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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: * The DNC initially sent out letters to more than 30 cities, giving them an overview and finding out their level of interest in hosting the 2008 convention. The 11 finalists, announced yesterday, […]
It’s an election year, and Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) is up this year, so it stands to reason that the National Republican Senatorial Committee is going to go after Byrd as aggressively as decency will allow. And then just a little further. But in a swipe at Byrd yesterday, the NSRC went after Byrd for […]
Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-Ind.) Republican Study Committee, a far-right faction of the GOP House caucus, is, to its credit, willing to do many of their colleagues aren’t — present a rabidly conservative legislative agenda in writing. Want to know exactly what far-right lawmakers want to see come out of the 109th Congress? The RSC has […]
The reports about the Bush administration’s breathtaking lack of preparation for post-Saddam conditions in Iraq keep piling up, but this one is even more disturbing than most. U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly warned the White House beginning more than two years ago that the insurgency in Iraq had deep local roots, was likely to worsen and […]
When Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified on the legality of the president’s warrantless-search program, he told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he would only address the now-infamous NSA program because Bush had authorized it “and that is all that he has authorized.” Yesterday, Gonzales clarified this a bit. Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appeared to […]
After the election, talk of Bush’s “political capital” was all the rage. It was the “first buzzword of the second Bush administration,” and according to Karl Rove and the rest of the “strategery” team, this capital would be key to helping Bush execute a bold second-term strategy. The premise of the idea was straightforward enough: […]