Chait pastes Lamar Alexander: "It's as if you propose that, in order to get your family out of debt, your 23 year old son living at home gets a job, and the son replies that he likes the part of your idea where he gets paid, but let's leave out the part where he goes to work. This is basically Alexander's case. And he's one of the moderate Republicans! Most of them just deny the science of climate change altogether. The moderate position is that we can fix the problem via magic." Lamar And The Magic Climate Plan | The New Republic www.tnr.com
Kinsley pastes George Will: "It was not without a frisson of schadenfreude, or does one mean gemütlichkeit? or possibly weltschmerz? Yes, definitely weltshmerz–no, wait, make that schadenfreude after all–that one came to appreciate the wisdom beneath the surface wit of Mr. Will's classic description of politics as "the ineluctable in hot pursuit of the unelectable," which says it all, really, although not without a certain characteristically Jamesian ambiguity about what exactly the fuck he means." Nausea, Henry James, and Lord Byron | The Atlantic Wire www.theatlanticwire.com