The 2008 elections are 11 months away, but it’s only natural for political observers to look ahead and notice a certain trend. The narrow Democratic majority in the Senate is poised to get bigger. The same is true of the modest Democratic majority in the House. While there’s plenty of presidential-campaign wrangling left to do, […]
In retrospect, the National Review might have been better off not going after the Jayson Blair and Scott Thomas Beauchamp stories with so much enthusiasm. As Tom Edsall reports, the conservative political magazine has been publishing stories about events in the Middle East that were apparently fabricated. There is a growing dispute over the veracity […]
The Idaho Statesman was investigating allegations surrounding Sen. Larry Craig’s (R-Idaho) sex life before the scandal broke in earnest in August, and the paper never stopped. Today, The Statesman runs a report documenting four gay men, all of whom have gone on the record, who say “they had sex with Craig or that he made […]
When it comes to security or mistresses, Giuliani believes there’s no price that’s too high (for you). Ouch. On a related note, former Maryland Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R) notes his concern about how the Shag Fund scandal might affect Rudy Giuliani’s presidential ambitions. Ehrlich questioned the timing of the story, which hit just weeks before […]
As recently as a few weeks ago, there was a semblance of stability in Iowa. Among Republicans, Mitt Romney enjoyed a big lead, and was on his way to a fairly easy win, while Mike Huckabee, Fred Thompson, and Rudy Giuliani fought it out for second. Among Dems, Hillary Clinton had a modest-but-steady lead over […]
It’s inevitable that presidential candidates will experience a certain ebb and flow as the process unfolds, but can we all agree that Rudy Giuliani has seen the worst week of any candidate in recent memory? On Monday, Bloomberg News reported that Giuliani, despite railing against congressional earmarks on the campaign stump, and pledging to “get […]
Throughout his first six years in office, Bush had a habit of signing congressional legislation into law, but using “signing statements” to explain which parts of the law he didn’t feel like following. Fortunately, the president curtailed the practice this year, sticking with the more traditional sign-or-veto approach embraced by his predecessors. That is, until […]
Last week, in one of his more breathtaking lies, Karl Rove told a national television audience that it was Congress, not the Bush White House, that pushed for an Iraq war resolution in advance of the 2002 midterm elections. Rove said the administration was “opposed” to moving “too fast,” and that the president and his […]
It’s one thing for Republican presidential candidates to believe nonsense about tax policy, but to brag about it in a TV ad is just embarrassing. “I know that reducing taxes produces more revenues,” Republican presidential candidate Rudolph Giuliani declares in a new television ad launched Thursday. “Democrats don’t know that. They don’t believe it.” There’s […]
The White House has struggled for quite a while when it comes to dispersing federal funds to municipalities for counter-terrorism. In 2006, for example, the Bush administration, slashed money for Washington, D.C., and New York City using a bizarre grant process that no one could explain. At the same time, the administration released a risk […]