Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) has been embarrassing for quite a while in his willingness to play the role of partisan hack, but yesterday, on Meet the Press, I was surprised at just how far Roberts was willing to go. Russert: Senator Roberts, let me ask you a very serious question. Do […]
A key member of Congress has been watching the controversy unfold over the president’s warrantless-search program and has some serious concerns. In fact, appearing on Meet the Press yesterday, the lawmaker suggested crimes have occurred. “Congress has outlined the laws by which this will happen…. It’s not in their option whether they’re going to abide […]
Over the weekend, Time and the New York Times published the first-ever picture of President Bush and Jack Abramoff together. Sort of. The picture does not exactly show the two as chummy — it shows the president talking with Chief Raul Garza, then-chairman of the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas, while Abramoff is in the […]
There are any number of interesting angles to the story surrounding Cheney’s hunting incident, but I still think the one that raises the most questions is about the delay in public notification. Given what we know, it almost seems as if the White House was never going to tell anyone that the Vice President shot […]
In the highly unlikely event you haven’t heard… Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot and wounded a companion during a weekend quail hunting trip in Texas, spraying the fellow hunter in the face and chest with shotgun pellets. Harry Whittington, a millionaire attorney from Austin, was “alert and doing fine” in a Corpus Christi hospital […]
TNR’s Ryan Lizza has a fascinating look this week at what some are calling “Hillaryland,” Sen. Hillary Clinton’s impressive network of staffers, allies, contributors, and all-around FOHs. If New York’s junior senator runs for president, she’ll have an amazing team of experienced loyalists that, in many ways, mirrors the qualities of the Bush team from […]
It doesn’t happen often, but once in a while, the president doesn’t realize he’s in front of a live microphone — and he says a few interesting things. In September 2000, for example, then-Gov. Bush didn’t know he speaking in front of a live microphone when he told Dick Cheney, “There’s Adam Clymer, major league […]
Far be it for me to criticize someone else for a typo — I’ve been known to make a few of my own — but if I were responsible for writing multi-billion dollar federal budgets, I’d probably be a little more careful than Republicans on the Hill have been. A typo in the budget-reconciliation bill […]
Just a couple of months ago, after a series of political speeches from the president on military bases, there was growing concern among active-duty troops about whether they were being dragged into a partisan fight. The attacks against critics at military settings may have put troops in the awkward position of undermining their own regulations. […]
First up from this week’s God machine is the latest in a series of twists for evangelism and religious coercion problems at the Air Force Academy. After a year of back-and-forth wrangling, and evidence of school-sponsored proselytizing, the Air Force released new guidelines for religious expression this week — which no longer caution top officers […]