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: * Rep. Jean Schmidt (R-Ohio), best known for calling decorated veteran John Murtha a “coward,” was reprimanded by the Ohio Elections Commission yesterday for “false statements” — claiming she had a second undergraduate […]
Ordinarily, [tag]White House[/tag] press [tag]gaggle[/tag]s are relatively quick and painless. Yesterday’s wasn’t. Scott [tag]McClellan[/tag] and the Washington Post’s Jim [tag]VandeHei[/tag] had quite an illuminating discussion en route New Orleans, not about Katrina, gas prices, Plame, or Iraq, but about the [tag]television[/tag]s on board Air Force One. Seriously. “It’s come to my attention that there’s been […]
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Is it too early to start calling this one “[tag]hookergate[/tag]”? Just asking. Following up on yesterday’s revelations about corrupt defense contractors bribing former Rep. Duke Cunningham with prostitutes and use of a nearby “hospitality suite,” the question now turns to who else might have taken advantage of the same “services.” Ken Silverstein at Harper’s new […]
Remember all of those months that went by in which we heard practically nothing about [tag]Karl Rove[/tag], [tag]Patrick Fitzgerald[/tag], and the [tag]Plame[/tag] scandal? Well, they appear to be over. MSNBC reported last night that Rove “described his three and a half hour meeting with a grand jury as grueling, and is more worried about being […]
The fact that Sen. [tag]George Allen[/tag] (R-Va.), a likely Republican presidential candidate, has some “issues” when it comes to [tag]race[/tag] is not exactly new. As governor of Virginia, Allen opposed a state holiday honoring [tag]Martin Luther King[/tag] and referred to the NAACP as an “extremist group.” In the late ’90s, he issued a Confederate History […]
In February, a New York Times editorial asked rhetorically, “Is there any aspect of President [tag]Bush[/tag]’s miserable record on intelligence that Senator [tag]Pat Roberts[/tag], chairman of the [tag]Senate Intelligence Committee[/tag], is not willing to excuse and help to [tag]cover up[/tag]?” For anyone who’s been paying attention, the answer was pretty obvious, but just in case, […]
Faiz at Think Progress noticed what appears to be a pretty obvious flaw in [tag]Karl Rove[/tag]’s defense in the [tag]Plame[/tag] scandal. Rove’s testimony focused almost exclusively on his conversation about Plame with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in 2003 and whether the top aide later tried to conceal it, the source [close to Rove] said. […]
[tag]Fred Barnes[/tag], the executive editor of The Weekly Standard, seems anxious to help advise the Bush White House. A few weeks ago, he offered a four-part “keys to a successful comeback” strategy. This week, Barnes published a new list — a five-part plan for new press secretary [tag]Tony Snow[/tag] to help [tag]Bush[/tag] turn his presidency […]
The amazing thing about [tag]Bush[/tag]’s [tag]Medicare[/tag] scheme is how is manages to capture almost everything wrong with the entire administration. In January, Jonathan Chait argued that the program is the “Hurricane Katrina of entitlement programs,” adding, “The sheer number of devious acts packed into one legislative act boggles the mind.” The program costs too much […]