Comic relief but I got nothin' either

[Paul Mackin]

The worse the better.

--Nikolay Chernyshevsky

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Monte Davis <montedavis49 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, when I rambled in the Krugman thread I had the latest GOP
> candidates' debate in mind. I heard something more than the rote
> "leadership" and "strength" and "boots on the ground will work better this
> time" that Milbank observes... more than the bipartisan "indispensable
> nation, something must be done and this is something so we must do it."
>
> I heard a just-barely-subterranean thread of welcoming more Parises and
> Benghazis -- or at least "see, we were right"... of wanting Daesh, Iran et
> al to be as bad as they can be, of *wanting* Manichaean, apocalyptic
> confrontations. Maybe some of it is an attenuated version of the
> bring-on-Armageddon stance of some End Timers among their base.
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/dana-milbank
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