http://www.wikio.com/search=Jonathan Chait Wikio - Jonathan Chait http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=63121459 "In his time on the national stage, [Obama] has consistently put his party and his self-interest first. ... There has never been a time when Barack Obama has bucked the party line to lead on an issue of national importance.... Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:32:52 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=63121459 2008-07-05T15:32:52Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62896370 Conservative style patriotism, as put by Jonah Goldberg : it's a failure of patriotism if you didn't show respect to the American South in the 1920s. As Jonathan Chait remarks, if there was any time and place in America that deserved nothing but condecension and scorn, it was the quasi-oligarchical racist fiefdom that was the Jim Crow south. It's true, as Matt Yglesias points out , that much Northern scorn towards the South at this time was not matched by a similar commitment to combat epidemic racism in their own communities. But that objectively just serves to further undermine the notion that this is a failure of patriotism : if all of America was at fault, then all of America needed to have its ass kicked into gear. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:07:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62896370 2008-07-03T15:07:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62815393 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:37:41 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62815393 2008-07-03T00:37:41Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62792514 Well, even-the-liberal Jonathan "war is good for children and other living things" Chait called this one back in February Steve Schmidt Demotion Watch Begins... Now I really need to start blogging my predictions. I've been telling people for weeks that Rick Davis's firing [from the McCain campaign] was inevitable. Chris Orr and I were even planning to start an office betting pool on when he'd be gone. It happened even faster than I thought. Anway, let me now go on the record to say that another McCain staff shake-up is, if not inevitable, very likely. McCain's staff is just too factionalized to remain stable unless McCain is consistently winning. And Schmidt is a Bush 2004 veteran who lacks the deep emotional ties to the candiate that other McCainiacs have. I predict that at some point, probably just before or just after the convention, there will be a move to "Let McCain be McCain," and new boss Steve Schmidt will be replaced with either John Weaver or Mike Murphy, to try to recreate the magic of the 2000 campaign. and sure enough, today Campaign Manager Rick Davis said Tuesday morning that senior adviser Steve Schmidt would take over day-to-day operations of the campaign. The Bush campaign veteran will report to Davis, but the rest of the campaign will report to Schmidt, who will be in charge of everything from message and communications, to the political structure and organization to scheduling. Davis will shift into what is being described as a more “natural role” for him — the kind of duties he handled before last summer’s mass firings, working on the vice presidential search, and other long term planning including the Republican convention. Schmidt’s top priority, according to a senior aide, will be to stop “unforced errors in the campaign.” He is also expected to shore up what some believe is a misguided political operation put in place by Davis – a decentralized system of regional campaign managers who are not given clear instructions from the central campaign. After Davis announced Schmidt’s new role at the headquarters, they got on a call with the 11 regional directors to let them know they would be reporting to Schmidt. They did not discuss changes to that structure on the call, but CNN has been told it will almost certainly be altered. That's some righteous prognosticatin' there, Center Man. Mr. Schmidt will no doubt be key to McCain's much-discussed " respectful campaign " strategy Top aide Steve Schmidt calls the Democrat’s remarks about small-town Americans “condescending and elitist,” says the campaign will continue criticism “for the duration of Sen. Obama’s candidacy.” and he'll be invaluable in distancing McCain from the third Bush term thing Steve Schmidt is a veteran campaign strategist and public relations expert. In his career to date he has been: Chief strategist in charge of Supreme Court nominations of Samuel A. Alito. and Chief Justice John Roberts Counselor and spokesman for Vice President Dick Cheney. Member of the exclusive "breakfast club" led by top White House adviser Karl Rove that ran President Bush's re-election campaign. (2004) particularly with the media In the middle of the interview, [Mike] Allen [of the Politico] and Hewitt began discussing Bush/Cheney '04 media strategist Steve Schmidt, a former top aide to Dick Cheney for communications strategy (i.e., media management). Allen and Hewitt both heaped great praise on Schmidt as a brilliant media strategist, and Allen claimed that the current GOP campaign operatives "are schooled in the Bush-Cheney school . . . all of them learned under Schmidt's rules." Allen is very excited about the fact that a whole new generation of GOP media strategists are becoming so well-practiced in "the Bush-Cheney school" of media manipulation: "the great thing of it is he's populated his ideas into these young people who are out there today, Matt David [of the McCain campaign], Kevin Madden [communications Director for Mitt Romney and formerly for Tom DeLay], all these young people are out there. They sort of have the Schmidt credo." who know what a fresh breeze through the smoke-filled rooms he is At the NRA convention in Kentucky this afternoon, Karl Rove portrayed Barack Obama as an effete, South Side liberal who claims he's immune to criticism and and who would