Salon.com > Lanny Davis http://www.salon.com Sat, 25 May 2013 17:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 What do the Beltway moderates actually want? http://www.salon.com/2013/01/22/what_do_the_beltway_moderates_actually_want/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/22/what_do_the_beltway_moderates_actually_want/#comments Tue, 22 Jan 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13178069 As David Brooks taught us last week, Barack Obama's cunning plan to sabotage and undermine the Republican Party is to repeatedly force them to act as extremist and irresponsible as possible by proposing popular and sensible things that they refuse to support. By advocating gun control and immigration reform, two things Obama supports because he and most liberals believe them to be morally and politically necessary, Obama is tricking Republicans into revealing that they are dysfunctional, leaderless, and increasingly divided into two camps: the all-out crazies and the merely corrupt. This saddens David Brooks, naturally, because most things seem to sadden David Brooks, America's Foremost Humility Expert.

But as the president begins his second term, I thought it'd be useful to try to figure out what "moderate Republican" columnists and "pox on both houses" centrists actually want the president to be doing.

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]]> http://www.salon.com/2013/01/22/what_do_the_beltway_moderates_actually_want/feed/ 15 Lanny Davis and Michael Steele have new moneymaking venture http://www.salon.com/2012/06/18/lanny_davis_and_michael_steele_have_new_money_making_venture/ http://www.salon.com/2012/06/18/lanny_davis_and_michael_steele_have_new_money_making_venture/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2012 17:12:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12940657 It is a bit inaccurate to refer to Fox News Democrat Lanny Davis and MSNBC Republican Michael Steele as "unabashed partisan warriors," in that Lanny is not particularly partisan and Michael is a notably inept "warrior," but that is how Howard Kurtz decided to refer to them in his article about how they are going to launch a consulting firm together.

"Launching a consulting firm" is something people with great connections and zero skills do all the time, and many of Washington's most successful firms already employ both influential Democrats and Republicans, but Davis and Steele added an always-fashionable "deploring partisanship" angle to their very boring announcement, which got pliable Newsweek media reporter Kurtz to bite.

Their new consulting firm/lobbying group is called, and I'm not making this up, "Purple Nation Solutions." It is named after Purple Drank. Hah, just kidding, it is actually named after Michael Steele's favorite '80s Woody Allen movie, "The Purple Rose of Cairo."

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