Kevin Drum
Kevin Drum
Kevin Drumis a liberal American political blogger and columnist. He was born in Long Beach, California and now lives in Irvine, California...
clinton fbi
The FBI released its report on [Hillary] Clinton's emails. It exonerated her almost completely, but a few days later Matt Lauer obliviously spent a full third of his interview with Clinton on the emails anyway. Lauer was widely pilloried for this.
courses issue nearly percent second sign step
Obviously, the first big step was to get the courses open. We've got nearly 90 percent open. I have a big no vacancy sign on the second subject. Obviously, our big issue is rooms.
concern good month next positive
I feel very good about the future. My concern is this month and next month. Everything is positive about the future.
clinton
When Donald Trump disingenuously demands to know why [Hillary] Clinton never tried to close the loopholes he used, the answer is: She did. And if there had been any way to make it retroactive, she probably would have voted for that too.
president common rich
So many theories. But all of them have one thing in common: They demonstrate that although [Donald] Trump isn't much of a businessman, he is rich enough to hire good tax attorneys who will hand over huge stacks of forms for him to sign blindly. That's a helluva qualification for president, isn't it?
opportunity
[Donald] Trump had the opportunity to go after [Hillary] Clinton's emails at length if he wanted to, but he didn't.
night choices abortion
I read quite a few complaints last night about Lester Holt's choice of debate topics. Liberals wanted to know why climate change didn't come up. Conservatives thought there should have been a question about abortion.
allowed commentary despite fear hold leaks minor national paranoid plenty print reporters secretive security virtually
Let me say this flatly: Leaks are good. They are the way we hold paranoid and secretive governments accountable. Historically, leaks have virtually never harmed national security in even a minor way, despite plenty of shrill commentary to the contrary. Reporters should be allowed to print them without fear of being tossed in jail.
isis
We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS.
cutting sides medicare
On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.
giving answers speech
Carli Fiorina is really annoying. Hell, they're all annoying. But Fiorina doesn't even pretend to offer up policy answers. She just gives mini stump speeches about how bad everything is.
government way socialism
Carli Fiorina says companies are consolidating because it's the only way to compete with big, corrupt government. "This is how socialism starts." Is that also why she bought Compaq when she was CEO of Hewlett-Packard?
cutting littles regulation
We need to cut regulations. Apparently this will make everyone a little more socially responsible?
media missing vote
Marco Rubio turns a question about missing Senate votes into an attack on the mainstream media.