The message didn’t mince words: ” The entire race has come down to this: we must win Wisconsin…. A win there will carry us to the big states of March 2 — and narrow the field to two candidates. Anything less will put us out of this race.” That’s the email Dean for America sent […]
Everyone’s favorite blogger, Josh Marshall, has a fascinating new update on the Plame Game affair. Unfortunately, the news raises more questions than it answers. In late-September, we learned that the Department of Justice was launching an investigation into the scandal, in response to pressure from the CIA. Rep. John Conyers, Ranking Member of the House […]
As much as I’ve always liked John Kerry, in the back of my mind, throughout the campaign, I’ve worried just a little bit about how the GOP machine would attack him in the general election — and whether the charges would stick. The last time the Dems nominated a Dem from Massachusetts, it wasn’t pretty. […]
It was pretty clear in November that the White House was having a tough time selling its Medicare plan. Democrats didn’t like it because it was forcing seniors into HMOs and was basically a sop to insurance companies. Republicans didn’t like it because it was going to cost $400 billion at a time when we […]
I was reading an article at Salon yesterday, criticizing what Christopher Farah called the “furious rise of the anonyblogger,” defined as blogs authored by writers who use pseudonyms instead of their real names. All of a sudden, I remembered that I’m an anonymous blogger and this piece was, indirectly, attacking me. Farah’s analysis focuses on […]
Actually, the headline should read: Dems play hardball and win. Just days after media outlets started reporting that congressional Dems were threatening to break a truce over ethics complaints, House Republicans caved and announced that the Ethics Committee will investigate allegations that Rep. Nick Smith (R-Mich.) was offered a bribe in November in exchange for […]
Two weeks ago, administration critics and sensible people everywhere howled upon learning that Dick Cheney joined Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia for a hunting trip at a private camp in Louisiana, just a few weeks before Scalia and the rest of the high court will hear Cheney’s appeal of lawsuits challenging the secrecy of his […]
I’ve always believed that “spin” is not tantamount to “lying.” Spinning is just putting a positive face on the truth. Spinning is not, to be sure, telling the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but it’s not the same thing as telling objective falsehoods. And when it comes to talking about U.N. inspections in […]
Speaking of the Dems getting tough on White House scandals (see below), I wanted to follow up on something I mentioned two weeks ago. Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) unveiled a resolution in late-January to authorize an independent House inquiry into the Plame Game scandal. Holt, a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, […]
There was a really interesting item in Roll Call today about congressional Democrats, fed up with the Republicans’ unwillingness to look into White House scandals, talking openly about taking matters into their own hands. Frustrated by a lack of cooperation from the White House concerning pre-Iraq war intelligence data, Democratic Senators are considering forcing the […]