AGate fans will want to watch today’s WH briefing, which had Tony Snow in Scott McClellan-like form (battered panda! human traffic cone!) as he tried to sell the admin’s talking points. How bad is it? He’s now gone to both Goyal (of the “Goyal foil“) AND Les Kinsolver (the crazy man). That’s known as “pulling [...]
Michael Crowley makes a point over at TNR’s blog about McCain’s senior moment regarding condoms (Do they prevent AIDS? “You’ve stumped me.”) and how his “old fashioned” bus-tour-talkathon is a bad fit with this whole “blogging” phenomenon: Back in 2000 McCain sat on the bus all day shooting off his mouth about every topic under [...]
How strange am I? Sitting here watching the sun set and moon rise over the Dead Sea–spectacular lower half sliver–and following Gore’s testimony via Brian Beutler’s live-blogging. Hard to tell just exactly what’s going on, but it seems Gore has backed away from his prior support for a massive carbon tax-payroll tax swap…now he’s limiting [...]
Zack Exley has a theory about that “Vote Different” ad: Why is the “Vote Different” creator still in hiding? There can only be one reason: the project was funded by a well known Obama supporter, or someone with very close and public connections to the Obama campaign. Don’t misunderstand, I’m not saying that the Obama [...]
At least one columnist is outraged at the President’s attempt to claim executive privilege: “Evidently, [the President] wants to shield virtually any communications that take place within the White House compound on the theory that all such talk contributes in some way, shape or form to the continuing success and harmony of an administration…Taken to [...]
With President Bush’s argument that conversations between a President and his aides have to be protected, we seem to be headed once again into one of the murkier areas of the Constitution: its presumed guarantee of executive privilege. In his vow to fight subpoenas that would require Karl Rove and other aides to give public [...]
It’s Gerald Grinstein, CEO of Delta Airlines, who emerged from retirement to lead that company through and out of bankruptcy. According to today’s Wall Street Journal, Delta will come out of bankruptcy this spring with a market cap of $10 billion. Grinstein will continue to collect his annual salary of $338,000 until he leaves the [...]
Bush to Congress: “Go Cheney yourself.” He’s gonna fight, and he doesn’t apparently care how stupid the fight is. Bush kept saying that the “real story” will get out when Gonzales and other DOJ testify next week. Uh, didn’t they already testify? And that’s what got them in trouble? The WH has basically called do-overs. [...]
The White House just released counsel Fred Fielding’s response to the request by the Senate Judiciary Committee for testimony from members of the White House staff — i.e., Karl Rove and Harriet Miers. As expected, Fielding, who was brought back to the job he held under Reagan for the purpose of arm-wrestling with a Democrat-controlled [...]
Do I really have to explain my jokes in each column? Obviously, what I was trying to do here was look at the Republican field–with some irony–as a stalwart Republican might: Moderates like McCain, Newt and Rudy living as Pat Robertson would imagine a liberal to live–having serial marriages, cross-dressing (as a joke), appearing on [...]
