During the Mark Foley scandal last fall, there was talk on Capitol Hill about suspending, or even shutting down, the 180-year-old Congressional page progam. That didn’t happen. In fact, as Tracy Schmidt reveals in this story on Time.com, the Foley scandal has done wonders for the page program’s popularity. Go figure.

Reporters who ask Hillary’s people what their response is to Obama’s fundraising announcement get this: “We are thrilled with our historic fundraising success and congratulate Senator Obama and the entire Democratic field on their fundraising, which demonstrates the overwhelming desire for change in our country,” Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle said today. Translation: Obama? [...]

A link. Just because I read — and was amused by — Wonkette years ago.

Bush, yesterday, explaining why former strategist Matthew Dowd has soured on the Iraq war: Matthew’s case, as I understand it, is obviously intensified because his son is deployable. In other words, he’s got a son in the U.S. Armed Forces, and I can understand Matthew’s concerns. You know, if I were Bush, I might not [...]

I wonder which number scares the Hillary camp more, the $25 million, or the 100,000 donors. And they did it all without the fundraising genius of “the Big Dog” or the Macker. A Swampland correspondent writes to predict the Clinton response: “We are disappointed that a Democrat would deem it appropriate to motivate so many [...]

This, from the Obama campaign: Chicago, IL- The Obama for America campaign today announced that it will report raising at least $25 million from more than 100,000 people in the first quarter of 2007, with at least $23.5 million eligible to be spent in the Democratic primary. “This overwhelming response, in only a few short [...]