Tag: Frank Rich

Frank Rich On Christine O’Donnell – “Useful Idiot”

Filed in Delaware, National by on October 4, 2010 9 Comments

Frank Rich has a smart column on Christine O’Donnell and her importance to the GOP.

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Don’t Get Mad, Mr. President. Get Even.

Filed in National by on June 7, 2010 9 Comments

This is the title of Frank Rich’s column from yesterday’s NYT, which, as always, is a Must Read. Like Rich, I find the emphasis on getting some anger from the President a lazy and childish response from the media. A media who perpetually is looking for the ratings-boosting human drama rather than trying to figure out how,exactly, something like this could possibly happen. So instead of trying to figure out how the legendarily dysfunctional Bush-era Minerals Management Service was still largely dysfunctional this far into the Obama Administration, we get plenty of ink on how “angry” the President is.

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Frank Rich On The Tea Party Movement

Filed in National by on February 28, 2010 6 Comments

New York Times op-ed writer Frank Rich takes a look at the Tea Party movement and the GOP embrace of it: No one knows what history will make of the present — least of all journalists, who can at best write history’s sloppy first draft. But if I were to place an incautious bet on […]

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The Dangers Of A Two Party System

Filed in National by on July 12, 2009 7 Comments

Several weeks ago I wrote a post pointing out how, through closed primaries, the 21%ers will control who’s at the top of the Republican ticket.  Frank Rich digs deeper, and, as bored as I am with Sarah Palin, Rich points out why we may be dealing with her in 2012.  (Read the whole article.) In […]

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