TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Ezra Klein can not get away with writing this : As the Internet becomes more and more pervasive and job applicants have a longer and longer paper trail, prospective employers are going to have to overlook a public record containing opinions that, in previous eras, they would never have seen, and would never have tolerated. Come to think of it, my presence at The Washington Post is probably...
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Ezra Klein: >Ezra Klein: Noam Scheiber defends Timothy Geithner against those demanding his resignation. Scheiber is right on the merits, I think, but the politics matter. Whether Geithner did his best against a bad hand, he created a public relations disaster by bailing out Wall Street and returning it to wild profitability without doing something, anything, to satiate...
Jaltcoh (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
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Craig Cheslog (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
Ezra Klein has posted a memo sent to President Johnson in 1964, one which highlights just how much the use of the filibuster has changed since then. As Klein notes, the author of the memo to LBJ could not write...
A Plain Blog About Politics (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Ezra Klein takes to the filibuster wars again today. It's a good post; Ezra is an honest filibuster opponent (i.e. not a liberal apologist). He and Matt Yglesias have been carrying on this fight for a long time, and they make their case well. I have mixed feelings about the 60 vote Senate, but I have stronger feelings about majoritarian democracy. I'll just note for now that the...
ABC News (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
The WaPo's Ezra Klein predicts liberals will compromise on the public option. Ezra Klein - Washington Post - Health - Health Policy - Health care
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Ezra Klein , Village Blogger Extraordinaire, continues his disingenuous assault on the public option: Dylan Matthews beats me to the punch with some well-deserved shots at Howard Dean's contention that absent the public option, "this bill is worthless and should be defeated." No, it isn't, and it shouldn't. Ezra's willful misreading of Howard Dean is simply another example...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Ezra Klein , Village Blogger Extraordinaire, continues his disingenuous assault on the public option: Dylan Matthews beats me to the punch with some well-deserved shots at Howard Dean's contention that absent the public option, "this bill is worthless and should be defeated." No, it isn't, and it shouldn't. Ezra's willful misreading of Howard Dean is simply another example...
2parse/blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
A bit under the weather – but not with swine flu apparently. That accounts for the lack of Tuesday blogging. So, let me briefly blog about…..blogging. Ezra Klein chews on something I’ve been thinking about, as I set my opinions into the public domain day after day, with my name attached to it. As the Internet becomes [...]
Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog! Go! (Free subscription) | yesterday
Ezra Klein on the president's first ten months: Obama has...
The Political Carnival (Free subscription) | yesterday
By GottaLaff Dear Ezra Klein, thank you : Commentary on the Congressional Budget Office report showing that a given health-care insurance policy will become cheaper under reform has gotten a bit confused. Fox News, for instance, summarized the report as saying, ‘CBO: HC Overhaul Likely Won’t Bring Private Premiums Down .’ [...] First, the bottom line of the report is...
NYU Local (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
Ezra Klein at the Washington Post looks at the latest Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates for the Senate health care bill, finding good news for advocates of reform. Jon Gruber at MIT, who’s research Klein is relying on, found that when Massachusetts implemented reforms similar to those proposed in the Senate the cost of insurance [...]
A Plain Blog About Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday
As regular readers know, I'm a big fan of Ezra Klein (want to understand what's going on with health care right now? See what he says here and here ), and I'm certainly all for quoting Mann and Ornstein, but I don't think this post really gets things right. Ezra says: [I]t's worth reminding folks that the legislative branch is the first branch mentioned in the Constitution, and...
TalkLeft (Free subscription) | yesterday
... to that sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing. (Emphasis supplied.) Today, Ezra Klein celebrates President Obama's abandonment of transformationalism : The strength of Barack Obama's young presidency has been its depressing realism about the limits of legislative achievement in the age of the filibuster and unrelenting partisan polarization. While I disagree...
Right Klik (Free subscription) | 30/11/2009
... force healthy people into the market, and we'll do some Enron-style accounting tricks." Ezra Klein explains : First, the new rules governing the insurance market are expected to make the market more efficient, lowering prices by 7 to 10 percent. Government will make the insurance market more efficient? You're kidding, right? Even Obama knows that's a joke. More from Ezra:...
