn't know The Weekly Standard had been acquired by Gawker Media ... but allowed to retain its comfort with classism and mild(?) sexism. Ugh. Labash sure is right that the one thing that brings a lot of naturally unsympathetic people to sympathize with Sarah Palin is the smug awfulness she seems to being out in her critics.<br /><br />(Sorry, it is probably tacky to complain about linkdump contents. But it was a little nauseating to hear ML complain that Palin was too comfortable with twitter by ... citing the many critics of hers he's found through twitter; and complain both that the show is so manicured and manipulated that we never get near reality, and that she doesn't deserve any privacy because she's exposed her innermost secrets to the world on television; and complain that the Palins aren't experts at all the stuff they do on the show when it is just a genre convention of reality TV travelogue shows that the people be enthusiastic and somewhat relevantly trained but essentially amateurs; and on and on. I mean, do you think he's written that Chuck Grassley -- a much more unconventional speller and abbreviator -- "sound[s] like a 15-y.o. twitterhead (sic)?" singled out Mike Huckabee for demonstrating his lack of gravitas by writing diet books (!) and whipping out the bass guitar at every opportunity? accused Rudy Giuliani of unfairly subjecting his children to the spotlight (Giuliani's messy public marriage dissolution, among other things, ensured that his daughter doesn't talk to him, besides the whole decade-plus of fame-seeking, the fight-picking, the drag photos, etc. ad infinitum)? does he think Mitt Romney would have refused a reality show if anyone were interested in watching him? I bloody well bet Labash thinks Chris Christie is AWESOME for having turned himself into a walking reality TV show ... Sorry, this really is a rant. Positive recommendation: Jesse Singal's TNR piece about the show was a lot better.)the classicisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08691196845661570282noreply@blogger.com