2007_06_10_archive

Late Night

Rock on.

-Atrios 23:35

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Sunday Roofdeck Blogging

Cabrito edition.

And here's a cat, just so you know he isn't on the grill.

-Atrios 21:00

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Evening Thread

Enjoy.

-Atrios 18:26

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Genuinely Disturbed

Indeed.

-Atrios 16:24

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Best Broder Ever

One of my favorite columns by Broder was when he got in a high snit

when a bunch of history professors signed a letter condemning the

Clinton impeachment. The beginning and ending:

When academics decide to become activists, they sometimes bring

badly needed wisdom and perspective to raging political

debates. But when they plunge in heedlessly, they risk looking

ridiculous.

Both sides were on display last week at a hotel ballroom where

three noted American historians -- speaking for more than 400

of their profession -- unloaded a broadside condemnation of the

impeachment proceedings the House has voted to begin against

President Clinton.

The rhetoric of their statement, read by Arthur M. Schlesinger

Jr. of City University of New York, began on a relatively calm

note and built to a tantrum.

...

This tenured trashing of Congress for meeting its

responsibility says more about the state of the history

profession than about the law of the land.

Class dismissed.

In Broder's world, not even elite history professors should dare

express opinions about goings on in Broderville, let alone voters or

dirty fucking hippie bloggers.

-Atrios 15:28

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Fresh Thread

Enjoy.

-Atrios 15:18

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Swampland

In this edition, Joe Klein comes to understand that the "precipitous

withdrawal" he keeps saying politicians are supporting is, in fact,

impossible, but then still imagines they support it anyway.

-Atrios 11:42

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Intensity

This article makes the simple point that opposition to the immigration

bill was much more intense than its support. That's true for the

obvious reason that it was a "compromise" which left little for

potential supporters to be thrilled about.

The takeaway lesson is that if intensity of support is important for

achieving legislative goals, one should perhaps craft legislation that

can actually receive intense support. I recognize that given the

senate makeup the odds of something like that passing aren't too high,

but the supposed compromise didn't pass either. It'd be nice to

actually give supporters something to, you know, support for a change.

And I'm not just talking about immigration.

-Atrios 11:30

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Laura Goes Wild

Wearing a veil in the Vatican!

-Atrios 11:23

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Wanker of the Day

Ryan Grim.

-Atrios 10:51

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Official Washington

In all of its glory.

-Atrios 10:06

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Sunday Bobbleheads

Document the atrocities.

ABC's "This Week" -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. 8 a.m.

CBS' "Face the Nation" -- White House press secretary Tony

Snow; Sen. Joe Lieberman, Connecticut independent. 8:30 a.m.

NBC's "Meet the Press" -- Former Secretary of State Colin

Powell. 5 a.m.; also 7 p.m. on MSNBC.

CNN's "Late Edition" -- Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Evan Bayh,

D-Ind.; Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesman; Commerce Secretary

Carlos Gutierrez; Gov. Bill Richardson, D-N.M.; former Gov.

Mike Huckabee, R-Ark. 8 a.m.

Channel: 2 "Fox News Sunday" -- Snow, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.

4 p.m.; also 3 p.m. on Fox News Channel.

you've got to be kidding.

-Atrios 10:01

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Morning Thread

I'll insert a blogwhore later. Let's just say The Creation Museum

website crashed my browser.

--Molly Ivors

-Thers 09:41

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