A couple of weeks ago, David Corn had a really interesting item about Barack Obama’s highest hurdle on Feb. 5. It’s not necessarily Hillary Clinton, it’s the way in which the timing of Super Tuesday moves the campaign away from his strengths as a candidate. “With Obama, it’s not about his career highlights, it’s about […]
Bush’s abuse of signing statements has been a constitutional mess for several years now — with more than 151 signing statements challenging 1149 provisions of laws, Bush is without rival in American history — but this week, matters grew particularly ugly. After a bizarre and unexpected veto, Congress passed a defense authorization bill, funding, among […]
Joe Lieberman aide Dan Gerstein has been ridiculed quite a bit about bloggers in recent years — he’s not quite the target Jonah Goldberg is, but during the Connecticut Senate race in 2006, it was close — but he doesn’t usually poke the bear with a stick quite as blatantly as he does today. His […]
Over the last year or so, when John McCain was struggling to get his presidential campaign back on track, one of his more notable challenges was reinventing himself — again. When he got to Congress, McCain was a rather conventional conservative Republican. After his role in the Keating Five scandal, McCain took on a reform-minded […]
As a rule, senatorial memoirs aren’t especially exciting. They’re frequently exercises in vanity, with personal anecdotes that aren’t quite as interesting as the lawmakers tend to believe. But former Sen. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, who left the Republican Party after losing his re-election bid in 2006, actually seems to have put an interesting book […]
First up from the God machine this week is a religion/politics story we’ve been following for weeks with great interest: exit polling and faith-related questions. In all of the major primaries and caucuses, the National Election Pool, including representatives of several major news outlets, conducts exit polls of voters. The problem this year, though, is […]
Earlier this week, Steve Sailer speculated on where neocons, who had backed Rudy Giuliani’s presidential bid with considerable enthusiasm, go now that the former mayor’s campaign has finally been put out of its misery. (via publius) So, are all the neocons who got jobs in the Giuliani campaign, like N. Podhoretz, Frum, Rubin, going to […]
It’s been a busy 12 hours on the presidential candidate endorsement front, so let’s take a quick review of which candidates have lined up what support. Barack Obama has been faring well among California’s newspaper editorial boards, winning the endorsements of practically all of the state’s largest newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, the San Francisco […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Breathtaking attack in Baghdad: “Remote-controlled explosives strapped to two mentally handicapped women detonated in a coordinated attack on pet bazaars Friday, police and Iraqi officials said, killing at least 73 people in the deadliest day since the U.S. sent 30,000 extra troops to the capital this spring…. Iraqi officials […]
One wonders if the president’s conservative allies are still complaining that the strength of the economy is the “greatest story never told.” Nervous employers cut 17,000 jobs in January — the first such reduction in more than four years and a fresh sign that the economy is in danger of stalling. The Labor Department’s report, […]