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: * MSNBC reported this morning that Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) will host a 3pm press conference, and Jim Webb (D) will hold one of his own shortly thereafter. According to National Journal, he […]
National Republican Congressional Committee Tom Reynolds (R-N.Y.) managed to survive an unexpectedly strong challenge in his home district, but he nevertheless woke up yesterday with a certain ignominious label: he was the NRCC chairman when Republicans lost the House for the first time in 12 years. In an attempt to understand what went wrong, Reynolds […]
I’m not at all happy about it, but I can’t help but notice that Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), in a 51-49 Senate, holds a lot of cards right now. And he knows it. The morning after a six-month roller coaster of an election season, Senator Joseph I. Lieberman stood victorious, again promising to burnish his […]
I suspect many of you probably avoid most, if not all, of the leading conservative blogs. Truth be told, I used to steer clear of them too, before Peter Daou insisted that I do both halves of the Daou Report. With this in mind, I thought it’d be worth taking a moment to let readers […]
Very little about Donald Rumsfeld’s tenure at the Pentagon has made sense. He was an odd choice to run the Defense Department; he immediately alienated everyone he was supposed to work with; he refused to listen to anyone who disagreed with him; he lost the confidence of the generals; and he created and executed a […]
Last night, the AP called Virginia’s Senate race for Jim [tag]Webb[/tag] (D) and all indications are Dems will be able to officially declare a Senate majority sometime today. The question of which party will control the Senate could be cleared up as early as Thursday, with an ongoing canvass of votes in Virginia showing no […]
First, a quick housekeeping note. As thrilled as I am with the election results, today is easily my most frustrating day I’ve had in nearly four years of blogging. A series of unforeseen tech problems, which are hard to identify and even harder to explain, have caused massive server problems for the last seven hours. […]
Just a week ago, in an Oval Office interview with the AP, the president was unambiguous. Asked about Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, Bush said he wants both of them to remain with him until the end of his presidency. “Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them,” Bush said. Today, […]
The Republican establishment deserves a great deal of credit for its ability to spin just about any disaster, but sometimes, facts are just hard to get around. Just as the GOP thought it was in the midst of building a “permanent majority,” Dems take back the House, the Senate, a majority of the nation’s governors, […]
Dems won a House majority, probably a Senate majority, a gubernatorial majority, and a majority in state legislatures. But one of the more common far-right arguments I’ve seen quite a bit today is that the electorate was rejecting the Republican Party, but not conservative ideas. The GOP got corrupted, the argument goes, but the inherent […]