This post was written for the Des Moines Register Political Opinion Page. Yeah, so three months and no posts. I don’t have much to offer in the way of an excuse really. Work has certainly been a factor. But more than anything it has been a combination of a numb depression at the direction...
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Americans it seems have a more nuanced concept of how to balance the budget than the GOP. The President tonight has the opportunity to be the adult in the room and propose actual, workable solutions (Yet still painful. It seems if the cuts don't "hurt" then they are not "serious.") to put the...
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From the Des Moines Register Politics Blog: Well, it took me a couple of days to climb out of the bottle that I crawled into on the night of the 2nd. Then I had to get caught back up at work. Now that I’ve had a week or so to get my head around...
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From the Des Moines Register Politics Blog: “Carthage Must Be Destroyed.” During the Third Punic War, the Roman statesman, Cato the Elder, was said to have inserted this phrase into every public speech he gave, regardless of whether he was speaking of the war with Carthage. Thus, the Latin phrase, Carthago Delenda Est has...
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Gotta lead with the good stuff. Crank this one to 11. In re: McCrystal. A couple of things that should pop right out as the nut graphs of this whole affair but that (typically) have been totally buried by the media in the whole scandaliciousness frenzy surrounding the Rolling Stone article by , Michael...
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One week until the deadline for Google Fiber applications due. Editing video and talking to people. And working. So, yeah. Remember last July when Senator Jim DeMint declared that Republican’s would make health care “Obama’s Waterloo?” How’s your French, Jim? There were two great generals in that battle. I guess Obama gets to be...
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I’ve been saying ever since he was a long-shot candidate that if anyone thought that Barack Obama was a bleeding-heart liberal then they just weren’t listening. The man is a hard-core centrist. His fine speaking abilities and outgoing personality combined with that centrisim to put many people in mind of Ronald Reagan. Andrew Sullivan...
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Still busy with work and a couple of other projects. So, you’ll have to make do with a re-post from The Economist’s excellent Democracy In America blog. I think this analysis is very close to the mark. Obama’s reasonableness and his ability to “rope-a-dope” those who would undermine his goals is not only very...
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Obama brought the good stuff tonight, the pure stuff, the uncut stuff. All summer long, everyone forgot about That Obama. He’s been looking like Technocrat Obama; quiet, studious, subdued and somewhat aimless. And then he comes off the ropes like Ali again with that glint in his eye. Chuck Grassley, you just got p0wned....
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From Chris Good at The Atlantic comes the reminder that when it comes to politics, ol’ Niccolo Machiavelli had this stuff figured out 500 years ago. Thinking in the context of the health care debate and why the democrats seem (comparatively) so weak in their level of support: It must be considered that there...
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