George Will edition. As expected, the plaintive wailing will begin with people who find the basic idea of Democrats in power offensive. FOX News will be next of course. Over the past week, seeing some moderator literally begging her panelists to blame Nancy Pelosi for something was sadly typical. I’m sure that it won’t be …
Archives for November 2006
A Small Step
We never get any good news around here, so here is a small piece: The cost of treating children infected with H.I.V. and AIDS is poised to plummet next year, under a deal announced today between two Indian drugmakers and former President Bill Clinton’s foundation. Cipla and Ranbaxy Laboratories agreed to make 19 different anti-retroviral …
Jumping the Gun
This is the kind of story that has to drive politicians nuts: It was a solemn pledge, repeated by Democratic leaders and candidates over and over: If elected to the majority in Congress, Democrats would implement all of the recommendations of the bipartisan commission that examined the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. But with control …
Blaming The Soldiers
Is wrong, unless you have to in order to cover-up for the incompetence of a Republican administration: In his first detailed public statement since his nomination as defense secretary, Robert M. Gates criticized the Pentagon as failing to prepare adequately for securing Iraq after the invasion in 2003. Asked in a questionnaire from the Senate …
The Christianist Debate
I see that Andrew Sullivan has been sucked into a war of the words against the self-annointed net-nanny Ann Althouse and self-styled libertarian Glenn Reynolds over the term Christianist. Says Glenn: I continue to think that the term draws an unfair equivalence between Islamist terror, and mere Christian social conservatism, which are hardly comparable. I …
The Scandal That Wasn’t
Until now I have passed on the apparently scintillating question of who Nancy Pelosi would pick to chair the Defense Committee for two reasons. First, the idea that she could only pick Jane Harman or Alcee Hastings seemed silly. Second, I don’t understand getting worked up about something that Pelosi hasn’t done yet. Well, I …
Open Thread
Tell me what I am missing.