An “Eyewitness” for the Prosecution

Who could this eyewitness to the David/Crow/Rove smackdown possibly be? In the eyewitness’ version, again, David and Crow are a bit more aggressive than their own story suggests. The eyewitness says David told Rove, You need to bring in new people to tell you the truth. Rove mentioned Dr. John Marburger, the White House science [...]

Ask Swampland: Staring into One’s Navel

Thanks a ton for all the questions you posed here. It will take awhile to work through them; I decided to start with some housekeeping-related queries first. A nice batch was submitted by paul_lukasiak: 1) You have the title of “editor of Time.com” Do you actually perform any editorial functions — do you, for instance, [...]

In the Arena

Gilt by Association

Turns out Barack Obama had a long-term relationship with the real estate developer who helped the Senator expand his South Side property. Turns out the developer was a slumlord. Turns out John Edwards, populist crusader against offshore tax breaks, worked for a hedge fund that offered offshore tax breaks. My bet: Both these stories seem [...]

Ask Swampland Delayed, Meanwhile: Ask Scalia!

The Correspondents’ dinner is still wreaking a little havoc with my head. Will get to your questions ASAP. Speaking of the dinner: Yes, a good friend (best friend, really) and I had a lengthy, animated, and basically serious conversation with Justice Scalia at the Vanity Fair party after the dinner. We discussed the partial birth [...]

In the Arena

RE: Kos

In my column this week I reported that Kos had bashed Barack Obama for his position on Iraq war funding. Obama said he was opposed to adding a withdrawal timetable, or deadline, to the next funding bill the Democrats send Bush after he vetoes the current legislation. Kos accused Obama of surrendering. In a subsequent [...]

Today on the Trail: Obama talks foreign policy in Chicago

TotT is a daily rundown of campaign events, compiled by Katie Rooney. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is keeping it local today, delivering his postponed foreign policy speech from last week to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs at the Fairmont Chicago Hotel at 11 a.m. This isn’t the first time Obama’s made this speech to [...]

The Ties That Blind?

I found today’s Washington Post story on John Edwards and his ties to the New York hedge fund operator Fortress Investment Group far more interesting than all the coverage of where he gets his hair cut. But then, he is far from alone. When investment outfits hire these politicians who are not known to have [...]