Notes from All Over

Notes from All Over

The DLC gets tactical: if the Democrats win, it’s because of Dean’s 50-state strategy, because of insurgents like Tester in Montana, and because the electorate treated this as a parliamentary referendum on Bush. How weird to have increasingly irrelevant DLC Democrats trying to spin the victory as theirs. Joe Lieberman is not the future of the Democratic party. Being a Republican is not the future of the Democratic party. Populism — with a strong dash of social libertarianism — is much more likely to be the future of the Democratic party.
Brad DeLong has been reading the news and it makes him shrill. You will be too.
Politicians think we, the public, are dirty. Given that people wash their hands much less than they used to, it might even be true…
DOD official says some Guantanamo detainees may be imprisoned for life. Not to mention that it may take that long before they get a fair trial.
Morton Mintz: Will We Stay Forever in Iraq? The White House Won’t Say

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