of what is wrong with DC.

He had no clue of how the internet/blogs work as recently as the Lamont/Lieberman campaign and now we're supposed to read his blog?

He was the dumpster diver in chief for joementum using the politics of destruction himself to help lieberman..

what a crock

Unbelieveable and completely disgusting.  Lanny as always spewing the Kewl Kids talking points about how both parties are equally to blame, how we can only solve the problems we face through bi-partisanship, etc., ignoring of course the fact that we are cleaning up the mess the Republicans have made all by themselves. This is pure Liebermanism - unadulterated BS.  The thing that pisses me off about this line is that the Democratic Party after 9/11 really tried to work with these clowns and just got spit upon by them.  Now that they've lost, it would be so unfair of us to hold them to account.  Bah! as  a dirty hippie blogger: Fuck 'em.

But it's aptly named as the pundits blog - taking the worst of the "Republicans disguised as Democrats" pundits and giving them a blog.

So the new political myth these guys want to launch is that Democrats created the politics of personal destruction in the 80s with their investigations of Reagan.
The Reagan investigattions, according to Lanny were examples of "gotcha" politics and "food fight" politics.
Pure flaming bag of bullshit. Republican operative revisionist history. Many administration officials were indicted, convicted and plead guilty to crimes, because Democrats were willing to put in an honest day's work keeping the US government honest. How many people were convicted out of the Whitewater investigations?
Check out this (abridged by me)  WIkipedia entry on "Reagan administration scandals:"

Iran-Contra Affair
Elliot Abrams
agreed to cooperate with investigators and in return was indicted and plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges. He was sentenced to two years probation and one hundred hours of community service. He was pardoned by George H.W. Bush on December 24, 1992 along with five other former Reagan Administration officials who had been implicated in connection with Iran-Contra. [1]
National Security Advisor Robert C. McFarlane, pled guilty to four misdemeanors and was sentenced to two years probation and 200 hours of community service and was ordered to pay a $20,000 fine.[2] He was pardoned by Bush.
Alan D. Fiers was the Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency's Central American Task Force. He pled guilty in 1991 to two counts of withholding information from Congress and was sentenced to one year of probation and one hundred hours of community service. He was pardoned by Bush.[3][4]
Richard R. Miller - Partner with Oliver North in IBC, an Office of Public Diplomacy front group, convicted of conspiracy to defraud the United States.[5][6]
Clair George was Chief of the CIA's Division of Covert Operations under President Reagan. George was convicted of lying to two congressional committees in 1986. He was pardoned by Bush. [7][8][9]
Richard Secord was indicted on nine felony counts of lying to Congress and pleaded guilty to a felony charge of lying to Congress.[10][11]
Thomas G. Clineswas convicted of four counts of tax-related offenses for failing to report income from the Iran/Contra operations.[12][13]
Carl R. Channel - Office of Public Diplomacy , partner in International Business- first person convicted in the Iran/Contra scandal, pleaded guilty of one count of defrauding the United States[14][15]
John Poindexter, Reagan's national security advisor, was found guilty of five criminal accounts including lying to Congress, conspiracy and obstruction of justice. His conviction was later overturned on grounds that he did not receive a fair trial (the prosecution may have been influenced by his immunized testimony in front of Congress.)[16][17]
Oliver North was indicted on sixteen charges in the Iran/Contra affair and found guilty of three - aiding and abetting obstruction of Congress, shredding or altering official documents and accepting a gratuity. His convictions were later overturned on the grounds that his immunized testimony had tainted his trial.[18][19]
[edit]Department of Housing and Urban Development grant rigging

The HUD scandal
James Watt, Reagan's Secretary of the Interior was indicted on 24 felony counts and pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor. He was sentenced to five years probation, and order to pay a $5000 fine.[20]
Philip Winn - Assistant HUD Secretary. Pleaded guilty to one count of scheming to give illegal gratuities.[21]
Thomas Demery - Assistant HUD Secretary - pleaded guilty to steering HUD subsidies to politically connected donors.[22]
Deborah Gore Dean - executive assistant to Samuel Pierce - indicted on thirteen counts, three counts of conspiracy, one count of accepting an illegal gratuity, four counts of perjury, and five counts of concealing articles. She was convicted on twelve accounts. She appealed and prevailed on several accounts but the convictions for conspiracy remained.
Catalina Villaponda - Former US Treasurer, HUD[23]
Joseph A. Strauss - Accepting kickbacks[24]

