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There's really not much I can say that isn't said here.
I'll add that I always found Obama and Bush's comparable lack of experience, especially in the realm of, say, foreign affairs, disturbing. Obama's White House also still contains the Office of Political Affairs, once overseen/headed up by Karl Rove (for what it's worth, John McCain had committed to abolishing it).
There's a lot of continuity between the old regime and the new... and not a lot of change,...

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OK, so David Brooks has been writing stuff about how President Obama is moving the country to the left, drawing as a case in point the budget, which today he calls "a liberal, big government document that should make moderates nervous."
As someone who is occasionally described as a moderate (and who certainly is more a moderate than a conservative), and doesn't totally disclaim the label (though I'm more a libertarian, really), I have to agree with this.
But it appears Greg Sargent...

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Looks like the paper I used to write for back in Seattle, the P-I, might stay alive... just in an online-only version.
If you're not clear on the background here, read this from Real Clear Politics from about 2 months ago.
Personally, I hope the P-I can survive in some form. It has been a great source of local news. Yes, it's more liberal than the Times. But it's a paper whose staff have done some really solid reporting of late (note the number of people from the paper who won...

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As was reported earlier by the Washington Post's Jose Antonio Vargas (and announced by the man himself in a post over at the e-Voter Institute), today was my former boss, Cy Krohn's last day as the RNC's eCampaign Director.
Here's what the Post wrote about Cy:
A veteran of Microsoft and Yahoo, Krohn joined the RNC in July 2007 and started to reboot the party's online infrastructure. Immediately, he launched new sites within GOP.com (such as GOPPlatform2008.com, which allowed...

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John McCain isn't the only one who's pissed off that Obama is, apparently supporting it.
As I tweeted earlier, so is moderate Dem Sen. Evan Bayh, who writes this today in the WSJ:
This week, the United States Senate will vote on a spending package to fund the federal government for the remainder of this fiscal year. The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 is a sprawling, $410 billion compilation of nine spending measures that lacks the slightest hint of austerity from the federal...

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For much of last year, I spent almost all day, every day, working to elect John McCain, and I was proud and happy to do so. McCain is one a of a handful of people in political life who I have consistently, proudly admired and frankly, the time he always made and interest he showed in bloggers (and people, generally) made my job a lot easier and frankly fun than it could have been.
One of the things I've always liked about McCain is his willingness to create a fuss in the name of...

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Glenn Greenwald notices it.   There's more "change" that I detailed in my post here.

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For months now, we've been feeling the effects of a meltdown in our financial markets, considered by most reasonable people to be the root cause of our current economic woes, both nationally, and globally. Our financial markets remain in pretty bad shape, with little (it seems) being done to improve the situation other than throw money at financial institutions (much of it with zero oversight or accountability). Lots of money is being thrown into the economy, generally, via the stimulus...

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You'd have had to be hiding under a rock over the past few months to have missed the on-running drama surrounding President Obama's old Senate seat, beginning with revelations that my personal pick for America's Dodgiest Politician, ex-Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, (allegedly) wanted to sell the thing, and culminating recently in speculation that its current occupant, US Sen. Roland Burris (who Blago appointed), was involved in illegal and/or unethical shenangigans aimed at securing it for...

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I missed the Ireland v England rugby match in the Six Nations this weekend because I was at CPAC. But it appears that Ireland beat England by one point: 14-13.
This is not, obviously, quite as good as Scotland beating England (maybe we'll pull that off later this month). However, in many Scots' (and Scottish-descended folks') book, no matter who it is beating the English, so long as the English do in fact lose, it's a net win for us (this is where I mentally recall Scots samba'ing in...

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