Joe Romm has a curious post up today that begins this way:
While some confused people think we are headed to a post-partisan era, more reality-based analysts, like centrist political reporter Dana Milbank, know what nonsense that is.
Romm's "post-partisan era" link takes you to a piece he wrote several weeks ago that was critical of a bipartisan white paper that had advocated massive public investment be the cornerstone of a new energy/climate strategy, rather than carbon pricing. In floating this trial balloon, the authors of the proposal (representing three think tanks across the political spectrum) were in no way suggesting that the nation is headed to a "post-partisan era." So that's the first bit of sly disingenuousness in Romm's current post. The second involves referencing Dan Milbank's latest WaPo column to make a larger point about the emerging makeup of the Republican party, which Romm writes
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