Matt Yglesias and the Totally Awesome Energy Narrative

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  February 29th at 01:00 PM  | 

Dig the moats, unroll the concertina wire and man the battlements! With the looming possibility of $4.00 per gallon gasoline at the pump, the Left’s defense of President Obama’s disastrous energy policies has begun in earnest. Matt Yglesias unfurled the narrative at Slate.com: Out of Gas, The folly of blaming Obama for higher gas prices. …[T]his should all serve as a reminder that there’s little | Read More »

‘It’s Bush’s Oil Spill’

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  May 16th at 08:03 AM  | 

It’s a lie, a gross distortion or a paranoid delusion. Take your pick. In a Daily Beast article, blogger Matthew Yglesias does his best to shoehorn a few bits of truth into the Obama gang’s favorite narrative: “It’s Bush’s fault!” In making his argument that the blowout and spill resulted from lax enforcement by the Minerals Management Service, Yglesias focuses on a program known as | Read More »