Who is this guy?
I don’t know, but he sounds like CBS’s answer to the SF Chronicle’s Morford, a perpetually hissy individual!
I also want to know, what the heck is a ‘jockocracy’?
RobbyS wrote: “Who is this guy?”
A lib ‘Rat.
Kevin Drum (born October 19, 1958) is an American political blogger and columnist. He was born in Long Beach, California and now lives in Irvine, California. He has a degree in journalism from California State University, Long Beach. Currently, he writes daily on the prominent blog Political Animal, published by the liberal magazine Washington Monthly, and has done so since March 2004. He also writes occasional op-eds in newspapers such as the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post. He rose to prominence through the popularity of his (now-defunct) independent liberal blog CalPundit (2003-2004). His blog is known for suppoirting peak oil theory and related issues. In an interview with Norman Geras he stated that his intellectual heroes were FDR, Isaac Newton, John Maynard Keynes, Edward R. Murrow and Charles Darwin. He also considers Benjamin Franklin his all-time favorite political hero.
As for the 2003 Iraq War, probably the number one topic of political bloggers, he was originally in favor of the American led war but right before the U.S. launched the attack he came out against it. He said, “Before the war started I switched to opposition on practical grounds (i.e., that George Bush’s approach was incapable of accomplishing the goals it was meant to accomplish). Since then, I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion that, in fact, I should have opposed it all along on philosophical grounds: namely that it was a fundamentally flawed concept and had no chance of working even if it had been competently executed.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Drum