Fareed Zakaria: … if you control just one of those three branches of government, you can’t hijack the entire system and say I’m going to blow the country up unless you listen to me. [The Tea Party has] only won one election to one house once. … I think they don’t understand the workings of [...]
source: The Telegraph
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Yeah, I watched that Jon Stewart/Chris Wallace interview, just like you did. Yes, it was extremely satisfying to watch Chris Wallace claim that there was no Fox bias and yet is a counter-balance to the liberal bias of the mainstream media. (Aside: how is the number 1 cable news [...]
I do not think the shooting in Tucson is Palin’s fault … anymore than I think John Lennon’s death is J.D. Salinger’s fault (and there is certainly more of a direct connection to the assailant in that case). Although the fact that Palin’s site and Twitter have been scrubbed demonstrates that people in her camp at least sense a connection. [...]
a) The factually unsupported narrative that government spending is out of control (made even more irresponsible when it’s coupled with blaming the current administration for not creating more jobs). b) The fact that the underlying argument of the Right has a modicum of merit … that it appears that even a supposedly game-changing movement like [...]