Thursday, January 22, 2009

Honeymoon? What honeymoon?

Shorter Joe Klein: Closing Guantanamo, curtailing the military commissions, rescinding Bush's war on four-legged creatures, toughest lobbying rules ever, ordering greater transparency in the Executive Branch -- where's the plan?

I know Obama has done much of this over the past few weeks, but he's President now and he needs to reaffirm his principles and tell the American people what is going to happen next. True, a lot of this is packaging. But it would help Gibbs' life and reputation immensely if the next time he appears before the press he could say, "Here is what we're doing..." rather than "We're studying that."


Less than 48 hours.

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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

"Too many Kagans"

Wow, Joe. Just wow.

7. On the day that John Yoo's remarkable torture memo is released, this foolishness is a reminder that none of these people--none of the vicious, mendacious, naive, simplistic, unapologetic, neo-colonialist ideologues who promulgated this disaster--should have even the vaguest claim on the time or tolerance of fair-minded people. Fred Kagan's certainty is an obscenity, his claim to expertise a farce.
And as Duncan notes approvingly, no gratuitous mention of the dirty fucking hippies.

UPDATE: Fixed link.

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