34 Quotes by Kevin Drum

We didn't create ISIS. ISIS created ISIS.

On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers.

Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.

Democrats are awfully sensitive to losing power for a few years. I report, you decide.

Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact.

If Robert Heinlein is more to your taste than George Lucas: "If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for, but there are certain to be ones you want to vote against." That's certainly true of me. Over my lifetime, the Republican Party has done far more to repulse me than the Democratic Party has done to appeal to me. But the result in the voting booth would be about the same either way.

You're more likely to vote Democratic if you hate Republicans than if you love Democrats, and vice versa.

We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.

The WHO took care to explicitly say that processed meat didn't rank alongside smoking when it comes to cancer risk.