confiscate guns by the barrel. The gun stuff is much less important than Rove's general line of argument; Rove has a direct line to McCain advisers Steve Schmidt and Charlie Black and has been pushing the campaign to make these sorts of contrasts. Luckily for him, Schmidt won't have to carry the load alone while he's learning on the job. They're bringing another fresh face in to help him Former Giuliani campaign manager Mike DuHaime, another longtime associate of Schmidt’s who has been working for both the McCain team and the RNC, will also be taking on more responsibility. DuHaime's got a Chait-level political prognostication record of his own KWN: Some critics in the MSM and the Blogosphere are skeptical that Mayor Giuliani will be able to win Florida if he does not win a primary or caucus up until that point. How confident are you that he will win Florida? Michael DuHaime: We have taken a lot of criticism for having a bit of an unconventional approach. But The Mayor has never listened to conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom a year ago said that he would not even be a serious candidate past the spring or summer. They said that he would never be able to last in the race. Not only did he last but he lead in the race and is certainly one of the top-tier candidates here as we go forward. If he had listened to conventional wisdom, he probably wouldn’t have ran for Mayor of New York, right? Five-to-one Democrat, how could a Republican win? He probably would have never said, I can cut crime in New York. He would never had been able to reduce the welfare rolls as he did because the conventional wisdom and the pundits said he couldn’t do it. But he has never listened to that. He has always said that we have to do what we believe is right, and we are going to stick to that. ... So we are comfortable with our strategy. We think its very good. I am very confident about Florida. First, Rudy has a base in Florida that is better than anyone else’s. He is very familiar with Florida going all the way back to his days in the Reagan Justice Department. We have a great operation down there. Great endorsements and a great field team. Great grassroots volunteers. We have a base of support that is very familiar with The Mayor from folks that have moved down to Florida in recent years that are familiar with The Mayor’s record. That doesn’t mean it won’t be a very tight and close race throughout-that is understood. and he was right, if by tight and close you mean that a distant third has the same number of digits as first (below: Mr. Duhaime talks about the groundswell of support for Giuliani in Florida, which is, apparently, "Rudy Country") In fairness, the Giuliani campaign wasn't DuHaime's first time at the roundabout. He came to that campaign as "someone with such expertise in national politics, who has served in such a key role for the national Republican party during some of its strongest years " That would be this role GOP consultant Terry Nelson, who put DuHaime in charge of President Bush's 2004 reelection effort in the Northeast, notes that DuHaime lost all 11 states he oversaw but still impressed everyone with his targeted get-out-the-vote operation. "I think it says a lot that here's a guy who didn't win the most electoral votes, but who everyone thinks still did a great job," said Nelson, until recently the campaign manager for GOP rival John McCain. DuHaime's 2004 performance earned him another killer job - political director of the Republican National Committee, which put him in touch with Karl Rove and some of the savviest GOP operatives. Many are now on Giuliani's payroll, thanks to DuHaime. At first, however - back in 2006 when Giuliani had yet to announce his intentions - DuHaime played hard to get. "He kept saying, 'Well, people are telling me that you're not really running,'" recalled Carbonetti. But DuHaime says now that he could tell Giuliani had made up his mind. And based on the crowds he kept seeing Giuliani draw as he campaigned for others during midterm congressional elections, he sensed that Giuliani would do far better than pundits predicted. and this one DuHaime served as Political Director of the Republican National Committee from January 2005 to December 2006, where he become known for his ability to effectively organize on the grassroots level. Ayup. This is the prodigy who directed the Republican electoral triumph in '06. Mssrs. Schmidt and DuHaime are expected to concentrate on keeping McCain, who is running as a symbol of change and definitely not for a third Bush term, on message. That Jon Chait. He's uncanny. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:40:58 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62792514 2008-07-02T19:40:58Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62790249 Just what I've always wanted: a debate with presidential candiates, albeit through intermediaries : Fortune: Jonathan Chait has written in The New Republic that if John McCain circa 2007 were running against John McCain circa 2000, he would call John McCain 2000 a Communist. McCain: My principles and my practice and my voting record is very clear. Not only from 2000, but 1996 and 1992 and 1988 and 1986. And, you know, it's kind of a favorite tactical ploy now that opponents use, of saying the person has changed. Look, none of my principles or values have changed. Have I changed position on some specific issues because of changed circumstances? I would hope so! I would hope so! When I came back from the 2000 campaign that Mr. Chait refers to, I didn't know anything about climate change. But I'd been informed by the voters of New Hampshire that came to the town hall meetings. So I held hearings on climate change, and so I became dedicated to the proposition that we must reduce greenhouse gas emissions; otherwise we're gonna hand the next generation of Americans a more-damaged planet. Now if Mr. Chait wants to say that I've changed on climate change, fine, I'm