The talking-points controversy was always strangely misdirected — in part because, as this report makes clear, there is a lot that was substantively wrong with the way things were managed in Benghazi.
Both Ezra Klein and Paul Krugman argue that to the extent this is true, it's a vice, not a virtue, and that Obama's attempt to appeal to the banks' self-interest was both politically tone-deaf and substantively wrong.
"Some courts think that an attorney can reject a contract for basically any reason at all, while others believe that a contract can only be rejected if there is something substantively wrong with it".
All I know is he's factually, substantively wrong.
His assertions are substantively wrong, however; proponents of a $15 federal minimum have grappled with the points he makes and have decided that the case for a $15 federal minimum is actually much stronger than Weissmann's.
And you may also recall wondering why a "liberal" magazine would engage in such a counterproductive and substantively wrong attack on a reporter who was questioning the credentials/promises of the Obama administration from the liberal left.
