Update: This post has been updated, expanded, and broken down by category. Just to follow-up briefly on Michael’s guest-post from yesterday, Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) new-found opposition to Roe v. Wade is rather remarkable, even for him. In 1999, McCain was in New Hampshire, campaigning for the GOP nomination as a moderate. He proclaimed himself […]
Just so readers know, I’m back from my vacation and ready to dig back in. A very special thanks to the tremendous work from Michael J.W. Stickings, Anonymous Liberal, and John Cole, who generously contributed some terrific guest posts in my absense. It’s great to know that I can occasionally step away from the desk […]
Guest Post by Morbo While Democrats find themselves wondering if the country is ready for the first female or black president, Republicans face a different dilemma: Is America ready for its first Mormon president? Mitt Romney, the governor of Massachusetts, has definitely thrown his hat in the ring. As a one-term governor of a state […]
Guest Post by Morbo I try to avoid news about celebrities, but in this culture it’s next to impossible not to see some. Thus, I read recently that Brittney Spears and her husband, Kevin Federline, are divorcing, as are the Hollywood couple Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe. This leads me to conclude that it was […]
Guest Post by Morbo One of the great political myths of America is that African-American voters are like lemmings who do whatever their clergy or political leaders tell them to. That certainly was not the case this month in Prince George’s County, Md., a majority-black jurisdiction east of Washington, D.C. Several local Democratic politicians there, […]
I have bad news and good news. The bad news is I’ll be stepping away from my desk for four whole days, Thursday to Sunday. It will be my longest time away from the blog in over three years. (It’s up to Dale and TAIO to try and guess exactly what I’ll be doing with […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * I’m still officially neutral on the House Majority Leader fight between Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and John Murtha (D-Pa.), but if Roll Call is right, Murtha has a problem. Apparently, Murtha told a group of Democratic moderates yesterday that an ethics and lobbying reform bill being pushed by Nancy Pelosi […]
Dan Froomkin today asked the question of the week: “Is Bush’s claim that he wants to work in a bipartisan manner a genuine change — or a ruse? Watch what he says — but even more so, what he does.” Good idea. And in the week since the election, what he’s done is nominate a […]
What on earth has gotten into James Carville? Democratic strategist James Carville says his party should dump Howard Dean as chairman of the Democratic Party because of incompetence. Carville, during coffee and rolls with political reporters today, said Democrats could have picked up as many as 50 House seats, instead of the nearly 30 they […]
It was an interesting, three-way showdown today at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, with Dems talking about a timeline for withdrawal, John McCain talking about adding 20,000 more troops to Baghdad, and CentCom commander Gen. John Abizaid saying they’re both wrong. The McCain-Abizaid discussion was particularly interesting. MCCAIN: Did you note that General Zinni […]