Liberal Talk Radio

Old people shoot Crown Royal. Young people shoot three-pointers. Myself, I enjoy a mean game of catch and a microbrew; maybe I’m becoming a “moderate.”

Would Barney Frank ever have been able to talk about regulating the banking sector had it not been for Bush’s Bear Stearns bailout? That’s why Bush may be the most progressive-liberal president since, uh, Jimmy Carter. (Sorry, Bill!)
Unconvinced? What about John McCain running around Europe pandering about Kyoto and torture and “reestablishing diplomacy”?
Karl Rove is [...]

As recently as this fall, Rudy Giuliani ranked highly in both nationwide and state polls. Now, it’s gotten so bad that even people in the tri-state area are wondering about his chances:
For months, the Republican establishment in New York and New Jersey marched nearly in lock step behind Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former hometown mayor [...]

I’m going to come out and say it — America is starting to remind me of Britain in the ’70s (or, what I’ve read of it, anyway). Your country and mine currently features:
* A dysfunctional economy, characterized by almost schizophrenic swings in the stock market (stock market down 300 pts so [...]

Good op-ed in the Times this weekend on reforming the farm bill. The farm bill is one of those famous pieces of pork(!) that no one likes except big agriculture. It’s a travesty, but — and this is the ultra-cynic in me coming out — it will never get any attention so long [...]

Nicholas Kristof argues against Hillary Clinton based on an aversion to “political dynasties”:
If Mrs. Clinton were elected and served two terms, then for seven consecutive presidential terms the White House would have been in the hands of just two families. That’s just not the kind of equal-opportunity democracy we aspire to. Maybe we can’t make [...]

If you’re a conservative, I guess nothing gets you as riled up as the prospect of a woman and a black man running the country (and, presumably, sleeping together at the same time — those damn liberals and their non-traditional values!).
The Bug Meister himself, Mr. Tom “Would You Like Some Dioxin and Scandal with Your [...]

Mikhail Gorbachev — aka “the Birthmark that Lost the Cold War” — makes a point I’ve been shouting about for years: namely, that the US squandered its post-Cold War opportunity.
[Gorbachev] said the United States and other Western countries had missed an opportunity to make the world a better place after the fall of [...]

So the Wall Street Journal editorial board is pretty much getting at same thing here:
“Some of those liberals now shouting the loudest for Mr. Hastert’s head are the same voices who tell us that the larger society must be tolerant of private lifestyle choices, and certainly must never leap to conclusions about gay men and [...]

Although I think it’s interesting and important to have a public conversation about the best way to deal with the terrorist threat, I wonder if we would be as vocal about rights, wiretapping, extraordinary rendition and everything else if Bush wasn’t in power.
The issue seems to be boiled down to this:
How the measure will look [...]