Matt Yglesias

23 Responses to “Norquist: No Mayor of Baghdad”

1. kid bitzer Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 11:09 am

   “I’d forgotten how purely cynical he is about these issues.”

   as opposed to his views on, say, the domestic safety-net, where he’s just a big-hearted care bear?

   look: in a city of loathsome reptiles, norquist is the most vicious, despicable, scumbag of them all. it’s not just that he doesn’t care about baghdad; he doesn’t care about america either. he cares about getting and keeping his own wealth and power, no matter what it costs our country and our people.

2. MNPundit Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 11:31 am

   He is actually right about that. Not that people don’t care, but the country’s size and variation is a huge part of why they don’t pay as much attention or remain ignorant.

   We have tropics, swamps, deserts, plains, forests, mountains, tundra, coastlines, relaxing beaches. Nearly any type of climate on this planet can be found in one of the 50 states, so there’s no reason to ever need to go anywhere else.

   There are other reasons of course, and I think people should care, but the variety and enormity of the country is a big one.

3. Dan Kervick Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 11:50 am

   As he sees it, Americans don’t care at all about foreign policy because our country is very big and you can drive hundreds of miles without crossing a border.

   Tell Norquist he can speak for himself. I live in New Hampshire, which shares has a border with Canada. Unlike the Americans in the great central outback, we here in New Hampshire have learned foreign policy by osmosis.

4. Mary Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 12:24 pm

   Andrew Sullivan is shining a spotlight on all those who championed Palin. Norquist belongs on the list too as he was there right off the bat with his WaPo op-ed. Which is sort of odd because she never signed his tax pledge and she did, in fact, raise taxes. Is Norquist not serious about taxes anymore?

5. Brad L Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 12:39 pm

   As he sees it, Americans don’t care at all about foreign policy because our country is very big and you can drive hundreds of miles without crossing a border.

   Purely as a matter of analysis, I am not so sure this is wrong. I am repeatedly surprised by how little attention our two current wars get, and how little people seem to care about them.

   That’s cynicism I can believe in.

6. bob Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 5:19 pm

   Yes, Sarah Palin is a tax raiser, a tax and spend Republican! She raised sales taxes something like 0.5%, which is significant and should clearly disqualify her from Norquist’s support if he wasn’t another total GOP hypocrite.

   Did you hear the main claim to fame of her town in Alaska is marijuana cultivation?

7. davido Says:
   September 3rd, 2008 at 8:44 pm

   “Americans don’t care at all about foreign policy”

   And yet we always seem to be at war thousands of miles away from, not just our borders, but our hemisphere (9 times by my count since 1900). Hmmmm…

8. Steve Sailer Says:
   September 4th, 2008 at 3:33 am

   Grover’s views on foreign policy aren’t terribly different from Matt’s, but if he expressed them strongly, his wife, who is Palestinian, would get smeared by the neocons, so who needs that?

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