How much will we learn tomorrow when Monica Goodling, the Justice Department’s former White House liaison, testifies in front of the House Judiciary Committee under a grant of immunity from prosecution? A spokeswoman for the Committee says it has been given “every indication” that she will be forthcoming. We have a few indications of the [...]
I’m told by a senior Congressional official involved in the negotiations that House Democratic leaders plan to handle their Iraq war funding dilemma by attaching two amendments to a bill sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray. The first amendment will include most of the popular domestic spending (or pork, as critics call it) that was included [...]
A really good eyewitness piece from Baghdad by Spencer Ackerman in the Nation. Hillary Clinton is already raising the question of whether we should keep training the Iraqis on the campaign trail. But, as David Ignatius reports, the Bush Administration sees this a different way. I’m closer to the Ackerman-Clinton position–with a caveat: We’ve had [...]
Here’s David Yepsen–who has covered more caucuses than (even) me–on the meaning of the polls. And here’s the most important thing you should know about Iowa: Finally, the polls show 69 percent of the Democrats and 77 percent of the Republicans say they could be persuaded to change their minds. That will be true, I [...]
TPMMuckraker has an advance copy of a new book about the Dukester, authored by Copley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning team, which tells us what we were missing at all those parties aboard his yacht.
