Left Coast/Right Coast #15: The Modern World
The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin has taken some heat around these parts over the past few months for many of the pieces she's written about the candidates, favorable and unfavorable. Today, The Daily Caller's Mickey Kaus asks her about the recent pieces she's written about Rick Santorum. Her answer may surprise many of you. Then, a lively debate about Santorum's rise (and just how far he'll go), how Romney holds on, whose party can better bring back manufacturing jobs, and close with the prospect of a third party entering the fray.
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Sep '10
Re: Left Coast/Right Coast #15: The Modern World
I mean it both ways. It's not fair, of course, but then neither is life. It's about choosing your battles, knowing that the media will bumper sticker everything you say.
The New Clear Option
You mean, if the media focuses our attention on the Right as religious people operating in a public sense, right? · 51 minutes ago
May '10
Re: Left Coast/Right Coast #15: The Modern World
Blue Yeti
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This podcast would be a lot better with a moderator, like Troy Senik on Law Talk. Kaus and Rubin make a lot of big assertions, and since they tend to agree with each other, they don't really back them up at all. · 1 hour ago
Interesting idea. Not sure who would do it, but worth thinking about. Thanks. · Feb 24 at 9:36pm
Blue, don't mess with it. It is just fine the way it is. Mickey is the moderator, Jennifer is the foil, sometimes they agree, fine. As long as the discussion is interesting- and it is.
Jul '10
Re: Left Coast/Right Coast #15: The Modern World
On blue collar jobs. In the oil patch (West Texas, South Texas, the Dakotas, Pennsylvania) you can earn $20.00 an hour, 80 hours a week, if you can drive a truck, pass a drug test and show up on time. If you know how to use a wrench or more sophisticated tools, the hourly wage goes up. A lot of similar jobs would be available if the administration wasn't slow rolling Gulf drilling permits and offshore drilling. Drilling requires many other blue collar jobs such as rig construction and pipe manufacturing, most of it occurring in the US. It only has to be rationally unleashed.
Jan '11
Re: Left Coast/Right Coast #15: The Modern World
Just to let you know I really enjoy these podcasts. Mickey Kaus is one of those rare people of the left in the public sphere that I really admire, because he seems open to discussion, and has a good sense of humour!