Mark Lilla’s “Tea Party Jacobins” and the elision of Watergate
Lots of people have flagged Mark Lilla’s piece in the New York Review of Books, and with good reason. Lilla does an excellent job of looking at the big picture and long term trends, putting together pieces and a coherent…
Even Fox News rejects Mike Pence’s claims on Gulf oil spill
Hoosier Congressman Mike Pence took to the floor of the House of Representatives to demand an investigation into what happened on April 20, 2010. But he’s not interested in what caused the Deep Horizon oil rig to explode – he…
Evan Bayh doesn’t get it
Evan Bayh’s latest statewide email blast (about election reform) starts with the populist headline, “Power to the People.” But like too many things in Evan Bayh’s career, what starts out with such promise quickly becomes a vanity project. Since announcing…
Mitch Daniels’ “fiscal responsibility” doesn’t include checking his math
Is it pride? Ideology? Pandering in pursuit of his ambition? Whatever the reason, Mitch Daniels is refusing to double-check Anthem’s request to drastically increase health insurance rates for Hoosiers. I guess all that talk about being fiscally responsible is –…
Mike Pence schooled by David Gregory on national television
On Sunday’s Meet the Press, host David Gregory interrupted Rep. Mike Pence’s rant about immigration to point out that it was Republicans who killed immigration reform in 2007. Seriously, how inane do your talking points have to be for Dancing…
CBPP demolishes Mitch Daniels’ lies about cost of health care reform
Ouch. This has to leave a mark. The Star’s Bill Ruthart had a pretty good piece about this too, juxtaposing Daniel’s fact-free scaremongering with rational quotes from Tim Kaine and Kathleen Sebelius. (Health-care reform: Daniels still doubtful about cost, state’s…
Confessions of a (non-NYer) Yankees Fan
Hope all my fellow Bloomington residents picked up a copy of April’s The Ryder magazine. (They seem to be a few months behind on posting the issues online, unfortunately.) Along with a smart piece by the great Hoosier songwriter Tom…
Krugman on the Lowden Plan (Chickens for Checkups)
With all due respect to Mr. Krugman, I think that people DO understand the absurdity of this. As I mentioned yesterday, the Lowden Plan calculator (http://lowdenplan.com/) showed that my recent MRI would have cost 462 chickens. Since my last name…
A successful stimulus bill would look a lot like the one that was passed
Unfortunately, the one thing Leonhardt gets wrong is the idea that aid to states won’t just sit in accounts – unfortunately, that’s exactly what’s happening in Indiana, thanks to Bush’s man Mitch. (See “Most stimulus cash for state sits unspent”)…
