Legal Commentary

"Shocked" That "Centrism" Means Anti-Solomonic Splitting Of The Baby?

By Big Tent Democrat

Ezra Klein writes:

it's been a dazzling display of the most analytically bankrupt strain of centrism: The belief that the right answer lies, by definition, somewhere between the answers that are already on the table. The Nelson-Collins bill hasn't been justified in terms of virtues so much as in terms of abstract numerical positioning.

The only thing surprising about this is that anyone is surprised about this. Clearly, the President seems surprised by it. This is why Nate Silver's writings on the subject have seemed off base to me. These things are not argued on the merits. They are argued "on the middle." Yep, time for my politics is defining the middle quote:

[T]hat is FDR's lesson for Obama. Politics is not a battle for the middle. It is a battle for defining the terms of the political debate. It is a battle to be able to say what is the middle.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on February 09, 2009 (boomark / email).