Matt Yglesias

22 Responses to “Shocking News”

1. jps Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 10:16 am

   Matt, how much do you think Section 128 of the bailout bill will take from the credit markets before it’s stopped?

2. joe from Lowell Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 10:21 am

   Progressives must be very disappointed.

   So very, incredibly disappointed.

   It’s like a civil war in the Democratic Party.

   And also too, socialism.

3. boz Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 10:27 am

   You complain when the media report about liberals being unhappy with the cabinet. You complain when they report about conservatives being unhappy.

   What do you want them to do? Say that Obama has an incredibly high approval rating during the transition and most people are quite pleased? That wouldn’t sell papers.

4. Rich Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 10:30 am

   One word: MANDATE

5. CarlP Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 10:36 am

   The headline was pretty stupid. I guess it’s maybe a flipside to other reports where liberal groups do not think Obama is liberal enough in his appointments. One paragraph I could not quite figure out is this one.

   
   

   Besides Achtenberg and Lee, other transition advisers’ past positions are sending off flares in the ultra-conservative wing of the Republican Party. None of them responded to requests for comment.

   Is it talking about Achtenberg and Lee, other advisers, or ultra-conservative Republicans who do not want to comment. I assume it’s the last group so it would be funny to watch flares coming out of some guy’s ears without him saying a word.

6. myglesias Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 10:41 am

   What do you want them to do? Say that Obama has an incredibly high approval rating during the transition and most people are quite pleased? That wouldn’t sell papers.

   And yet, it’s true — the vast majority of people are very happy with Obama.

7. WinSmith Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 10:53 am

   I don’t think the GOP Congressional leadership is too conservative. I think they’re fucking morons.

8. David Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 10:54 am

   I kept waiting to find out what was so liberally liberal about the affected parties and chuckled when I got to it:

   When President Bill Clinton nominated Achtenberg for assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1993, she was the first openly gay political figure to win confirmation. But before she could get the job policing housing discrimination, Helms, a famed conservative, temporarily blocked her hearings. He said that he did so because she was a “damn lesbian” and also a “militant-activist-mean lesbian.”

   Another nomination battle arose in 1997, when Clinton proposed Lee, a Chinese American civil rights lawyer, to be the Justice Department’s assistant attorney general for civil rights. Conservative opponents blocked Lee, a supporter of affirmative action, for a year. Lee, who is now a lawyer in private practice in San Francisco, served in the job as a presidential recess appointment and later won confirmation.

   It raised the small question in my mind whether or not this was a story about what assholse Helms and Co. were (and are).

9. Craig Says:
   January 2nd, 2009 at 11:17 am

   Matt Yglesias spends time crtiicizing political journalists, but he would make a lousy political journalist himself. Not just because his spelling is bad, but because he is too smart. He would find it boring to run around asking people questions and writing their answers down. Some subjects like financial markets or science require actually intelligence to do straight reporting on. The subjects are complicated and interesting. The mechanics of politics on the other hand are a boring tedius subject best reserved for the Carol D. Leonnigs of the world.

10. Tinare Says:
    January 2nd, 2009 at 11:31 am

    In other news, the earth is rotating.

11. Zaid Says:
    January 2nd, 2009 at 3:43 pm

    “Laura Skaer, executive director of the Northwest Mining Association, said mining groups were anxious when they heard of Leshy’s role, but later were comforted by news that moderate Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Colo.) was Obama’s pick to head Interior.”

    Translation: He put one of us in there! b (^_^) b

12. cd Says:
    January 3rd, 2009 at 8:31 am

    I’d also like to point out that the NYTimes has two front page stories today about the incoming administration. One is all about how some people in the administration might disagree on an issue(!), like how to deal with climate change. The other is a gripping article about how if Obama does something that his supporters don’t like, his supporters will get mad.

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