I’ve been more than a bit irritated by Vice President Cheney’s recent comment that no one saw the financial crisis coming. In response, Zachary Karabell has a very interesting essay on Robert Shiller and his prescience not only about the financial crisis but the character and drivers of that meltdown.
Well, I’m not losing real badly — but not winning either. I might make a big push on Monday to pull in a couple of thousand votes — but if you want to help by sending your ten or twenty or hundred best friends to vote for The Washington Note, we’d be quite pleased.
For those of you who can’t laugh now and then, move on. I’ll be serious again soon. Promise.
Washington, DC is now in a pensive state — just waiting for the Inauguration festivities to finally, really arrive. I’ve just finished telling a number of folks that I’m just out of beds for those who hoped to crash (for free) at my place.
This just in from a TWN regular reader who had a White House tour: Steve, you’ll love this. Just took a tour of the West Wing. One of the pictures outside the Situation Room (apparently they change them frequently) is of Cheney with “Angler” open on his desk.
Paul Kerr at Total WonKerr has an interesting piece up about Iran’s nuclear intentions. I think he’s on target and have long felt that what Iran wants less than a nuclear weapons program is a nuclear weapons “option.
Former Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE), whose strategic mindset and approach to US foreign policy rejects the “false choice” and “zero sum game approaches” that the Bush administration has often taken in the Middle East between Israel’s interests and Arab regional interests on one hand and between Russia and NATO on the other, has been offered…
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy This is a short clip of myself discussing America’s mess in Afghanistan with Rachel Maddow. And here is a link to a new U.S.
At 9:15 pm EST, I will be discussing Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke’s soon to be made appointment as Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the just released USIP report on Afghanistan and its indictment of US policy there with Rachel Maddow on MSNBC.
I am at the Geneva Airport preparing for a day of flying home to Washington. Excuse me if I accidentally tzpe a “z” where a “y” should be. . .as I just did. Geneva was great. Free transportation on all public transport lines for visitors who come through the airport and all hotel guests.