I think I’m just about living up to the edicts of Conventional Wisdom here: for me, the headlines out of the first quarter filings are “Obama” and “Romney.” McCain’s not out of it — though I’m sure the campaign wishes it were not just me saying so — and Clinton’s take is less impressive than [...]

Like Jay, I was struck by the sense of remorse — and responsibility — that permeated Dowd’s interview, as well as by its apparently spontaneous nature. (A PR person I know asked after she heard the news: “Does he have a book coming out?” He doesn’t.) But what looks like genuine regret to some can [...]

This is fabulous news from the Supreme Court. Let’s hope it lifts some of the remaining diffidence in DC regarding actual solutions–as in, carbon taxes or cap-and-trade programs, or a bit of both.

It’s bad enough when other elected members of your party go out of their way to criticize you and distance themselves from you, as many GOP lawmakers have done to President Bush recently in the still-unfolding US Attorneys scandal. They, after all, have to worry about their House and Senate seats. But your problems are [...]

Lots of speculation in the ether about my disagreement with Andrea Mitchell over what David Petraeus told the Republican Caucus about the surge. She claimed that Petraeus told Republican Senators the surge would show results by September. I said that couldn’t possibly be true…and was about to say more, but stopped when I realized that [...]