Well, the #dickwhisperer sure has stepped in it now: The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza host a regular video feature on the paper’s site called “Mouthpiece Theater.” The two sit around in smoking jackets in a fake library — it’s supposed to be a parody of “Masterpiece Theater” — and try to offer …
Archives for July 2009
At Least They Didn’t Shoot Him
Charming: via videosift.com Someone tell Rudy Giuliani to shut up.
And the Greatest Generation Sez “I Got Mine”
Tom Brokaw, eat your heart out: Seniors are the least likely of all age groups in the U.S. to say that healthcare reform will benefit their personal healthcare situation. By a margin of three to one, 36% to 12%, adults 65 and older are more likely to believe healthcare reform will reduce rather than expand …
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Another Story to Watch
This could be interesting: The Justice Department and Swiss banking giant UBS have struck a tentative deal on IRS demands for the names of 52,000 wealthy American clients of the bank, lawyers for both sides said Friday. “The parties have reached an agreement in principle on the major issues,” Stuart Gibson, a Justice Department tax …
Taking It To a New Level
I’m sort of used to people just making things up in politics these days, but this sort of takes things to a new level: Freshman Democratic congressman Tom Perriello — whose Virginia district leans Republican — faced a tough decision last month over whether to support the climate change bill. As he was weighing the …
Ezra obliterates McMeghan
And to think they were making cooking videos together only a few years ago: In my chat today, a reader asked me to respond to Megan McArdle’s lengthy case against national health insurance. The problem is that, well, there’s not a lot to specifically respond to. In 1,600 words, she doesn’t muster a single link …
A Small Success
Looks like cash for clunkers was popular: New-car shoppers appear to have already snapped up all the $1 billion that Congress appropriated for the “cash for clunkers” program, leading the Transportation Department to tell auto dealers Thursday night to stop offering the rebates. But a White House official said the program had not been suspended, …