"Does A Speaker Survive This?"/"Will Boehner’s speakership survive until Plan C?"

Talking Points Memo / Ezra Klein. Meme watch. Coming in from the left. ADDED: Here 's the presentation of the same material, from the ri...

"If they decide this [against ObamaCare] by 5-4, then yes, it’s disheartening to me, because my life was a fraud."

"Here I was, in my silly little office, thinking law mattered, and it really didn’t. What mattered was politics, money, party, and part...

The 4 Mistakes of Ezra Klein... [ADDED: or Rich Yeselson].

1. He's written a blog post titled "The four habits of highly successful social movements," but he never talks about any habi...

Why do Democrats want high taxation as their brand?

Ezra Klein's piece this morning is headlined: "Democrats will lose now. But they can win later." The next thing you see is a ...

"Whom will the public blame for debtageddon?"

Asks Ezra Klein , with prissily correct grammar and a neologism that reminds us of the recent Armageddon that wasn't: Carmageddon . I...

Ezra Klein says the Republicans have won and now please can they stop?

Because "if they push it over the brink, they're likely to lose..." There you have it. Ezra says you've won, now stop winn...

Ezra Klein "felt a swell of patriotism" when he read that "bin Laden's body would be handled in accordance with Islamic practice and tradition."

"Somehow, that’s a nice, final touch. But it speaks to what bin Laden was: a bag of bones and meat. A body, like any other. Most of wha...

"Any delusions that Journo-List was not, in part, a collusory venture..."

"... to shape the media narrative in ways to benefit Obama, above and beyond ferreting out the truth about any and all candidates, must...

"On Sept. 8, 2008, five days after Palin’s national debut, some members of the group discussed producing coordinated propaganda designed to wound Palin and boost Obama."

Writes Jonathan Strong in The Daily Caller: Ryan Avent, then a freelance blogger for the Economist, now an editor there, complained that Oba...

Is Rush Limbaugh an oil-spill truther?

Or is Ezra Klein a humor-deaf Rush-hater?

The Senate finally passes the health care bill — and the question is, for people who wanted the bill to pass: How good or bad are they supposed to feel?

Liberals mull nuancefully: "There is so much that is wrong with it -- and the way it was made -- and, at the same time, so much that is...

Ezra Klein responds to Jane Hamsher's 10 reasons to kill the health care bill.

The liberals are fighting amongst themselves, forcing out some useful points.

Why did the NYT Magazine flatter Rush Limbaugh? The cowards!

Ezra Klein is bent out of shape: [T]he Times appears to have challenged itself to write 8,000 words on Limbaugh without saying anything that...

"It was on a blog, so I don't know if it's actually true..."

Said Rush Limbaugh, quoting something that some blogger said came from David Brooks of the New York Times. (Subscriber link to the radio s...

"In truth, I am so very close to the place where Ann’s favorite post-dinner beverage is made."

Good lord, Nina's back in France again. Investigating cognac , apparently. Me, I'm in the U.S.A., in Madison's southern counter...

Why aren't we paying much attention to the most qualified Democratic candidate in the race?

Matt Yglesias wonders (via Memeorandum ): [Bill Richardson is] the popular, second-term governor of a swing state -- you know, the sort of ...

Liberals ideate furiously over the black-and-white McCain website.

John McCain has an aesthetically pleasing website , which is distinguished by the very low color level. Instead of the usual florid blue and...

"I find this very much akin to what we did with C-SPAN about 25-30 years ago."

HuffPo has a piece about Bloggingheads.tv — including the news that C-SPAN founding chairman Bob Rosencrans is putting money into it: Rose...

Why are libertarians so interested in philosophy?

Ezra Klein and Will Wilkinson talk about "liberaltarians" on BloggingHeadsTV. Ezra (the liberal) starts if off by asking Will (th...

Sprezzatura.

Well, I see that The New Republic 's Lee Siegel has gone and gotten himself into trouble by participating in the production of blog com...