proud of it. (The column cited by Fortune is here .) McCain here is citing one example of an issue where he moved left since 2000. The point of the column he was asked about is that there are many more issues where he moved right since then, coinciding with his effort to secure the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. Meanwhile, McCain is going around saying things like, "I take stands on principle, and I don't switch positions depending on what audience or what time it is in the electoral calendar." Apparently we're supposed to swallow the notion that Barack Obama's (short) list of policy reversals is entirely motivated by political calculation, while the extremely long list of issues where McCain has moved right since 2004 is a response to "changed circumstances." --Jonathan Chait Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:04:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62790249 2008-07-02T19:04:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62774667 There has been a lot of self-congratulatory commentary by the left-wing blog on a draft paper purporting to analyze blog reading behaviors by political affiliation. Jonathan Chait of the New Republic leaps to a conclusion . I'm going to go ahead and interpet it: Liberals are more interested in listening to opposing points of view than are conservatives. Now, most people in general do not like listening to opposing views, but those who do are overwhelmingly on the left . I'm going to wallow in smug self-satisfaction for a few minutes, then go over to the Corner to see if anybody has a rebuttal . A completely ironic response. I'll explain why in a moment. Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:48:46 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62774667 2008-07-02T15:48:46Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62750705 Self-confessed hater, Jonathan Chait says below that they are. I add some comments below that — JR In a paper they wrote about the ideological leanings of blog readers and news-watchers, Henry Farrell, Eric Lawrence and John Sides find that conservatives tend to read only conservative blogs, while most liberals read only left-leaning blogs. [...] Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:38:38 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62750705 2008-07-02T13:38:38Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62747325 Self-confessed hater , Jonathan Chait says below that they are. I add some comments below that -- JR In a paper they wrote about the ideological leanings of blog readers and news-watchers, Henry Farrell, Eric Lawrence and John Sides find that conservatives tend to read only conservative blogs, while most liberals read only left-leaning blogs. That's not a huge surprise. They also find this: Those few people who read both left wing and right wing blogs are considerably more likely to be left wing themselves; interpret this as you like. I'm going to go ahead and interpet it: Liberals are more interested in listening to opposing points of view than are conservatives. Now, most people in general do not like listening to opposing views, but those who do are overwhelmingly on the left. I'm going to wallow in smug self-satisfaction for a few minutes, then go over to the Corner to see if anybody has a rebuttal. Source Chait is quoting some research about blog readers that appeared on the Leftist "Crooked Timber" website. Even if the findings concerned are sound, therefore, they tell us nothing about the population at large. From blog readership alone, for instance, we can tell that blog readers are far from typical. Leftist blogs in general have far higher readership than conservative blogs. Kos readership completely dwarfs Instapundit readership, for instance. Most blog readers are Leftist but that is not true of the population at large. So what IS true of the population at large? Are people in general more open-minded if they are Leftist? That is a very old question among political psychologists -- going back to the book The open and closed mind by Milton Rokeach, published in 1960. Rokeach constructed a questionnaire (the D or "Dogmatism" scale) to measure open mindedness. He allowed for it being equally prevalent on both sides of politics but found some tendency for Leftists to be more open-minded. As it happens, by far the most prolific author of the many subsequent papers in the academic journals on the subject was myself. You can access all my papers on the subject here . What I found at the end of many years of research was that the "D" scale really measured nothing at all. Since the topic was a very popular one within political psychology, it seems reasonable to say that the best brains on the subject have so far been unable to produce a definitive conclusion. In the circumstances, I think we have to treat Mr Chait's assertions as mere unsubstantiated opinion. (For more postings from me, see TONGUE-TIED , DISSECTING LEFTISM , GREENIE WATCH , OBAMA WATCH , POLITICAL CORRECTNESS WATCH , GUN WATCH , EDUCATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL , IMMIGRATION WATCH INTERNATIONAL , FOOD & HEALTH SKEPTIC , SOCIALIZED MEDICINE , AUSTRALIAN POLITICS and EYE ON BRITAIN . My Home Pages are here or here or here . Email me (John Ray) here .) Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:27:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62747325 2008-07-02T13:27:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62743567 Self-confessed hater , Jonathan Chait says below that they are. I add some comments below that -- JR In a paper they wrote about the ideological leanings of blog readers and news-watchers, Henry Farrell, Eric Lawrence and John Sides find that conservatives tend to read only conservative blogs, while most liberals read only left-leaning blogs. That's not a huge surprise. They also find this: Those few people who read both left wing and right wing blogs are considerably more likely to be left wing themselves; interpret this as you like. I'm going to go ahead and interpet it: Liberals are more interested in listening to opposing points of view than are conservatives. Now, most people in general do not like listening to opposing views, but those who do are overwhelmingly on the left. I'm going to wallow in smug self-satisfaction for a few minutes, then go over to the Corner to see if anybody has a rebuttal. Source Chait is quoting some research about blog readers that appeared on the Leftist "Crooked Timber" website. Even if the findings concerned are sound, therefore, they tell us nothing about the population at large. From blog readership alone, for instance, we can tell that blog readers are far from typical. Leftist blogs in general have far higher readership than conservative blogs. Kos readership completely dwarfs Instapundit readership, for instance. Most blog readers are Leftist but that is not true of the population at large. So what IS true of the population at large? Are people in general more open-minded if they are Leftist? That is a very old question among political psychologists -- going back to the book The open and closed mind by Milton Rokeach, published in 1960. Rokeach constructed a questionnaire (the D or "Dogmatism" scale) to measure open mindedness. He allowed for it being equally prevalent on both sides of politics but found some tendency for Leftists to be more open-minded. As it happens, by far the most prolific author of the many subsequent papers in the academic journals on the subject was myself. You can access all my papers on the subject here . What I found at the end of many years of research was that the "D" scale really measured nothing at all. Since the topic was a very popular one within political psychology, it seems reasonable to say that the best brains on the subject have so far been unable to produce a definitive conclusion. In the circumstances, I think we have to treat Mr Chait's assertions as mere unsubstantiated opinion. Posted by John Ray . For a daily critique of Leftist activities, see DISSECTING LEFTISM . For a daily survey of Australian politics, see AUSTRALIAN POLITICS Also, don't forget your roundup of Obama news and commentary at OBAMA WATCH Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:21:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62743567 2008-07-02T13:21:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62662720 Says Jonathan Chait , interpreting this study and appropriately and humorously checking himself: "I'm going to wallow in smug self-satisfaction for a few minutes, then go over to the Corner to see if anybody has a rebuttal." blog advertising blog advertising Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:10:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62662720 noreply@blogger.com (Ann Althouse) 2008-07-01T21:10:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62216229 Campaign Scorecard (Mark Halperin, 6/27/08, TIME: The Page) McCain's Good Week (Jonathan Chait, 6/23/08, TNR: The Plank) [M]cCain did a spectacular job of stopping Obama this last week. Obama was trying to focus on the economy, and he got virtually no traction because McCain has been driving the debate by attacking him on debates, public financing, and terrorism. The first two, especially, seemed to take a toll. Political reporters are interested in politics, not policy, and a process fight will always eclipse a debate over economic plans. And it's pretty clear that Obama's image has been tainted by the process fights. ...that the quality of the campaigns matters, when really the race is just a function of political dynamics. Everything that helped Senator Obama defeat Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination is a liability for him in the general, while nought that aided John McCain is. Now, Senator Obama has to jettison all his baggage -- his identity politics, his voting record, his affiliations, etc. -- and can't help but seem two-faced as he does so. Worse, since no one really knows who he is their first impression of him is that he's so changeable as to be hollow. Republican attacks on his original politics and his shucking them for political purposes simply reinforce this image. Maverick isn't winning so much as Senator Obama can't win. Posted by Orrin Judd (June 27, 2008 11:55 AM) Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:55:53 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=62216229 2008-06-27T16:55:53Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=61705929 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:54:29 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=61705929 2008-06-24T02:54:29Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=61656262 Below, my colleague Jonathan Chait makes the case that John McCain just had a pretty good week. I agree--and would expand on one point in particular. Last week, when Barack Obama announced he was opting out of the public financing system for campaigns, a lot of pundits predicted it wouldn't have much resonance. After all, when was the last time voters thought about campaign finance reform when they were in the voting booth? But the significance of the decision was in what it said about Obama's character--or, at least, what people think it says about Obama's character. The more voters think of Obama as an ordinary politician, making decisions based primarily on what's most likely to get him elected, the harder it will be for Obama to present himself as an outsider trying to change Washington. And while it's true most Americans simply don't pay that much attention to these sorts of details, reporters certainly do. They have more than a little something to do with Obama's public image. None of which is to say Obama made the wrong decision, strategically, when he opted out of public financing. Like President Bush, Obama seems to grasp the importance of enduring short-term political turmoil for long-term political