Your Abbreviated Pundit Round-up
by DemFromCT
Wed Jan 07, 2009 at 01:45:29 AM PDT
Wednesday, and the weather sucks in the northeast. Here's a winter mix of the pundits.
And believe me, she talks a whole lot better than the former junior senator from New York, Al D’Amato, who once wailed that he was "up to my earballs" in some mess, and another time complained to me that those "little Jappies" bring over boats full of cars and then take the boats back empty.
Ich bin ein, you know, New Yorker.
That is, Gaza is a mini-version of three great struggles that have been playing out since 1948: 1) Who is going to be the regional superpower — Egypt? Saudi Arabia? Iran? 2) Should there be a Jewish state in the Middle East and, if so, on what Palestinian terms? And 3) Who is going to dominate Arab society — Islamists who are intolerant of other faiths and want to choke off modernity or modernists who want to embrace the future, with an Arab-Muslim face? Let’s look at each.
Walter Dellinger: On seating Burris.
A similar situation arose in 1967, when the House of Representatives refused to seat Adam Clayton Powell Jr., the outspoken congressman from Harlem accused of personal misconduct involving public funds. I was clerking for Justice Hugo Black two years later when he joined in the Supreme Court decision that the House lacked the power to deal with Powell’s conduct by refusing to seat him.
WaPo: A smorgasbord of Minnesota and Franken v Coleman (now with lutefisk.)
David Ignatius: Leon Panetta? Hey, Langley, the joke's on you. And this Villager approves.
During the campaign, I sometimes criticized Obama for lacking specificity and ambition. But as the specifics emerge, the ambitions of his campaign pledges are ever more clear.
I've been wrong about a tremendous number of things, come to think of it. Luckily, I'm a pundit now, so no one keeps track. Anyway, if Obama pulls this stuff off, Republicans are screwed.
Today's essay is the first in a series analyzing the results of the 2008 presidential election. Our goal here is not to describe every minute detail, but rather to highlight significant trends that emerged on Election Day.
One significant trend is that the President doesn't have a South Central accent.
Ever wonder about the definition of "region" in the polls?
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