Democrats trying to figure out Iraq funding legislation they can get Bush to sign are working on a bill without timelines and without much of the unrelated domestic spending that fattened up previous versions. But they may attach a minimum wage hike to the bill. Will anti-war members bolt? Should they? I never liked the [...]
Juan Cole plays his usual valuable role in sifting through the news from hell. Despite his disclaimers–and he’s entirely correct to disclaim–I found his speculation about some sort of political shakeup imminent in Baghdad to be interesting: So of the central club, al-Hakim is now absent [taking lung cancer treatment in Iran]. And, Jalal Talabani [...]
On a blogger conference call just now, McCain fired the first shot in what is sure to be a series of ongoing frontal assaults on Mitt Romney. According to someone on the call, in response to a question about Romney’s immigration position, McCain said he’d “wait a couple of weeks and see if the winds [...]
We’re all in New York, meeting with our colleagues to determine the very future of the Republic. Feel free to leave suggestions here for how you’d like to see the 2008 campaign covered — either by us or by the media in general or by yourselves. Keep it relatively clean, if you can. Easier to [...]
Most horse race polls are useless this early in a presidential campaign. National polls are totally useless–a reflection, mostly, of name recognition. Local polls are interesting or not, depending on the state. Iowa and New Hampshire polls are more interesting than others, since those presidential politics is a major industry in those two states and [...]
John Edwards hits New Hampshire like a snowstorm, covering the state from Keene to Claremont to Lebanon. Hillary Rodham Clinton Meets announces a “major policy initiative” at North Beach Elementary School in Miami Beach, Fla. John McCain gives a policy speech to the Oklahoma State Legislature. Michelle Obama does a coffee talk at “Chit n [...]