gain. And even if Obama does start to lose some of his luster as a reformer of politics, that may, perversely, work to his advantage--because it will force him to focus even more on his policy ideas. Obama's advantage over McCain on policy strikes me as no weaker, and perhaps even stronger, than his advantage on character. (Remember, McCain has at least a little credibility as a reformer, thanks to his work on campaign finance.) But I believe that a campaign based heavily on policy ideas would, if successful, put Obama in a stronger position to actually enact those policies once elected. Yes, I know political scientists are skeptical that elecitons produce mandates. I disagree. But that's a topic for another day. -- Jonathan Cohn Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:33:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=61656262 2008-06-23T16:33:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=61140966 Bilmes & Stiglitz's book The Three Trillion Dollar War explains in depth how aggressively the Administration has denied benefits to many returning veterans. It's a natural consequence of going to war while cutting taxes--and given Jonathan Chait's work, I'm not... Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:18:56 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=61140966 2008-06-19T00:18:56Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=61102862 Counterterrorism and energy remain the two big topics in the political blogosphere today. After John McCain's advisers accused Barack Obama of possessing a "September 10th mindset," liberal bloggers pushed back strongly, accusing the McCain aides of willfully distorting Obama's views.... Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:46:31 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=61102862 2008-06-18T17:46:31Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=61007743 Jonathan Chait, at The New Republic writes about how the "new new new" John McCain is stuck running against the "new new" McCain: First he moved far to the left and nearly deserted the GOP (that was the new McCain). Then he had to move back to the right and win the Republican nomination (the New New McCain)-- and he succeeded, though it required a lot of luck. Now he has to move back to the center again (The New New New McCain), but do so without compromising his most precious attribute of straight-talkiness. Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:13:56 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=61007743 2008-06-18T03:13:56Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=60948650 side note: It is quite amazing how different I look at Lieberman today then I did when he was part of the Gore/Lieberman ticket in 2000. His foreign policy rhetoric sounds more like he’s a part of the Israeli Parliament rather then the US Congress. Jonathan Chait The New Republic The Zell Millerization of Joe Lieberman. Watching [...] Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:19:05 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=60948650 2008-06-17T16:19:05Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=60348913 I'm going to borrow from Jonathan Chait who is dead-on and succinct in explaining why first John McCain's 100 years in Iraq and now his "not too important" how long we are there comments shows that he just doesn't get it: 1. McCain's goal of turning Iraq into a place where American soldiers can stay peacefully, like West Germany or South Korea, is wildly unrealistic. I won't say it's impossible, because anything is possible. But the history of the Middle East suggests that Iraqis are never going to accept a long-term American military presence. Indeed, even if you thought Iraqis would welcome American troops as liberators, which was optimistic but not totally crazy, it would take a whole different level of delusional optimism to think that they'd also welcome scores of permanent U.S. bases in the country. So these comments are a window into McCain's rosy scenario that ought to be challenged. 2. McCain will never say how long he's willing to fight on in order to get to this casualty-free scenario he envisions. Yes, he wants the Iraq occupation to become like the West German occupation, but right now it's not, and McCain won't concede there's any limit to how long the status quo is acceptable to him. He repeatedly turns questions about how long the current war can go on into postulates about a hypothetical future peaceful occupation. It's not the same thing as saying he's willing to keep taking casualties for 100 years, but it is the answer he gives to that question, and as such it's highly suggestive. I'd love to see Obama really take it to him on this issue-- the fact that it seems to display a fundamental understanding of the Middle East-- rather than the more simplistic idea of a too-long military engagement. Smart as Obama is, I think he will. Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:25:58 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=60348913 2008-06-12T13:25:58Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=60249737 I have a new Bloggingheads dialogue with Heather Hurlburt of Democracy Arsenal and the National Security Network. It's under half an hour -- a personal first for me. -- Jonathan Chait Wed, 11 Jun 2008 19:14:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=60249737 2008-06-11T19:14:00Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=60015243 This is a look in the rear view mirror. Regarding the post previous, I tripped across a good editorial from 2006 by Jay Ambrose, which notes the lack of curiosity among those who tell us these interesting stories about President Bush’s…drum roll, please…lack of curiosity. I’ve lost track of the linky navigation but it’s probably something [...] Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:01:09 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Jonathan+Chait?rinfoid=60015243 2008-06-10T06:01:09Z