Open Thread
October 30th, 2006 11:02 AM
Today's starter: Are conservatives who stay home on election day insulting the troops by not voting?
Krugman-Herbert: Double Dose of Doom-'n-Gloom
October 30th, 2006 5:51 AM
I looked around when I heard someone crying, and there was Pollyanna bawling her eyes out. That's how depressing was the one-two punch of pessimism in Paul Krugman's and Bob Herbert's New York Times pay-to-peruse columns of today.Just in time for the elections, the pair paint a picture of America so dreary you half-expected the Google logarithm to place Prozac ads on the page. Krugman tries to…
Matthews' Selective 'Sopranos' Outrage: OK Against Republicans, Bad Ag
October 29th, 2006 5:22 AM
When it comes to using Mafia references for political purposes, Chris Matthews has a one-way sense of outrage. OK for slurring Republicans. Bad, bad, bad when used against Dems.Matthews is the king of MSM conniption fits over Republican ads. He pounded for days on the RNC ad about Harold Ford, Jr., accusing RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman of "cesspool" tactics and claiming the ad played to white…
