This is actually a mini-project I started working on a while back and then forgot about…
As Bush was preparing to leave office, his Cabinet/staff/friends/allies were working to defend his legacy in the face of historically low public approval numbers. There were the inevitable comparisons to the rising stock of Harry Truman who left office [...]
Archive for April, 2009
The Truman Anomaly
Posted in History, Politics, tagged Bill Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Gerald Ford, Harry Truman, Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, legacy, Lyndon Johnson, Presidents, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Far Right
Posted in Libertarianism, Media, Political Parties, Politics, Post '08 Campaigns and Elections, tagged Arlen Specter, Chris Matthews, Club for Growth, Herdrik Hertzberg, Howard Dean, Michael Smerconish, Mike Huckabee, MSNBC, Pat Toomey on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Just an annoyance:
I’ve been watching some of the fallout from the Specter switch on MSNBC and I can’t help but notice a complete disconnect between my definition of the far-right Republican base and the commentators’ definition of the Party’s base. Let me see if I have my facts right: 1) Arlen Specter was being [...]
Arlen Specter (D-PA)
Posted in Political Parties, Politics, Post '08 Campaigns and Elections, tagged Club for Growth, Republican Party, Lindsay Graham, Pat Toomey, Arlen Specter on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Lindsay Graham: (on the pressure conservatives are putting on moderate Republicans) “I don’t want to be a member of the Club for Growth.”
Guess he won’t be doing too many fundraisers for Pat Toomey…
Best sign to Teixiera: “Severna Park Hates You”
Posted in Baseball, tagged Orioles, Yankees, Baltimore, Joe Biden, Adam Jones, New York, Camden Yards, Mark Teixiera, Baltimore Orioles, Jeffrey Maier, Cesar Izturis, Ernie Tyler on April 7, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There were too many things going right with this sentence not to pull it out…
“For one day, and probably only one day, Baltimore’s Camden Yards was transformed from the funeral home of a bumbling franchise to the raucous center of a populist rebellion.”
Actually, the full column (by Ken Rosenthal) is worth a read (even if [...]
