Political Theatre category archive
Crass Acts 0
It appears that Maine’s Governor LePage is Chris Christie without the suave veneer of urbane sophistication.
Wars and Mongers of War 0
Marco Rubio gets in touch with his inner warmonger.
Making Book, First Edition 0
Subtitle: How To Game the System in an Attempt To Get Ghostwritten Hackery on the Best-Seller List
If you prefer, here is the Reader’s Digest Condensed Book version.
The Big Freud 0
Donald Trump is the Republican id writ large.
Reince Cycle 0
Reince Priebus tries to clear Trumps.
All the News that Fits 0
Sauce for the goose, but not for the gander. Joe Conason explains:
Which, under present circumstances, might be justified—she happens to be running for president—except for one glaring problem. Very few in the press corps apply the same standards to any Republican politician.
Nobody will ever get to see the thousands of messages erased from the private email account used by former Secretary of State Colin Powell when he held that high office. He got rid of them and got away with it (as most likely did former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who implausibly claimed not to have used email, when the State Department asked for hers).
It goes on. Read it.
I don’t have to be a Clinton fan to say that Conason is quite correct on this one. When she is the topic, the press turns into some weird political Humbert Humbert gripped by a forbidden compulsion.
Via Progressive Populist.
Helm’s Derp 0
Juanita Jean has the scoop.
Chris-Crossed 0
Chris Christie puts on the squeeze.
Neck-and-Neck 0
Daniel Ruth is optimistic about his chances in Iowa:
To date, I’ve received at least three or four emails encouraging my campaign. And Thomas and Carol Epstein of St. Pete Beach sent in a $1,000 donation. Unfortunately, it was in the form of fake Confederate currency. But it’s the thought that counts.
But what has really inspired me to find the inner strength to carry on has been the fact that both my political machine and the campaign juggernaut of South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham are virtually polling neck and neck in Iowa at zero percent.
East Is East and West Is West and Word Scaliad 0
Jack Ohman takes issue with Anthony (I almost typed “Antonin”) Scalia’s claim that California, the compass and the redwood forests to the contrary notwithstanding, is not a western state. Here’s bit:
Chris-Crossed 0
Alfred Doblin, who at one time thought favorably of Chris Christie, is now less than enamored.
Nor is being blunt a sign of leadership; it’s just rudeness. Being a leader means staying until the job is finished, not until you find something better. Most important, public service is not a means to an end; it is the destination.