Marshall Wittmann

[Max Sawicky]

I've never debated, or to be more precise,
had verbal exchanges with him.  There was
a piece about him in the Post a few months
ago, and I've heard him on NPR.  He comes
up with these sappy sound-bites that pass
for wit in D.C., not unlike borscht-belt
one-liners but less funny.

The quotes you cite actually are statements
I agree with, but as everyone knows I'm a
kook myself.

mbs

Marshall Wittmann, of Washington's conservative Hudson Institute was quoted
twice in today's New York Times.  He sounds like a kook. Max Sawicky, have
you butted heads with this guy?

First, he's quoted in the cover story about the Democrats taking over the
Senate committee chairs:

""Democrats taking over the committes in the Senate is the equivalent of the
Bolsheviks taking over from the czar during the Russian Revolution," said
Marshall Wittmann, a conservative analyst for the Hudson Institute. "It's
less about legislation and more about the show, what is going to be
highlighted front and center. What is going to be showcased. It will be the
Democratic agenda. And that is very important."

And Frank Rich quotes him in Rich's column on Pearl Harbor:
"As Marshall Wittmann, of Washington's conservative Hudson Institute, says:
"Both parties have reversed J.F.K. Their mantra is 'Ask not what you can do
for your country, but rather what can your country do for your stock
portfolio/benefit package.'""

Peter