Political Bloviation

Tim F. at Balloon Juice goes off on the significance of the Baghdad embassy debacle as reported in the Washington Post and general GOP mismanagement.
Balloon Juice
One would expect Republicans to take it worse than anybody that managers of the embassy project handed the project to a firm that never did embassy work before, mismanaged [...]

dnA riffs on Jonah Goldberg, but I find a more important point in the tail end of the commentary regarding the media’s lack of scrutiny of GOP candidate’s inexperience:
I Wonder Who Jonah Goldberg’s Favorite Candidate Is? - The Carpetbagger Report
I also feel obliged to note that while Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama [...]

GOP rivals back tax, spending cuts in SC - Yahoo! News
I don’t watch the debates, I don’t have a high enough threshold for nausea. Between the inane stupidity from the moderators and the genuinely stoopid answer, I just can’t take it. In the latest dolt-fest that passes for a GOP debate, all candidates [...]

It looks like Obama wins with 37% at the moment. Edwards and Hillary are in a dead heat for 2nd place with 30% each, despite Hillary out spending Edwards by more than two to one. The Huckster wins decisively with 34% on the GOP side frustrating Romney’s (25%) transparent attempt to buy the nomination [...]

Giuliani muses on vice president, cabinet - Boston.com
Later, Giuliani pivoted from a question about potential picks for secretary of state to this: “Let me answer with the question of what you would look for in a vice president first — again without any presumption that I’m going to be the nominee.”In an answer that mentioned [...]

EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect
A new report from the Campaign for America’s future tabulated the number of cloture votes — essentially, votes taken to break a filibuster — in recent Congresses. The results are startling. The Republicans have broken the record only halfway through the term. They are on track to not only [...]