Unless you’re on the far right of Israeli politics, this has been an incredibly depressing few months in, for and about Israel. Amidst all the awful, last week Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called his erstwhile coalition partner (the politically inept) Yair Lapid’s bluff and booted him out of the governing coalition. This meant Netanyahu had to call for new elections (now scheduled for March). And it was universally assumed that this would lead to a strengthening of the parties of the right and thus a strengthening of Netanyahu’s hand.
But since then something weird has happened in the Israeli body politic.
Ed Kilgore says it’s time for the Dems to stop agonizing and get over being shut out in the Deep South. Who cares.
Yet another Red State prepping to shift gears and buy in to Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion.
In face of torture report, Fox News yacker completely loses it. “America is awesome!!!” Watch.
With unified control on Capitol Hill, DC Republicans are now planning on forcing the CBO, the official Congressional number crunching office, to start using special GOP math (aka “dynamic scoring”) to analyze their budget bills.
Over recent weeks, as the shooting deaths of Michael Brown and Tamir Rice and the earlier chokehold death of Eric Garner have woven together into a common narrative about race, police violence and accountability, we can see something like a movement taking shape not only in individual cities but nationwide. But we should ask the question: why now?
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