Thursday, December 18, 2003
Things Stupid and Not
Scroll to the bottom of this page for a nominee for Bonehead Political Quote of the Year. And this is coming from an otherwise smart guy, mind you. As Joe Conason once said of Wesley Clark, "It's a case of a smart man saying stupid things while pandering."
This, however, is a different matter. It's a Washington Post article by a former Clinton Administration official and sometime NPR commentator named Everett Ehrlich. Ehrlich's main point--that Howard Dean is accomplishing what amounts of a leveraged buyout of the old Democratic Party--makes you slap your forehead ("D'oh!") and wonder why you didn't see it yourself. (After you read the article, read the analysis by Mickey Kaus here--scroll down to the subheading "Waiting for Perot--or Someone Like Him," which is also the title of the main piece. Mickey, you gotta provide permalinks to individual entries.)
Scroll to the bottom of this page for a nominee for Bonehead Political Quote of the Year. And this is coming from an otherwise smart guy, mind you. As Joe Conason once said of Wesley Clark, "It's a case of a smart man saying stupid things while pandering."
This, however, is a different matter. It's a Washington Post article by a former Clinton Administration official and sometime NPR commentator named Everett Ehrlich. Ehrlich's main point--that Howard Dean is accomplishing what amounts of a leveraged buyout of the old Democratic Party--makes you slap your forehead ("D'oh!") and wonder why you didn't see it yourself. (After you read the article, read the analysis by Mickey Kaus here--scroll down to the subheading "Waiting for Perot--or Someone Like Him," which is also the title of the main piece. Mickey, you gotta provide permalinks to individual entries.)
