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Believing in Change Yet ? ? ? ?

Matt Taibbi on business as usual in DC and on Wall Street:

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On Matt Tabibi

by Jerome Armstrong, Sat Dec 12, 2009 at 09:50:27 PM EST

I get the sense that Matt Taibbi is hitting his stride now, and is starting to become the major writer of the Obama era from the WTF side of the telling. I have been reading him for some time now, and he just keeps getting better and better. Going back to around the '04 campaign and forward, he seemed amused by the insane quality of American campaigning, and if you've read 'Spanking The Donkey' you know it falls into the Thompsonesque style of covering politics-- splat out insightful but not aspiring of actual policy influence. I don't know that Matt had done ludes or bennies while writing STP, but I wouldn't blame him if it was necessary.
So if you missed it, read Taibbi's latest, The president has packed his economic team with Wall Street insiders intent on turning the bailout into an all-out giveaway; and then you can read a post by Tim Fernholz over at TAPPED, The Errors of Matt Taibbi; and then, what is an eviscerating come back by Taibbi aimed toward Fernholz, On Obama's Sellout.  
Felix Salmon nails the back-and-forth drama




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Managing Foreign Policy and National Security Challenges in Presidential Transitions

Kurt M. Campbell
James B. Steinberg

pp. 7-20

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• Presidents -- United States -- Transition periods.
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• National security -- United States.

The Merits of Dehyphenation: Explaining U.S. Success in Engaging India and Pakistan

Ashley J. Tellis

pp. 21-42

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• United States -- Foreign policy -- 2001-
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Strategic Collaboration: How the United States Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise

Nina Hachigian
Mona Sutphen

pp. 43-57

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The Defense Inheritance: Challenges and Choices for the Next Pentagon Team

Michèle A. Flournoy
Shawn Brimley

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Conservatives and Progressives in South Korea

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Steven Kim

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The EU's Test in Kosovo

Elizabeth Pond

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Picture the Problem: What Does the World Want from America?

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A Less Ideological America

Dmitri Trenin

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Robin Niblett

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Glenn Kessler

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India's Quest for Continuity in the Face of Change

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Wu Xinbo

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Yoichi Kato

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Building the Kingdom of God: Religious Discourse, National Identity, and the Good Neighbor Policy, 1930–1938

David Zietsma

pp. 179-214

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Enacting Transformation: George W. Bush and the Pauline Conversion Narrative in A Charge to Keep

David C. Bailey

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Death by Publicity: U.S. Freemasonry and the Public Drama of Secrecy

Joshua Gunn

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"Playing Up Being a Woman": Femme Performance and the Potential for Ironic Representation

Elizabeth Galewski

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Insisting on Persisting: The Nuclear Rhetoric of "Stockpile Stewardship"

Bryan C. Taylor
Judith Hendry

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The Character of Justice: Rhetoric, Law, and Politics in the Supreme Court Nomination Process (review)

James Jasinski

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In Defense of Negativity: Attack Ads in Presidential Campaigns (review)

Lynda Lee Kaid

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Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic over the City (review)

Troy B. Cooper

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Héctor P. García: Everyday Rhetoric and Mexican American Civil Rights (review)

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Crimes of Loyalty: A History of the UDA (review)

Kassian A. Kovalcheck

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The Rhetoric of Sir Garfield Todd: Christian Imagination and the Dream of an African Democracy (review)

Jairos Kangira

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Crafting the Overseer's Image (review)

Glen McClish

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Rhetorical Action in Ancient Athens: Persuasive Artistry from Solon to Demosthenes (review)

Michele Kennerly

pp. 355-357

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A Ciceronian Sunburn: A Tudor Dialogue on Humanistic Rhetoric and Civic Poetics (review)

James Arnt Aune

pp. 357-360

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Regendering Delivery: The Fifth Canon and Antebellum Women Rhetors (review)

Suzanne Bordelon

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Paul Ricoeur: Tradition and Innovation in Rhetorical Theory (review)

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Rhetoric & Public Affairs

Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 2008

E-ISSN: 1534-5238 Print ISSN: 1094-8392

DOI: 10.1353/rap.0.0040

Insisting on Persisting: The Nuclear Rhetoric of "Stockpile Stewardship"

Bryan C. Taylor
Judith Hendry

Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 2008, pp. 303-334 (Article)

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This essay critiques official rhetoric surrounding post–Cold War–era management of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. During the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Energy developed a "Stockpile Stewardship Program" to certify the safety and reliability of that arsenal in the absence of explosive testing. This program has subsequently been challenged for its vast scale and expense, for its actual utility, and for its potential to facilitate the development of "new" nuclear weapons. This essay critiques "stewardship" as a contested historical and cultural discourse. It argues that, by appropriating this discourse, nuclear officials have rhetorically cast themselves as guardians of nuclear resources for the benefit of current and future generations, and have successfully defended themselves against undesirable change arising from public reconsideration of nuclear deterrence. As a result, this rhetoric has undermined the possibility of a genuine nuclear democracy based on adequate representation and deliberation of nuclear interests in the post–Cold War era.

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