The twists and turns are coming quickly on the Larry Craig story. In the latest news, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ken.), who just last week said the charges against Craig were “unforgivable,” told reporters today that he’s spoken to Craig and discussed the Idaho Republican’s plan to return to the chamber. Sen. Larry Craig […]
American Enterprise Institute “military analyst” Fred Kagan is not exactly a neutral observer when it comes to the president’s “surge” strategy. In fact, Kagan is perhaps best known for being the architect of the surge, crafting the policy in 2006 as an alternative to the Iraq Study Group’s recommendations. While the ISG said “sustained increases […]
When Sen. Larry Craig’s (R-Idaho) team started letting reporters know late yesterday that the senator was reconsidering his resignation, there was some talk that Craig was floating a trial balloon, seeing what kind of reaction the rumors received. As of this afternoon, this is no trial balloon; Craig is seriously trying to mount a comeback. […]
Though never quite as well known as his brethren in Virginia (Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson), televangelist D. James Kennedy led a religious right powerhouse for a generation, creating a megachurch in South Florida, a $37 million evangelical multimedia empire, the Center for Reclaiming America, the Center for Christian Statesmanship, and a major annual religio-political […]
The president is in Australia this week and apparently spent most of yesterday trying to rally support for Prime Minister John Howard, an ideological ally of Bush. At a press conference, the president said of Howard, “I wouldn’t count the man out. As I recall, he’s kind of like me. We both have run from […]
The horrifying news is that three suspected terrorists in Germany were apparently poised to conduct some very deadly acts. The encouraging news is that German officials apprehended the would-be killers and disrupted their plot. The police in Germany have arrested three Islamic militants suspected of planning large-scale terrorist attacks against several sites frequented by Americans, […]
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: * Eight of the nine Republicans presidential hopefuls will meet for a debate in New Hampshire tonight, with only Fred Thompson preferring Jay Leno’s couch to the GOP forum. The debate starts at […]
CBS News’ Katie Couric had an odd, six-minute interview with the president during his quick visit to Iraq on Monday, which CBS aired last night. There were a couple of noteworthy exchanges, but this one stood out. Couric: The surge was designed to help the Iraqi government to move forward. Do you believe there really […]
The Republican reaction to Sen. Larry Craig’s (R-Idaho) possible change of heart is predictable — if I were in the GOP leadership’s shoes, I wouldn’t be pleased either — but I think the party is confused about the motivating factors here. Top Republican strategists were neither delighted nor amused by the senator’s decision to rethink […]
I argued yesterday that the White House, without admitting it, was trying to unveil a new Iraq policy just as the old one was failing. Officials aren’t willing to come right out and say so, but they’re actually conceding that the surge policy is an abject failure, and quietly introducing an entirely new approach at […]