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On Van Jones: An RBC Dissent

It's always risking disagreeing with Harold, because the odds of being wrong asymptotically approach 100%. But I'm going to, anyway: I think that Jones should stay. This is all in the manner of Inside-the-Beltway scalp-chasing: you give them one, ...

From J ZASLOFF, The Reality-Based Community,  4 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Bob McDonnell,  Dick Cheney,  Glenn Beck

The Fire This Time

Here in southern California, we are currently living through our annual late August-early September ritual of wildfires. In the San Fernando Valley, where I live, the air is heavy with smoke, and people are staying inside. It was worse in Pasadena, ...

From J ZASLOFF, The Reality-Based Community,  30 Aug 2009

Does Bill Bradley Understand Republicans?

Since the days of Harry Truman, Democrats have wanted universal health coverage, believing that if other industrialized countries can achieve it, surely the United States can. For Democrats, universal coverage speaks to Americas sense of decency and ...

From J ZASLOFF, The Reality-Based Community,  30 Aug 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Bill Bradley,  Barack Obama,  Harry Truman

Health Care: The LA Times Gets Spun AGAIN

The Los Angeles Times is, of course, the nation's worst newspaper, and Janet Hook's piece yesterday on health care shows why. Hook got spun so completely that I'm sure she doesn't even know which direction she faces when she sees the sun set. Her ...

From J ZASLOFF, The Reality-Based Community,  29 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Republican Party,  Edward M. Kennedy,  Robert Reich,  Joe Lieberman

Edward Kennedy, RIP

Everyone will have their own memories and views, of course: here is a great one by Charles Pierce from 2003. I suppose for me, one thing that stands out about Ted Kennedy was that he could find his true calling once he had finally put away what ...

From J ZASLOFF, The Reality-Based Community,  26 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Edward M. Kennedy,  Charles Pierce,  U.S. Senate

A cap-and-trade system in India?

India has approved in principle new trading plans centred on energy efficiency as part of efforts to shift to a greener economy to fight climate change, opening up a potential market worth more than $15 billion by 2015. The plan involves creating a ...

From J ZASLOFF, The Reality-Based Community,  25 Aug 2009

Messaging the Public Option: the Jerry Maguire Strategy

Q: Will President Obama sign a bill without a public option? Despite Conor Clarke's reasonable suggestion that every blog post that can be written about the public option has already been written, here's another one. Here's the problem: the ...

From J ZASLOFF, The Reality-Based Community,  18 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Senate,  Kathleen Sebelius,  Kent Conrad

Health Reform and Budget Reconciliation AGAIN

But the only "expert" that will really count in this case is the Senate parliamentarian, who has the responsibility to determine which provisions run afoul of the Byrd Rule. It will be a matter of the Senate parliamentarian tossing out provisions ...

From J ZASLOFF, The Reality-Based Community,  18 Aug 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  Kevin Drum

Why Does Mike Huckabee Want to Destroy Israel?

Fine, Mike: what are we supposed to do with the Palestinians? If you let them vote in Israel, then Israel will soon be an Arab state. If you don't, then Israel isn't a democracy. What's your solution? As morally horrific as the settlements are, they ...

From J ZASLOFF, The Reality-Based Community,  18 Aug 2009
Related Topics: Mike Huckabee,  Ariel Sharon,  Levi Eshkol

The Point of the Whole Foods Boycott and What John Mackey Should Do

Patrick Appel asks what I want (well, sort of -- he asks what the boycotters want). It's a fair question. I can't obviously speak for everyone, but I can make clear what was so outrageous about John Mackey's statements. Radley Balko makes it seem like ...

From J ZASLOFF, The Reality-Based Community,  17 Aug 2009
Related Topics: John Mackey,  U.S. Republican Party,  Wall Street Journal,  Kenneth Arrow

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