(Editor’s Note: The Carpetbagger Report, as regular readers know, has joined the Coalition for Darfur, a bi-partisan online initiative created to raise awareness and resources to address the crisis. This is the latest in a series of posts from the Coalition.) As Mark Leon Goldberg of the American Prospect reported back in April, the Bush […]
The quote of the day came on NBC’s Today show this morning. Tim Russert said he spoke to a Republican source last night who told him: “If this was a Democratic White House, we’d have congressional hearings in a second.” It’s a no-brainer. There’s a White House scandal in which national security was compromised and […]
Obviously, the person everyone wants to hear from directly on the Plame scandal is Karl Rove. Short of that, press secretary Scott McClellan will do, but he’s not talking. And then, of course, there’s their boss. The White House is suddenly facing damaging evidence that it misled the public by insisting for two years that […]
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: * If scandal-ridden Rep. Duke Cunningham (R-Calif.) runs for re-election, as he claims he will, he’ll have to deal with a primary challenge for the first time in his career. Businessman George Schwartzman, […]
There have been a number of excellent responses from Dems on the Hill to the Rove scandal, but one stands out for me. Harry Reid said, “The White House promised if anyone was involved in the Valerie Plame affair, they would no longer be in this administration. I trust they will follow through on this […]
Clearly, the White House has been rattled by the Rove/Plame scandal, but let’s also take a moment to note how unconcerned they are by the seriousness of the last important presidential scandal: Iran-Contra. In 1987, Robert L. Earl told a grand jury that he had destroyed and stolen national security documents while working for Lt. […]
With Karl Rove’s Plame scandal finally hitting the big time, Republicans are taking a wait-and-see approach. They’re inclined to stand by him, but they don’t want to get caught supporting a guy who’s going to be fired, or worse, indicted. There was, however, one interesting response yesterday from one of the few high-profile party officials […]
If you’ve seen yesterday’s White House press briefing, you know that this wasn’t the usual give-and-take between Scott McClellan and the press corps. The reporters seemed … what’s the word … angry. There’s been ample speculation about what finally prompted change from these guys, especially since they were so disinterested in the Plame scandal last […]
It’s nice to see the last two reporters who helped bring down a corrupt presidency weigh in on the latest scandal to burden a different corrupt presidency. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein appeared together on CNN yesterday afternoon, in part to promote their new book on Mark Felt and Watergate. But, in light of current […]
White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan took questions from reporters twice today, once in an informal gaggle this morning, and again in the formal briefing room this afternoon. Those of us who’ve lamented the fact that the WH press corps was negligent in following up on the Plame scandal last week have nothing to complain […]