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: * Sen. [tag]Joe Lieberman[/tag] (D-Conn.) has been very nervous about his political future in light of [tag]Ned Lamont[/tag]’s primary challenge, but a new Quinnipiac poll shows Lieberman in fairly good shape. Despite the […]
As you probably heard, the Boston Globe ran a deeply disturbing item a few days ago, which highlighted the fact that the [tag]president[/tag] has “claimed the authority to [tag]disobey[/tag] more than 750 [tag]laws[/tag] enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to [tag]set aside[/tag] any statute passed by [tag]Congress[/tag] when it conflicts […]
Leading the way on the list of “things that will never happen,” Nancy [tag]Pelosi[/tag] suggested yesterday that House Speaker Dennis [tag]Hastert[/tag] help launch an ethics committee [tag]investigation[/tag] into whether two defense contractors supplied Duke Cunningham and other lawmakers with [tag]prostitutes[/tag]. Citing media reports, Pelosi wrote to Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) to urge the House’s top […]
Last week I promised not to report on [tag]Bush[/tag] polls unless they showed him reaching new lows. As it turns out, there are two new national [tag]poll[/tag]s that do just that. First up is USA Today/[tag]Gallup[/tag]. Six months before [tag]Republicans[/tag] try to hold on to control of [tag]Congress[/tag] in the fall elections, a new poll […]
Nearly three months ago, Raw Story reported that Valerie [tag]Plame[/tag], before being outed by the [tag]Bush[/tag] White House, was “part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from [tag]Iran[/tag],” while working on the clandestine side of the [tag]CIA[/tag] in the Directorate of Operations as a non-official cover […]
Way back on Jan. 4, Scott McClellan promised reporters a “thorough report” on Jack [tag]Abramoff[/tag]’s [tag]White House[/tag] contacts “very soon.” Shortly thereafter, [tag]McClellan[/tag] decided he didn’t want to talk about the issue anymore. At this point, the White House must be working quite diligently on McClellan’s “thorough report,” because no one’s heard a peep on […]
I’m finally back at my desk, about 40 hours later than I was supposed to be. I can say with considerable confidence, however, that I’ve learned several important things. First, Michael J.W. Stickings from The Reaction came through for me in a huge way. I’m not surprised his guest posts were terrific, because I’ve long […]
(airport wi-fi blogging is cool) I overheard a couple of people talking at the airport about how Stephen [tag]Colbert[/tag] killed at the White House Correspondents’ Association [tag]Dinner[/tag] over the weekend. I caught a snippet here and there, and thought it was a fairly typical roast-like stand-up routine. But after seeing the whole thing, and then […]
It’s a terribly long story, but I was supposed to be back home from a quick weekend trip by Sunday afternoon. It didn’t happen. Not even close. Long story short, I won’t be back at my desk today and won’t be able to post until tomorrow. I asked The Reaction’s Michael J.W. Stickings, who had […]
The “culture of corruption” story has had a considerable impact over the last year and a half, but it seems to me, this raises the issue to a higher whole new level. Federal authorities are investigating allegations that a California defense contractor arranged for a Washington area limousine company to provide prostitutes to convicted former […]