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 […]
One would need a full-time research staff to chronicle and monitor all of the unqualified partisans who were awarded to top government jobs because they share the White House’s ideology, but the Federal Reserve is supposed to be different. There are some things the Bush gang is just not supposed to mess with, and the […]
Last week, the WaPo’s Chris Cillizza asked, “Will President George W. Bush get any kind of bump in the polls following his latest State of the Union address?” For the past two weeks, the White House and its allies have tried as hard as they can to manage expectations and dismiss any notion of a […]
Long time readers may recall that I sometimes like to put together Friday round-ups to take stock of what we’ve learned about the president over the last seven days. I haven’t done one since December, but this week lent itself well to just such a post. Indeed, my friend Peter Daou, riffing off a post […]
Former FEMA Director Mike Brown’s testimony before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is even more entertaining than expected. Brownie has been the administration’s scapegoat for months — and today he seems determined to turn the tables and place the blame for the Katrina fiasco on his former colleagues. (The WaPo is running […]