Political Theatre category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Facing South says, “Well, maybe not so much.”
A snippet. Do please read the rest.
“The Smart One” 0
You know things are not looking up when the a new slogan is the cure-all.
What If Someone Proposed a Bill and Nobody Noticed? 0
Everybody’s a narcissist.
“It is completely reprehensible that people were sitting there on [parliament’s] opening day and tweeting,” Kjærsgaard told BT.
Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing 0
Meanwhile, the Bangor Daily News carries Frances Wilkerson’s column pointing out that, regarding the Republican Party, there’s no longer any there there other than inarticulate formless rage. A snippet:
“The Smart One” 0
Daniel Ruth asses Jeb!‘s debate performance and is not impressed. A nugget:
Bush is wrong, of course. He is indeed a performer in the political theater of the GOP presidential nominating process. He’s just not very good at it.
The Candidates Debate 0
Catherine Rampell spells out what lessons Republican candidates have learned from the media coverage of first three Republican debates. Here are the main points; follow the link for her evidence for each one:
- Lesson No. 1: Lie, but lie confidently.
- Lesson No. 2: Invent your own math.
- Lesson No. 3: If you can’t think of something better to say, just bash the media.
And, in a related story, Joel Connelly reminds us that we’ve heard it all before.