[lbo-talk] The Nation: Webb's Prison Crusade

[Mark Rickling]

On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 4:48 PM, SA <s11131978 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was suspicious of Jim Webb when he first surfaced with his whole white
> economic populist schtick. But I have to say this sounds impressive.
>
>> "We have 5 percent of the world's population and 25 percent of the people
>> in prison," he said. "Either we're the most evil people on earth, or we're
>> doing something wrong." As for the imprisonment of nonviolent drug
>> offenders: "I saw more drug use at Georgetown University Law Center when I
>> was a student there than I've seen anywhere else in my life," he said, to
>> knowing laughs. "And some of those people are judges."
>
> Am I missing something?

Doing an about-face on card-check:

http://washingtonindependent.com/39637/another-dagger-to-card-check

One wonders how Chris Hayes would explain this given that he believes
Webb is "indifferent to the rudiments of electoral politics."