check the whole video out- it's good.

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Krugman unleashes a must read:

Where did this hostility to government come from? In 1981 Lee Atwater, the famed Republican political consultant, explained the evolution of the G.O.P.’s “Southern strategy,” which originally focused on opposition to the Voting Rights Act but eventually took a more coded form: “You’re getting so abstract now you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is blacks get hurt worse than whites.” In other words, government is the problem because it takes your money and gives it to Those People. 

It seems a million years ago, but when I was struggling to decide who I was going to vote for in the primaries between Clinton and Obama, one of the biggest factors in my mind was that Obama's election would shatter (or simply mark the demise of) the southern strategy and thereby shatter the Republican party. This is a party that measures success only in winning elections- not in governance, and they have no way to win national elections...until, of course, the next civil war.

Onward 2009!

fun to see Scarborough's reaction to being told he's a fool.

Daniel De Groot at openleft does a quick breakdown of this Vanity Fair piece
from April 08. It's the eternal question as to whether the Bush
Administration was just stupid or insane- I'd guess a bit of both.

It's clear that Olmert and Barak think that they can decapitate
Hamas- my guess is to set the table for a Fatah resurgence and a new
"peace" initiative guided by the new American Administration. I also
think, as I said on the show yesterday- Ehud Barak thinks a "victory"
in Gaza will help his Kadimah party in the upcoming election. The
latter might work but read the Vanity Fair piece - if history is any
measure, even if Hamas is "destroyed" the chances of a more extreme
militant and hostile group emerging from the ashes seems to be around
100%.

UPDATE: J-Street, the pro-Israel, pro-peace pac has a petition sign here.

UPDATE 2: Herzog in the comments at mvslive corrects me- Barack is labor, not kadima- what I meant to say was Barack is hoping to help the kadima led coalition govt- which in cludes labor, fight of the likud. 

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