The Correspondence of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 18th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
The Correspondence of Daniel Patrick Moynihan
David Brooks, NY Times
Sometime in the late 1980s, I had lunch with Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. The drug war was a hot topic of conversation, and at the start of the lunch I asked him how he thought it was going. To answer the question fully, he said, would require a little historical background. President-elect Richard Nixon with Daniel Patrick Moynihan in 1968. DANIEL PATRICK MOYNIHANA Portrait in Letters of an American VisionaryEdited by Steven R. WeismanIllustrated. 705 pp. PublicAffairs. $35He proceeded to launch off on a fascinating survey of government efforts to…
If Sarah Palin Falls in a Forest?
Joan Walsh, Salon
It's strange to be aware that Sarah Palin is in California and no one I know seems to care much about it. Sure, my crowd is mostly Democrats, but I'm also thinking about GOP senate candidate Carly Fiorina and our would-be governor Meg Whitman. Both said they had other engagements this weekend — they're washing their hair? — and that's particularly hurtful coming from Fiorina. Palin's May endorsement helped shore up the former HP CEO's standing with party right-wingers, since Fiorina was a McCain surrogate in the state, and a real Tea Party candidate, Chuck…
Massachusetts: A Little Less Blue?
Michal Warren, Weekly Standard
Last January, the voters of Massachusetts chose Republican Scott Brown to serve in the Senate, no small feat in that famously Democratic state. Can Massachusetts Republicans build on their rare victory this fall?First things first: Republicans in Massachusetts are still fighting behind enemy lines. The state’s governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of the commonwealth, attorney general, and state auditor are all Democrats. Democrats have 35 seats in the state senate to the Republicans’ 5 and 144 seats in the state house to the Republicans’ 16.
