Mickey screws up Big Time
Mickey Kaus says a man known to Dick Cheney as Big Time is a problem:
[A one-note blogging hack] once defended [New York Times reporter Adam] Nagourney by blaming the faults in his reporting on editor Howell Raines' meddling. Well, Raines is gone, and Nagourney is still spinning the Democrats' cocoon. He's become a national embarrassment.
But this isn't right. As far as the nation is concerned, Nagourney, like most of the political staff at the Times, is a hoot. He should be considered a national treasure, not a national embarassment.
Maybe the Times should be embarrassed, but obviously they're beyond embarrassment.
posted by ColumbusGuy @ 2:56 PM
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Yes or no to the following. The more yesses, the more you are a liberal.
Undo the bankruptcy bill enacted by this administration
Repeal the estate tax repeal
Increase the minimum wage and index it to the CPI
Universal health care (obviously the devil is in the details on this one)
Increase CAFE standards. Some other environment-related regulation
Pro-reproductive rights, getting rid of abstinence-only education, improving education about and access to contraception including the morning after pill, and supporting choice. On the last one there's probably some disagreement around the edges (parental notification, for example), but otherwise.
Simplify and increase the progressivity of the tax code
Kill faith-based funding.
Certainly kill federal funding of anything that engages in religious discrimination.
Reduce corporate giveaways
Have Medicare run the Medicare drug plan
Force companies to stop underfunding their pensions.
Change corporate bankruptcy law to put workers and retirees at the head of the line with respect to their pensions.
Leave the states alone on issues like medical marijuana. Generally move towards "more decriminalization" of drugs, though the details complicated there too.
Paper ballots
Improve access to daycare and other pro-family policies. Obiously details matter.
Raise the cap on wages covered by FICA taxes.
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