I Never Expected Much from The Weekly Standard
By Jake Blumgart - Jan 19th, 2009 at 1:02 pmI never expected much from The Weekly Standard: a dash of jingoistic tripe here, a slap of archaic cultural conservatism there, the kind of intellectually…
Posts Tagged ‘Hillary Clinton’
Changing the Mindset
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 19th, 2008 at 5:00 pmThings like this, from Eli Lake at his new perch at the Washington Times, might just convince me that Hillary Clinton’s selection as Secretary of…
You Can’t Sexually Harass Cardboard
By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 8th, 2008 at 11:54 amFar be it from me to tell any non-partisan watchdog group what to do with its time, but surely they have better things to do…
Jon Favreau Has Torrid Affair With Cardboard Clinton Cutout
By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 5th, 2008 at 2:47 pmThis is a pretty good example of exactly why the job application for any West Wing position asks about the accounts one has on Facebook,…
Holbrooke to South Asia?
By Matt Zeitlin - Dec 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pmRichard Holbrooke was one of those Democratic foreign policy gurus whose reputation and future employment prospects were all but ruined by his vociferous support for…
Kurtzner for Envoy
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 2nd, 2008 at 1:10 pmWell, this is certainly encouraging:
President-elect Barack Obama is considering the appointment of Daniel Kurtzer, former American Ambassador to Egypt (1997-2001) and Israel (2001-2005), to…
Why Don’t Policymakers Study Policy?
By Dylan Matthews - Dec 1st, 2008 at 1:57 pmLast week, Dani Rodrik made a very good point:
If you are bright and are contemplating a potential career in American politics, you go to…
The Cabinet
By Ned Resnikoff - Dec 1st, 2008 at 1:21 pmLike Dylan, I’m not exactly ecstatic about the way Obama’s State Department is taking shape–but Yglesias has a little history lesson for today that’s making…
Silly Parts of the Constitution
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 30th, 2008 at 1:17 pmAlthough I have my own problems with Senator Clinton becoming Secretary of State, the fact that her appointment could possibly violate the Constitution should be…
Incentives Matter
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 24th, 2008 at 10:17 amI never cease to be amazed at the degree to which an election in which America’s left-of-center party won 365 electoral votes and at least…
Taste We Can Believe In
By Dylan Matthews - Nov 21st, 2008 at 3:51 pmYou know he’s a baller. You know he’s a nerd. But did you know Barack Obama is a picky eater, too (via)?
Obama was abstemious.…
Questions to Matt Re: Clinton as Secretary of State
By Rob Anderson - Nov 20th, 2008 at 11:59 amYesterday, Matt argued that Bill Clinton’s post-presidency work–”running around the world, giving paid speeches to foreign governments and corporations in combination with his fundraising for…
Why Bill Disqualifies Hillary for Secretary of State
By Matt Zeitlin - Nov 19th, 2008 at 3:56 pmPerhaps I’m being simple minded, but it seems like Bill Clinton’s recent activities running around the world, giving paid speeches to foreign governments and corporations…
Secretary of State Question
By Daniel Strauss - Nov 18th, 2008 at 4:18 pmTa-Nehisi wonders if Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State is just about “healing old wounds.” I do hear an underlying “don’t exclude her” plea behind…
New Hampshire is for the Ladies
By Jessica Hillyard - Nov 10th, 2008 at 11:00 amVia Feministe, another milestone of this historic election occurred in New Hampshire, where women now make up more than half of the elected members of…
