A plain blog about politics

Three comments on the excellent Michael Cooper NYT story about the Democrats' stealth tax cut within the stimulus bill. First, Cooper...

Ezra Klein had what I think is a great point yesterday. Then there's this question of "hardball." This is broader than the ...

Speaking of the news that the Awakening in Iraq may not end the way that it started (see this NYT article , a good Matt Yglesias post , and ...

Matt Yglesias has a good reaction post to the Sunday NYT story about Awakening Councils switching sides again in Iraq.  I have two points ...

Since I praised Kevin Drum's recent article on the history of wild, half-crazed conservative reactions to the election of Democratic pr...

How scared are you about the possibility that the Supreme Court will (1) knock out ACA, and (2) return to pre-New Deal interpretations of th...

So I was watching Sharron Angle debate the other night, and I realized: she either believes, or is attempting to make people believe, that w...