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The Dismal Séance
An actual sentence that an actual person actually wrote:
What would Lincoln do about the fiscal
cliff?
That’s Joe Klein striving
mightily to claim the award for ;Worst Essay Ever Inspired
By A Steven Spielberg Movie, a title held til now by an elaborate
Thomas Friedman metaphor involving Palestinians, iPads, and a
“bigger boat.” (*)
Klein’s next sentence, incidentally, is “The answer seems
obvious,” and the rest of the paragraph includes such gems as “On
the spending side, he would probably have to look at health care in
a new way.” I’ll spare you the details, but apparently if Lincoln
were alive today he would be a politically canny sockpuppet for Joe
Klein.
The actual point of Klein’s ;column is that “if we’re going
to resume dealmaking in Washington, my colleagues in the media are
going to have to get off the high horses we mounted when, in the
wake of Watergate, exposing ‘corruption’ became the surest path to
journalistic gold and glory.” You’ll have to judge for yourself
what’s most risible about that sentence: the idea that D.C. has
deserted dealmaking, ;the idea that the press is too much of a
watchdog, or the fact that Klein’s description of those watchdogs
includes the word “we.”
(* Note: Thomas Friedman did not actually write such a
metaphor. Or at least I don’t think he did. I black out a lot when
I read his columns.)
Only path to Palestinian state is direct talks: Clinton
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Wednesday that the only path towards a Palestinian state was through direct negotiations, on the eve of a contentious United Nations vote. “I have said many times that the path to a two-state solution that fulfills the aspirations of the Palestinian…
A.M. Links: NYC Wants a Post-Sandy Bailout, Morsi Has Obama Quite Annoyed, Gun Sales Rise as Crime Plummets
Having already taken in $9.2
billion from private insurerers and FEMA to pay for Sandy damage,
New York City wants the feds
to cough up another $9.8 billion. Because taxpayers in Iowa and
Arizona should definitely pick up the tab for the city’s mess.
Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi’s seizure of vast power in
his country apparently
has the Obama administration concerned. Watch your step, Morsi,
or drones will take out wedding receptions and picnics all over the
place.
The online prediction market Intrade is
pulling out of the U.S. because regulators have left it no path
for functioning legally.
The
first two prison sentences have been handed down in the Fast
and Furious gun-running debacle — and no, they weren’t given to
Justice Department officials or BATF agents,
Bradley Manning, the source of a treasure trove of American
documents published by WikiLeaks, will
speak publicly in court for the first time since his
arrest.
As
gun ownership has risen in Virginia, the crime rate has
dropped. One wonders if there is a connection.
California SEIU member Mariam Noujaim
spent $18K of her own money to finally gain access to her union’s
books. She’s due to get a peek today.
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