Spin Machines

Reihan takes issue with the substance and tone of Bruce Bartlett interview:

My central disagreement with Bartlett is that I don't think it's verysensible to interpret political history as a series of psychodramas.One could present the same facts in a very different matter, e.g.,noble congressional Republicans only passed the Medicare prescriptiondrug benefit because they feared demagogic attacks from the left, whichthreatened a massive political defeat that would impair their abilityto...