So, I gather you all (Glenn Greenwald, most notably) picked up on something Time ME Rick Stengel said on The Chris Matthew Show Sunday about the possibility that Congress may pull Rove and Miers in to testify about the USA scandal: “I am so uninterested in the Democrats wanting Karl Rove because it is so [...]

Good catch, Karen — but my latent high school drama geek is demanding that I point out the original source for your former editor’s quip. It sounds like it may spring from this line: “No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up,” from Lily Tomlin’s one-woman show by Jane Wagner, The [...]

Speaking of Obama’s blue-collar appeal: I’m reminded of what a Dem consultant told me recently, “Post-Katrina, I only have one criteria for who I work for: Can he — or she — talk empathetically about class and poverty without a pollster in the room?” A notable failure on that front, the consultant told me, was [...]

A former editor of mine used to joke that no matter how cynical you get in Washington, you just can’t keep up. I was reminded of that this morning as I read the Washington Post report that GSA Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan had instructed employees of the agency to find ways to help “our candidates” [...]

Ron Brownstein’s excellent column about Barack Obama’s blue-collar deficit has been raising a fair amount of dust in the blogosphere–and rightly so. This is a particularly nice insight: It’s not much of an oversimplification to say that the blue-collar Democrats tend to see elections as an arena for defending their interests, and the upscale voters [...]