The Silver Jews’ Frontman Hates Corporate Lobbying… and Dad?
By Jake Blumgart - Jan 30th, 2009 at 4:34 pmThis is too good.
It turns out that David Berman, front man of the Silver Jews, is the son of the Richard Berman, one of…
Posts Tagged ‘government’
The Only Pundit Mentally Ill Enough to Defend Blagojevich
By Ned Resnikoff - Jan 27th, 2009 at 11:17 am…is one Geraldo Rivera.
I have no idea what the hell Geraldo is talking about here. Not only does he never quite elucidate why he…
The Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Corruption
By Dylan Matthews - Jan 26th, 2009 at 12:33 pmAfter Rod Blagojevich compared his travails to Pearl Harbor, Ned and I were joking about what crazy analogies he was going to come up with…
Obama Ends Torture, Takes Advantage of Unprecedented Executive Power
By Jamelle Bouie - Jan 26th, 2009 at 9:34 amCommenting on Barack Obama’s first week in the Oval Office, Salon’s Mike Madden noted that “with a few strokes of a pen… President Obama undid…
Dick Cheney’s View On Why Dick Cheney Can Do Whatever He Wants
By Daniel Strauss - Dec 26th, 2008 at 2:31 pmLately, still-Vice-President Dick Cheney has been doing a number of interviews, sharing his rationale for why the executive should not have to answer to anyone,…
Salty Dogs
By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 15th, 2008 at 4:07 pmThe closer we get to the new legislative session, the clearer it becomes that the Senate is going to be the problem house for any…
The South Will Get Cabinet Seats Again!
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 15th, 2008 at 2:11 pmThis Politico article, covering some anonymous grumbling that Obama hasn’t appointed a Southerner to his cabinet, is remarkably silly. One the most basic level, all…
Gary Bauer is in Conservative Fantasy Land
By L. Russell Allen - Dec 15th, 2008 at 11:50 amFormer Republican presidential candidate Gary Bauer has published an article for the conservative publication Human Events. Its thesis: that the Obama transition has failed to…
“Open for Questions”: The Results
By Emily Rutherford - Dec 15th, 2008 at 11:16 amJesse wrote on Thursday about “Open for Questions,” the Obama transition team’s Web 2.0 effort to allow visitors to Change.gov to vote on what questions…
Blagojevich! The Musical!
By Daniel Strauss - Dec 12th, 2008 at 10:43 amEvery once in a while my former boss, Ben Greenman, writes lyrics to musicals based on current events. I give you Blagojevich! The Musical, his…
It Gets Worse For Zell
By Daniel Strauss - Dec 11th, 2008 at 3:10 pmThis is not Sam Zell’s week. Via Chicagoist:
What a week for Sam Zell. First, his company filed for bankruptcy on Monday. Then on Tuesday,…
Your Word For Me Is Fusion, but Is Real Change An Illusion?
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 11th, 2008 at 1:30 pmObviously, the big Obama event today was his press conference on his health care team and the Blagojevich scandal, but he also has this on…
Thank Heaven for Blagojevich
By Jesse Singal - Dec 11th, 2008 at 10:59 amDoes anyone else feel weirdly relieved by the Rod Blagojevich scandal? That, at the tail end of eight years that saw some of the most…
Coleman Under Federal Investigation
By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pmWell this is another fascinating turn in the ongoing Coleman-Franken vote count soap opera. Given all of the hubbub over where Coleman got his suits,…
Candidate Five is Jesse Jackson Jr.
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 10th, 2008 at 12:51 pmWell, scratch that Danny Davis talk. ABC News reports:
Chicago Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL) is the anonymous “Senate Candidate #5″ whose emissaries Illinois Governor…
