It hardly comes as a surprise, but the Puerto Rico primary was far from a competitive contest. Hillary Rodham Clinton won a lopsided, but largely symbolic victory Sunday in Puerto Rico’s presidential primary, the final act in a weekend of tumult that pushed Barack Obama tantalizingly close to the Democratic presidential nomination. […] With 93 […]
It’s easy to forget, now that so much time has elapsed, that the president promised to the nation that he would fire anyone involved with the leak of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame’s identity. Karl Rove was found to have been integrally involved with the scandal, and the president kept “Turd Blossom” around — even […]
On Friday, MoveOn.org challenged Scott McClellan to do the right thing with his book profits. Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan has a new book out in which he admits that Bush misled the nation into war. Coming clean is great — but profiting from lying to the public isn’t. McClellan was a critical […]
I’d hoped, in vain, that Phil Gramm’s role in the McCain campaign — which became a more serious issue this week — would generate a bit more media attention than it has. We learned earlier this week that Gramm was chiefly responsible for shaping John McCain’s housing policy in the midst of a mortgage crisis, […]
For quite some time, as the number of remaining primaries dwindled to single digits, the Clinton campaign continued to look at the circle around May 31 on the calendar. It was the meeting of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee that offered at least some hope that the broader dynamic of the Democratic race could […]
Ouch. (via TP) [Sen. Lindsey] Graham used his remarks to embrace President Bush, just hours before he was to meet Bush at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport and accompany him to Furman University for a presidential commencement address that has divided the campus. At his first mention of Bush’s visit, Graham paused, waiting for applause. When it […]
It looks like the Rev. Michael Pfleger’s guest sermon at Trinity United Church of Christ last weekend was one step too far. The priest, known as a “radical gadfly,” went after Hillary Clinton from Trinity’s pulpit, accusing her of harboring a sense of entitlement because she is white. Pfleger later apologized, and Obama publicly expressed […]
Jim Blanchard, the former governor of Michigan, noted yesterday, “I’m reminded of the old Will Rogers adage, which was: ‘I belong to no organized party. I’m a Democrat.’” Ain’t that the truth. Mark Twain is believed to have said that those who respect the law and love sausage should watch neither being made. If we […]
Members of the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee met privately for more than three hours, and apparently hammered out a compromise deal. As expected, it fell short of the Clinton campaign’s more recent demands. Democratic party officials said a committee agreed Saturday on a compromise to seat Michigan and Florida delegates with half-votes after Barack […]
TNR’s Eve Fairbanks reports from DC: Howard Dean may hope that the “healing will begin today,” but two blocks away from the northwest Washington Marriott where the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee is meeting right now to try to figure out Florida and Michigan, the Hillary protesters are occupying an utterly alternate (and healing-free) universe: […]