Who Would Even Want This Job?

Epic fail!  Nobody liked the current bailout anyway, so I’m not all that upset about it.  The political ramifications break Obama’s way because McCain looks like even more of an ass than he did last week.  The economic ramifications are… does anybody even know exactly?  I guess it depends on what passes in its place [...]

Stop Letting Idiots Run the World

 
“”All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits [...]

“And by ’save,’ I meant ‘ruin.’”

Important update to the debate shenanigans.  It seems McCain’s agenda in Washington wasn’t to make sure a deal passed so much as making sure no deal happens!  Yeah in the meeting this morning, McCain suddenly had all these new ideas about how saving the economy should go down, without specifics, but with interest from House [...]

Def Policy Jam

Upright citizen Karl Rove has an opinion column in the Wall Street Journal, and the title today is “The First Debate Could Be Decisive.”  It’s the rare case where the Elephant Man and I are in agreement, and I couldn’t be happier about it. Then again my candidate hasn’t spent the last two weeks making [...]

Vote Better: Knuckleball

Well kids and cadets, the wheels have come off the cart.  McCain suspends his campaign?!  Wants to postpone Friday’s debate?? And here I thought I was going to blog about foreign policy this week.  Maybe I’ll get to that closer to the election when al-Qaeda releases an audio tape endorsing Barack Obama to scare up [...]

Vote Better: Field Trip!

George Will is one of the nation’s greatest and well-respected conservatives, and I mean real down-to-earth, wise, you-could-learn-something-from-him conservative, not the corrupt lunatics who go around calling themselves conservatives kind of conservative.  George Will’s column last week made the argument that a good reason to vote McCain is to provide a check on the inevitably [...]

Vote Better: Live Long and Prosper?

Only have time for a quickie today (that’s what she said). Two items:
1) Matt Yglesias analyses a chart showing that among economists, Barack Obama has a 2-to-1 edge as the trusted candidate on foreign policy.  This is not true in public opinion polling, because too many people are ign’ant and don’t realize John McCain is [...]

Vote Better: Brass Tacks

Well in the wake of this week’s financial meltdown, we’re starting to hear projections about how this is going to affect the economy and the federal budget over the next couple of years.  The Atlantic’s Megan McArdle lays it out for us here.  The quick hit: Both Obama’s and McCain’s tax plans are pretty much [...]

Vote Better: Wool from Your Eyes

Yes, the swell in McCain support is already beginning to ebb as it becomes more and more obvious that Barack Obama is an insightful public servant for the 21st century and John McCain is a grumpy and increasingly confused relic of the 20th century. The Boy from Illinois is back up in the polling these [...]

Vote Better: On Paper

And by paper, I mean money.
For some weird reason the economy has leaped back to the top of everybody’s issues list this week, so today’s Vote Better is gonna be about the candidates’ economic policies, specifically their tax plans. This is a graph that started making the rounds of the blogosphere yesterday:
As you can see, [...]