The Mahablog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today President Obama is scheduled to announce sending more troops to Afghanistan. I have withheld criticism of this until I hear what the plan is, exactly. But I have misgivings, to say the least, and I’m sure many of you do also. So what does Dana Milbank focus on in his column today? He thinks we [...]
An American Lion (Free subscription) | yesterday
... applauding or shouting “Hoo-ah” at the right moments. This is unnecessary snark, but Milbank deals in that sort of thing. He’s a snark merchant, a man who uses it without realizing he has no moral authority to do so. Apply it to Tiger Woods, someone’s gaffe, or public policy if you want. Don’t apply it to matters of life and death, war and the escalation of...
Outside the Beltway (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dana Milbank starts an otherwise thoughtful piece with a rather sophomoric attempt at humor: First, the good news: President Obama will not be wearing a flight suit when he addresses the cadets at West Point on Tuesday night. Nor will he wear a bomber jacket with the presidential seal on the chest, nor even, the White [...]
Bench Memos (Free subscription) | yesterday
Not surprisingly, lots of commentators have lazily condemned as hypocritical the effort by various Republican senators to filibuster the Seventh Circuit nomination of David Hamilton. (The Washington Post ’s editorial “ Giving hypocrisy a bad name ” and Dana Milbank’s column are typical examples.) Although I disagree with the filibuster effort (for the reasons...
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Dana Milbank WashPost Tuesday, December 1, 2009 First, the good news: President Obama will not be wearing a flight suit when he addresses the cadets at West Point on Tuesday night. Nor will he wear a bomber jacket with the presidential seal on the chest, nor even, the White House promises, a windbreaker with the word ARMY in big letters. "You can count on no military garb,"...
TFS Magnum (Free subscription) | yesterday
If this article is any indication. Dana Milbank - Washington Sketch: The perils of being commander in chief - washingtonpost.comComparisons with Carter from the right, now comparisons with Bush from the Left.And here's a news flash: Michael Moore doesn't think much of sending more troops to Afghanistan.
Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
By Dana Milbank WashPost Wednesday, November 25, 2009 The nation's bankers have much to be thankful for as they sit down to their turkey dinners on Thursday. At this time last year, the American financial system was near collapse, rescued only by hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars. Now the system has stabilized, and the industry is on the verge of a coup that many would have thought...
Kevin Drum - Mother Jones (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
I've sometimes wondered what it would take to get a guy like Dana Milbank to wipe the smirk off his face and get genuinely outraged. Now I know: listening in on a call with the finance lobby. On Tuesday, the American Financial Services Association even held a conference call with reporters to update them on its efforts — successful so far — to torpedo plans for a new Consumer...
Ron Hebron (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... for her state. But Landrieu responded angrily that she wasn't so cheap. She got $300 million. Dana Milbank - Sweeteners for the South : On the eve of Saturday's showdown in the Senate over health-care reform, Democratic leaders still hadn't secured the support of Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), one of the 60 votes needed to keep the legislation alive. The wavering lawmaker was offered...
Shakespeare's Sister (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... sweetener in exchange for her vote. I'll just reiterate what I said when Washington Post reporters Dana Milbank and Chris Cillizza were pulling similar bullshit : I'd love to hear Time explain how they feel confident their contributors are giving balanced coverage to female public figures when they consider the above acceptable commentary. Yes, the image was pulled, but Mark Halperin...
Magic Negro Watch (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
... compliance. Being intellectually lazy has it price. I posted the following on January 29, 2009 By Dana Milbank - Washington Post The lawmakers gazed in awe at the figure before them. The Goracle had seen the future, and he had come to tell them about it. What the Goracle saw in the future was not good: temperature changes that "would bring a screeching halt to human civilization...
Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The Senate finally confirmed Obama's first judicial nominee, Judge David Hamilton, for a spot on the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, after months of delay from Republicans - the same Republicans who went ballistic when the same thing was done to Republican judicial nominees over the last 8 years. And as Dana Milbank documents , it took some serious situational ethics to justify it. Read...
