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Josh at work Joshua Rosenau spends his days defending the teaching of evolution at the National Center for Science Education. He is also a graduate student at the University of Kansas, completing a doctorate in the department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. When not modeling species distributions or battling creationists, he writes about developments in progressive politics and the sciences.

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"I think these people are still fighting Watergate"

Category: Policy and Politics
Posted on: July 18, 2008 10:18 AM, by Josh Rosenau

That's what John Dean just said, quoting Rep. Jane Harman, about Dick Cheney and the rest of the Republican party. Meanwhile, I note that John McCain still seems to think he's fighting Vietnam The Hundred Years War.

Let me say that Netroots Nation rocks. I ran into Nate Thames, a friend and fellow Kansas blogger who now works at ActBlue, raising funds for progressive candidates. At the airport, I ran into Ed Brayton, who was being picked up by Dailykos's DarkSyde. Later I got to hang out with Seed Media's Ginny Hughes, and met author Mark Bowen.

John Dean just finished slapping around the Republican Party, and now Cass Sunstein is reporting the horror that is our current Supreme Court. Justice Scalia has voted to overrule 48% of government agency decisions; Thomas votes to uphold policies from conservative administrations 48 times more often than he does policies from liberals.

Now Michael Waldmann of the Brennan Center is mangling an explanation of punctuated equilibrium, making a generally valid point that evolutionary rates rise after catastrophes like meteorite strikes. In terms of constitutional law, Waldmann points out, George W. Bush has been a meteorite.

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...George W. Bush has been a meteorite.

The proper metaphor would be an asteroid (but with two S's).

Posted by: Pierce R. Butler | July 18, 2008 11:40 AM

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