The General Services Administration generally isn’t one of those departments that captures the public’s attention. The GSA is, by design, a behind-the-scenes agency — it helps other parts of the government function by managing federal contracts. Of course, we’re in the midst of the Bush Era, during which every government office is little more than […]
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: * If you missed it over the weekend, seven Democratic presidential candidates met at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on Saturday for a forum on health-care policy. The event was sponsored by […]
The NYPD spent at least a year monitoring, infiltrating, and investigating groups planning to hold protests at the Republican National Convention in 2006. And now, wouldn’t you know it, the department doesn’t want to talk about it. The New York Times reported yesterday that the NYPD kept secret files on hundreds of GOP critics, even […]
I noticed that Atrios had labeled David Broder yesterday’s “Wanker of the Day,” and went to see why. At first, I nearly missed it — Broder wrote a largely unremarkable column about the latest poll from the Pew Research Center, detailing the Republican Party’s problems. “Six years of Republican control in Washington have taken a […]
When dealing with a scandal as sweeping as the prosecutor purge, it’s good to keep up on the day-to-day details, but it’s also important to keep the big picture in mind. For example, as Josh Marshall noted last night, “[T]here are some lines we just assume aren’t going to be crossed, lines that are so […]
Given what Republican lawmakers said on the Sunday morning shows, one has to assume Alberto Gonzales’ public-relations offensive isn’t going very well. Three Republican senators voiced fresh concerns on Sunday about Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales’s handling of the dismissals of eight United States attorneys amid questions about whether the firings were politically motivated. The […]