Lobbying Scandal
When an administration staff member leaves office, federal law governs how quickly one can begin a lobbying career.
Michael Deaver, Reagan's Chief of Staff, was convicted of lying to both a congressional committee and to a federal grand jury about his lobbying activities after he left the government. He received three years probation and was fined one hundred thousand dollars after being convicted for lying to a congressional subcommittee.[25]
Lyn Nofziger--White House Press Secretary - Convicted on charges of illegal lobbying after leaving government service in Wedtech scandal. His conviction was later overturned.[26]
[edit]EPA controversy

The Environmental Protection Agency Scandal
Rita Lavelle was convicted of lying to Congress and served three months of a six-month prison sentence.[27]
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Savings & Loan Bailout
Reagan's "elimination of loopholes" in the tax code included the elimination of the "passive loss" provisions that subsidized rental housing. Because this was removed retroactively, it bankrupted many real estate developments made with this tax break as a premise. This with some other "deregulation" policies (ratified by a Democratic congress) ultimately led to the largest political and financial scandal in U.S. history: The Savings and Loan crisis. The ultimate cost of the crisis is estimated to have totaled around USD$150 billion, about $125 billion of which was consequently and directly subsidized by the U.S. government, which contributed to the large budget deficits of the early 1990s.
An indication of this scandal's size, Martin Mayer wrote, "The theft from the taxpayer by the community that fattened on the growth of the savings and loan (S&L) industry in the 1980's is the worst public scandal in American history. Teapot Dome in the Harding administration and the Credit Mobilier in the times of Ulysses S. Grant have been taken as the ultimate horror stories of capitalist democracy gone to seed. Measuring by money, [or] by the misallocation of national resources...the S&L outrage makes Teapot Dome and Credit Mobilier seem minor episodes." [28]
John Kenneth Galbraith called it "the largest and costliest venture in public misfeasance, malfeasance and larceny of all time."[29]

Reading down the list, at least her commentary strikes a sensible note, and in the last line, skewers Bush for another example of his out-of-touch demeanor.

Stoddard's post was ok, but I just left my "angry liberal" reply to that piece of c**p Lanny posted.

Shorter Lanny: "We won, now let's surrender."

I won't be returning there.

Thanks for raising my BP this morning.  

There should be some kind of rule that states that before a "pundit" is allowed to spew forth his/her inane bile, they must be able to produce at least two examples of where their punditry was incontrovertibly not only "insightful," but factually accurate (say, within the past 6 months). Lanny, Dick and the boys "spin" like a 78 Victrola; their "ideas and insights" amount to nothing more than Beltway bloviating and ego exfoliation. I wish that, in my job, being correct one time in past 10 years would give me the right to be considered a "genius," worthy of everyone else's praise and admiration in perpetuity. These guys are pretenders and they make me sick!  

i would like to remind everybody and i would like to remind President Bush as well that he is Commander in Chief of the military not of the citizenry / we pay him to work for us / how much has the bush administration forgotten this / go, Nancy

FYI - they are deleting comments made to their blog. I made a comment to the effect that I didn't realize Lanny Davis was a Democrat - that I thought he was a member of the COnnecticut for Liberman Party.

It is now gone.

What thin skins they have!

I'm glad they've left this comment up...

in case they delete it:

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Right.... the time for partisanship is over.

Ha.

When will you learn that unilateral disarmament is a dumb, dumb idea?

The Democrats are the party of the center.

Comment by Brad Johnson -- January 3, 2007 @ 2:43 pm

If a web log is a blog, shouldn't a pundit blog be a pog?  Didn't those already go out of style?

i'm glad there's finally an outlet for the "best-known political operatives in America."  in a related question, does anyone know where i can read the writing of other underground political thought-leaders such as david broder, david brooks, and thomas friedman?  

Their comment system is remarkably screwed up.  I've left two, which show up for me as comments #2 and #3, but if I look with a different browser all I get is "Lana" complimenting the site.  That's one way to get around criticism: make it look like they are listening when what you write seems to be sent to the trash can.

...The Pundit Blog is here.

Gee, sorry, I can't - I have to wash my hair tonight.

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Can't I just come to MYDD at least for the Centerfold Photos and racy Cartoons? I wonder? Will the Pundit Boys spend a lot of time rollicking in bed with the Pajama clad 101st keyboarders? I'm sure the pillow fights with Mark Foley refereeing will be just swell! Liberman  and McCain of course will provide a Liberal Surge of Koolaid for all!

In the words of an old friend

Can you imagine anything more obnoxious than someone who is satisfied with how intelligent they are ..?