The Family Research Council’s “Values Voters Summit” in DC over the weekend produced a treasure trove of bizarre and frightening anecdotes, but this one, at least so far, has to be my favorite. Even in this crowd of nearly 2,000 Christian conservative activists, some balked at one tactic recommended to turn out church voters. In […]
Has this Congress, which has been in-session for less time than any in the last six decades, earned its “do-nothing” title? Consider the tale of the tape. At best, it appears that just 2 of the 11 required spending bills will pass, and not one has been approved so far, forcing a stopgap measure to […]
Last week, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez equated George W. Bush with Satan in an address before the United Nations General Assembly. (Speaking from the same podium, Chaves said he could “still smell the sulfur” from where the president stood.) Even Bush critics conceded that comparing the president to the devil was a little over-the-top. Chavez, […]
As Slate’s Fred Kaplan explained a while back, a [tag]National Intelligence Estimate[/tag] ([tag]NIE[/tag]) “is not an ordinary report. It marks the one occasion when the Central Intelligence Agency warrants its name, acting as a central entity that pulls together the assessments of all the myriad intelligence departments, noting where they agree and where they differ.” […]
I’ll have the transcript up as soon as CNN posts it, but George W. Bush appeared on “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” this afternoon and made one of those stunning remarks that could — or rather, should — become a political problem for the White House. Blitzer asked the president to respond to the nightmare […]
The debate in DC over whether and how to torture — I still find it painful to type those words — gripped the political establishment for a couple of weeks, and Dems on the Hill took an entirely passive approach. It wasn’t necessarily because they didn’t care, it was more part of a deliberate strategy: […]
As stunning as Bill [tag]Clinton[/tag]’s interview on [tag]Fox News[/tag] was, no one should overlook the fascinating interview the former president did yesterday with MSNBC’s Keith [tag]Olbermann[/tag]. (C&L has some of it, and MSNBC has clips of nearly all of it.) Olbermann, as he is wont to do, asked a poignant question: “This is not what […]
How are Democrats going to approach the midterm elections? We’ve been getting some conflicting reports. Roll Call suggested this week that Dems are going to do what they did in 2002 and 2004. Forced to play defense on national security for the third election year in a row, Congressional Democrats have been huddling in recent […]
We won’t be able to see the video until tomorrow, but in the meantime, I think readers will enjoy checking out ThinkProgress’ item on Fox News’ Chris Wallace’s interview with President Bill Clinton. It was taped yesterday for broadcast tomorrow. As Judd noted, the interview was intended to be about the Clinton Global Initiative and […]
ABC News reported last night that Arkansas Gov. Mike [tag]Huckabee[/tag] (R) played the compassionate-conservative card yesterday, appearing at the [tag]Family Research Council[/tag]’s “[tag]Values Voters Summit[/tag],” and delivering a half-way progressive message that the audience didn’t want to hear. ABC suggested it was Huckabee’s “[tag]Sister Souljah[/tag] moment.” It wasn’t. At today’s Values Voters Summit, Gov. Mike […]