Legal Commentary

The New "Very Serious People": Our Village Bloggers

By Big Tent Democrat

This Greg Sargent post explains precisely why I am trying hard to coin the new phrase "Village Bloggers" --

There’s a debate raging in the blogosphere about whether the Senate bill has been so watered down that it’s time to try to kill it, and one thing that’s interesting is how cleanly it breaks down as a disagreement between operatives and wonks. The bloggers who are focused on political organizing and pulling Dems to the left mostly seem to want to kill the bill, while the wonkier types want to salvage it because they think it contains real reform and can act as a foundation for further achievements.

[. . .] In the latter camp are wunder-wonk types like Ezra Klein, Jonathan Cohn, and Nate Silver.

(Emphasis supplied.) You see. The new Very Serious People. Our very own Tom Friedmans. BTW, NATE SILVER is now a health care "wonk"?!? Sheesh. And why no Kevin Drum or Matt Yglesias? I wonder if feelings have been hurt.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 15, 2009 (boomark / email).