“Worst. President. Ever.”

We know. But we are well past the time when this matters, and well into the time when the topic ought to be what can be done to fix a system that is so good at electing the so mediocre.


“As skewed as they are vapid”

Glenn Greenwald on the media’s determination to portray Democrats as elitist:
One other point to note about all of this is that these fixations are as skewed as they are vapid. Barack Obama is an exotic elitist freak because he went to Harvard Law School and made $1 million from his book. Hillary Clinton can’t possibly [...]


“He’s just killed the Republican brand”

It’s dumbfounding that Republicans are only now coming to understand what Shrub has done to their party. Consider it payback for the staggering negligence and self-indulgence that led them to support him in the first place.


Is the Spitzer Prosecution a Political Hit by the Bush Justice Dept?

Horton, Hamsher and Greenwald are now wondering. But as Greenwald notes, this question won’t get any attention until after the ’sphere has finished amusing itself with titillation details. And don’t expect the MSM to focus any time soon on a narrative that isn’t salacious and puerile.