California Conservative

In the many conversations I’ve had with King, we’ve often talked about testing theories, situations where 2 people make statements that are diametrically opposed to each other. It’s a situation where one person is wrong, the other right. Such is the case with Joe Klein’s post and this IBD editorial. Let’s start with Joe Klein’s column first:

Shame on me. I was elsewhere yesterday and missed the health care summit. I’m catching up now, and the tea leaves seem to indicate that Obama came out well ahead of the Republicans. How do I know that? From Matt Drudge, of course. I mean, Drudge’s takeaway from the summit is that the President talked a lot; actually, the President, the Congressional Democrats and Republicans each spoke an equal amount; the Times of London found it boring and the networks turned to other programming.

Reading between the lines, you can conclude that the Republicans had nothing very interesting, or clever, to say (and were never able to get the President’s goat). And that the President was his usual, unflappable, well-informed self. You can also conclude that not much progress was made at the summit, as Karen reports here–but that’s a huge surprise, right?

If ever there’s a way to tell who won, there’s no better way than by what the headlines on the Drudge page says. Is he kidding me??? The first thing I thought when I read Mr. Klein’s analysis (I’m using that term loosely) was “Good grief Charlie Brown. How do idiots like this get paid a penny for their thoughts and their writings? (more…)