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Daily Archives: March 31st, 2008

Counting Delegates

Monday, March 31, 2008

Via Talking Points, here’s a fun site at Slate, where you can tinker with the delegate math and play out different scenarios depending on how things go in the upcoming primaries. The conclusion is inescapable: Hillary can win only if she steals it, or a miracle happens. I assumed, for example, that she gets 65% […]

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Good regulations can’t trump bad regulators

Monday, March 31, 2008

Paul Krugman makes the valid point today that Treasury Secretary Paulson’s proposed “reforms” amount to little more than rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic: Anyone who has worked in a large organization — or, for that matter, reads the comic strip “Dilbert” — is familiar with the “org chart” strategy. To hide their lack […]

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Last Democrat Standing

Monday, March 31, 2008

Poor Joe Lieberman. According to him, he didn’t leave the Democratic Party, every other Democrat in the country did: “It’s not the Bill Clinton-Al Gore party, which was strong internationalists, strong on defense, pro-trade, pro-reform in our domestic government,” he said. “It’s been effectively taken over by a small group on the left of the […]

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