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: * I guess Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum’s new book hasn’t boosted his popularity in Pennsylvania. A new poll, from a Republican pollster, shows Pennsylvania Treasurer Bob Casey (D) leading Santorum, 51% to […]
Generally speaking, the GOP’s religious-right base will go along with Republican agenda items, even when they have nothing to do with the movement’s theocratic agenda. The James Dobson crowd wants action on abortion and gays, but when asked to toe the line on Social Security privatization, the war in Iraq, and other major initiatives that […]
Robert Luskin, Karl Rove’s attorney, is fond of telling reporters that prosecutors in the Plame scandal told him that Rove is not a “target” of the inquiry. Regardless of the debate between the meanings of “target” and “subject” in the context of prosecutorial interest, Patrick Fitzgerald’s team sure does seem interested in Rove now. To […]
For many years, the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward has breathed rarified air among the media elite. (Bringing down a president will do that to a reporter’s stature.) But, on occasion, that air gets a little thin and Woodward gets confused. Over the weekend, Woodward appeared on the Chris Matthews Show when the issue of the […]
Last week we learned that the Secret Service, after a couple of months of investigating, had wrapped up its criminal probe in the controversy surrounding the Denver Three and decided not to press charges. What did the Secret Service find during the investigation? We don’t know; they won’t say. Why did the conduct fall short […]
I don’t usually deal with sports news, but there’s a political angle here. Bear with me. As baseball fans already know, Rafael Palmeiro has apparently violated the game’s steroid policy and will serve a 10-day suspension. Baltimore Orioles first baseman Rafael Palmeiro, who had defiantly denied using steroids during a congressional hearing on performance-enhancing drugs […]
Because it was a Bob Novak column that originally outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent, there have been a world of questions about what Novak knew, who his sources were, and what the CIA told him when he called to confirm the information he received from “two senior administration officials.” Novak, however, hasn’t said […]
Before we invaded Iraq, the CIA gave the White House unreliable intelligence that the country was an imminent threat with a burgeoning nuclear program, right? Who knew what at the CIA is a matter of some debate. The Central Intelligence Agency was told by an informant in the spring of 2001 that Iraq had abandoned […]
Earlier this year, Bush cautiously entered the fray on the issue of adoption by same-sex couples, saying, “Studies have shown that the ideal is where a child is raised in a married family with a man and a woman.” This struck a number of people as very odd for a number of reasons. First, Bush […]
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: * MoveOn.org has become a target for intense Republican criticism, but that hasn’t stopped its political efforts in the slightest. MoveOn.org’s political action committee reported in its latest FEC filing that it raised […]