Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D) is considered a key GOP target in 2006 and has enjoyed lukewarm poll support of late, but in a new statewide survey, Granholm’s support appears be rebounding […]
My friend Darrell alerted me to an incredible story that ran over the weekend about House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.) and his bizarre intervention in a Chicago drug case. At this point, I think it’s fair to say Sensenbrenner has just about lost it. In an extraordinary move, the chairman of the House […]
I was reviewing some old stories about the Plame scandal and came across a quote from The Guardian’s Julian Borger from September 2003. “Several of the journalists are saying privately, ‘Yes it was Karl Rove who I talked to.’ Now, the thing is that the journalists are not going to name Karl Rove publicly because […]
I honestly thought it was over. Even Jeb Bush had resigned himself to the fact that he could no longer exploit the Terri Schiavo matter. But, alas, the Senate’s nuttiest member, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is still pursuing the case. U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn challenged the accuracy of Terri Schiavo’s autopsy Thursday, saying he has […]
To hear Republican lawmakers tell it, the estate tax needs to be completely eliminated, immediately, to help protect the thousands of family farmers. It’s has nothing to do with lavishing more tax breaks on multi-millionaires, they say, only those hard-working planters and cultivators who help keep food on our tables. Like so much of the […]
To follow up on points raised by Digby and John, I think it’s abundantly clear right now that demanding Karl Rove’s immediate resignation is a no-brainer. Whether he’s a felon remains to be seen, but based solely on what we know about his tactics in the Plame scandal, Rove shouldn’t be able to step foot […]
In case you were away from your computer over the weekend, several pieces of the Plame puzzle have started to come together. The newly-formed picture isn’t a pleasant one for Karl Rove. It was 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003, and Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his […]
Here’s a topic I’ve pondered over for a while. I’m not even sure which side I’d pick. Let’s say you had a choice between your party controlling the White House but having an opposition Congress, or your party controlling Congress but having a president of the opposite party. Which would you choose? Why? Discuss.
Guest post by Ed Stephan George Will wrote a Fourth-of-July column praising David McCullough’s “1776”. To introduce his paean, he set up a sort of straw man in the form of “historicism”: What is history? The study of it — and the making of it, meaning politics — changed for the worse when, in the […]
Guest post by Ed Stephan We seldom notice our own aging. The day-by-day, year-by-year changes are there, but we don’t usually think of them until they become an “event” – though we age continously, we’re suddenly old enough to go to school, drive a car, vote, marry, begin a career, retire. In the abstract, quantitative […]