I don’t always agree with the WaPo’s Howard Kurtz, but today’s column about a certain media phenomenon was exactly right. OMG Paris Hilton got out of jail early, like, how did that happen and who does she think she is and how can being confined to a totally rad Hollywood mansion really be, um, punishment? […]
It’s certainly not funny when someone falls and hurts themselves, but the politics of this is kind of amusing. Robert Bork , the one-time U.S. Supreme Court nominee, has sued the Yale Club for negligence. He is seeking $1 million in damages for injuries he sustained from a fall at the club last year. […] […]
I’ve raised a fuss, on more than one occasion, about prominent pols failing to acknowledge their mistakes. With that in mind, I most certainly should be willing to acknowledge my own. I suggested a few days ago that former House Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-Texas), who joined Time’s Swampland blog for a temporary stint, was […]
Well, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has demonstrated a willingness to shake things up a bit. MSNBC reports, “Pentagon sources are telling NBC’s Jim Miklaszewski that Defense Secretary Gates has replaced Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff with Adm. Mike Mullen. He is currently the Navy’s chief naval officer.” Pace’s recent […]
You’ve got to be kidding me. Republican leaders yesterday threatened a “total shutdown” of Senate business if Democrats keep holding up President Bush’s appointments to the federal bench. “It could cause major meltdown,” Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott, Mississippi Republican, said after Democrats postponed a committee vote on the nomination of Leslie H. Southwick to […]
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 WaPo had a front-page item today on a large number of John McCain backers jumping ship to sign up with Fred Thompson lately. For example, John Dowd, McCain’s former personal lawyer […]
The now-infamous K Street Project, created by congressional Republicans to dominate Washington’s powerful lobbying industry, is no more. It started unraveling a bit last year, but the election of a Democratic House and Senate sealed the deal. Roll Call reported yesterday that the “legacy” of the Project, of course, lives on. Democrats aren’t creating their […]
USA Today had an interesting item on a topic that has generated a surprising amount of attention in two separate Republican presidential debates: modern biology. Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister, have been explaining their positions ever since they and Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo first indicated in a […]
It’s not my intention to return, for a third day, to Mitt Romney’s bizarre assertion that IAEA weapons inspectors were not allowed entry into Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, but rather to use the incident as an example of media malpractice. If politics made sense, Romney’s mistake would have been an immediate disqualifier. No one who’s that […]
Proponents of the immigration reform compromise measure working its way through the Senate, as recently as a few days ago, thought they had the momentum. It would be close, but they thought they had the votes to get the Bush-backed bill through the chamber. So much for that idea. The sweeping immigration overhaul endorsed by […]