As a West Wing junkie (at least for the first three or four seasons, via DVD!) I’m really tickled by the fiction-meets-reality of the current kerfuffle about whether McLame voted for Bush in 2000, as reported by the NYT. Arianna made the charge on Monday:
On her Huffington Post Web site on Monday, Ms. Huffington, the [...]
Archive for May, 2008
McCain’s voting record
Posted in McLame, Uncategorized on May 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Depart, I say!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You have sat here too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!
—MP Leo Amery, using the works of Oliver Cromwell to berate Neville Chamberlain, 9 May 1940
No one can accuse Hillary Clinton of sitting around, but large numbers [...]
Out with the “new”
Posted in Uncategorized on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
An interesting synchronicity is presenting itself on either side of the anglophone Atlantic—New is looking pretty Old. In the UK, Gordon Brown’s New Labour (well, Blair’s New Labour and Gordon’s inheritance) has taken a blasting in local council elections. The highlight of this disaster has been the replacement of Red Ken as London’s mayor by [...]
