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Third Party Nihilism: The Arguments Can Always Get Worse!
To its credit, the occasional inexplicable book-plugging interview aside Salon no longer promotes Camille Paglia. Alas, it is now fairly regularly publishing Matt Stoller, who is sort of Paglia but 1)with fewer references to Madonna and uses of the word “Dionysian,” and 2)less coherent. His latest ridiculous argument in favor of throwing the election to [...]
“Obamney” Nihilism: An Ornament of Frippery
Oh, you could spend some time quibbling with the particularly egregious howlers in Matt Stoller’s latest bit of Obamney nihilism. For example: And on a policy level, whether you call it Romneycare in Massachusetts, or Obamacare nationally, it’s the same healthcare program. That’s right — Stoller is trying to argue that national Republican health care [...]
I Told You Obama Should Have Been Impeached As Soon As He Appointed William Rehnquist and Forced the Beatles to Break Up
Shorter Matt Stoller: This data showing that the number of strikes has been in severe decline since the early 70s shows that Barack Obama should have been primaried in 2012. I am not a crackpot. Seriously, when you right a superficially leftier-than-thou piece that manages to replicate some concern-trolling from Jennifer Rubin, you’ve reached a [...]
What’s Challenging About Paul?
Apparently, a twitter storm has broken out about the post I don’t want to get into, but Greenwald’s latest has a couple things I wanted to respond to on the merits, so I thought I’d go ahead. On this: As Matt Stoller argued in a genuinely brilliant essay on the history of progressivism and the [...]
What’s the Point?
Unless you’re completely new to the blog, you know that I disagree with the two key premises underlying Matt Stoller’s call for a primary challenge against Obama. First, I think it’s silly to see the Obama administration as an extension of the Bush administration. And second, I don’t agree with the Beltway pundit assumption that [...]