The biggest congressional scandal that reporters are intent on ignoring took a turn yesterday, as Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), under investigation for leaking classified information to the press, hired outside counsel yesterday. (Believe it or not, Shelby’s lawyer is — eek! — a Democrat.) Gregory Craig, a partner at Williams & Connolly, will represent Shelby […]
In the unlikely event you haven’t already seen this elsewhere, I wanted to mention that Rep. Rodney “Turncoat” Alexander’s troubles continue to get considerably worse. First, as the DCCC reported, Alexander’s ballot status is being challenged in court. A voter in Louisiana is filing a legal challenge to defective Congressman Rodney Alexander’s ballot qualification, and […]
I don’t mean to belabor this point, but the source of the leak for Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan is important and there continues to be some uncertainty here. The key piece of information in identifying who (and by “who,” I mean which country) was responsible for the leak came directly from National Security Advisor Condoleezza […]
As part of my ongoing obsession over the “military vote,” I saw a few items this week that merely reinforce my belief that this should be the constituency to watch over the next three months. First up, in a little swing state known as Florida, Adam Smith, the political editor of the St. Petersburg Times, […]
At least Bush knows a leader when he sees one. It looked like a coincidence when President Bush and Democratic nominee John Kerry spoke within three blocks of each other along the banks of the Mississippi River in Davenport, Iowa, on the same day last week. This week, a pattern emerged. Kerry, over a six-day […]
Just a few weeks ago, the White House announced its projections for this year’s budget deficit. With an expected shortfall of $445 billion, Bush will break his own record from last year, when the deficit reached $375 billion. But, according to Bush’s gang, there was a silver lining to this cloud. In February, the administration […]
As I’ve mentioned on (probably too) many occasions, Bush addresses large crowds all of the time, but the audiences are almost always made up of adoring fans. When he hosts an “Ask the President” event, the questions are exclusively positive set-ups, agreed upon in advance and designed to make Bush look good. The point is […]
George W. Bush continues to have a silly affinity for an unworkable missile-defense system. It hasn’t made a lot of headlines, but the initial deployment of his missile-defense program is just months away. The administration realizes, to at least a limited extent, that a missile-defense program is about as meaningful as weapons of mass destruction-related […]
Some of my more widely read colleagues endorse favorite candidates with some regularity, so I thought I’d get in on the fun and let readers know about a friend of mine, Nathan Rudy, who’s running for Freeholder in Somerset County, NJ. (In New Jersey, a “Freeholder” is a county commissioner and is responsible for human […]
You’d think that illegally using a non-profit organization’s offices for his campaign would offer Ralph Nader a little extra money. It’s not; this is a campaign with some serious financial troubles. In Pennsylvania, for example, Nader’s campaign hired dozens of petition circulators, many of them homeless, to help try and get their guy on the […]