Pew Poll: Obama vs. the Bishops
Among Catholics who have heard about the issue: 55% favor exemptions from HHS directive 39% don’t Protestants: 51% yes 39% no All voters: 48% yes 44% no Quick Analysis: This is not a non-issue.
Tagged: Obama
Sullivan, Obama, and Elections
Let me get this out of the way first. I like Andrew Sullivan, appreciate a lot of the work he produces, and can cite the Dish as an enormous triumph in blogging that is both...
Critiquing Andrew Sullivan’s Critique of Critiques
Andrew Sullivan has written a long piece for the magazine version of Newsweek responding to the prevailing critiques of Obama from both the right and left. He charges that the criticisms aren’t just “out...
Our Feckless Discourse About Immigration
Just a quick followup on Tod’s post about the debate. As has been widely reported for several days now, Obama set a new deportation record in the last fiscal year (narrowly edging out the previous record,...
Why Don’t Liberals Care About Foreign Policy?
~by Ryan B. Now, not to pick on Matt Yglesias, because I don’t think he’s necessarily worse than most of the center-left-type bloggers out there, but he recently put up two posts that rubbed...
Storytelling & Politics
Drew Westen’s piece on the failure of the president to tell the right stories has met with much ire across the blogosphere. I find this odd. After all, the same people who often say...
Obama, the left, and the two-party system
~by Shawn Gude Freddie deBoer had a good post recently bemoaning Obama’s illiberal tendencies. You should read the whole thing, but this passage touches on something I’ve been thinking about lately: Not a day...
We wouldn’t be in this mess if John McCain had won in 2008
We’d probably be in all sorts of other messes if McCain had won the presidential election in 2008, but I think in many ways we’d be in a very different pickle than the one...
Cutting Jobs Instead of Bombs
I don’t understand our political leaders. They’re so interested in cutting spending on healthcare and retirement – even the Democratic president is eager to start hacking away at entitlements – yet almost none of...
Strategy and politics in Afghanistan
I bridle at the contention – apparently endorsed by all but one of the Republican presidential candidates – that a bunch of unelected generals should be dictating foreign policy. If President Obama believes that...
There Is No Offseason
by Lester Freamon Some people think that the division of American political culture into Team Red vs. Team Blue is simplistic or unnecessarily antagonistic. I don’t. This kind of tribal motivation, specifically the cultural...
Are Liberals Nihilistically Tolerant?
~ by Elia Isquire Sally Kohn has a piece in Friday’s Washington Post that makes the argument that, yes, they are: [T]olerant Democrats are not only capitulating to negotiations over how much to starve...
Quote for the day
“The glib hubris of Libya is a sign that the change we hoped for really has morphed into the wet military dreams of neoconservatism and the utopian notion of the US as the rescuer...
No country for old dictators
As far as I’m concerned there are no good arguments for intervention in Libya. Reports that we’ve saved 100,000 lives there strike me as no better than propaganda. After all, 100,000 was the number...
The bad logic of intervention in Libya
Marc Lynch explains the strategic importance of intervention in Libya (via the Dish): Libya matters to the United States not for its oil or intrinsic importance, but because it has been a key part...
Quote of the Day – Daley Kos Edition
“Is there anyone out there who thinks Obama is going to come to the podium on Monday and say ‘I was pretty confident about my pick of Daley as my Chief of Staff, but...
Why Obama Deserves Credit for DADT Repeal
by Rob Harbaugh [Note: In the DADT open thread, I said that I would get the thoughts of a friend of mine, who had experience with the legislative process, having worked on Capitol Hill...
Obama does the Daily Show
I agree entirely with Jonah Goldberg’s viewing of the Obama/Jon Stewart interview: I apologize for not focusing on this pressing matter earlier, but I’ve only just now actually watched the apparently infamous "dude" scene...
Actually, I’d like to know how D’Souza thinks
I realize that political publications lob softball questions at ideological fellow-travelers all the time, but National Review’s “interview” with Dinesh D’Souza about his bizarre Forbes cover story is truly embarrassing. First, he gets basic...
Treason is a crime
Kevin Williamson speaks truth to power. Or to Andy McArthy. Either way, it’s awesome: Whatever kind of conservatism is arguing that we should invest the president with sole, secret, unreviewable authority to order the...
