Yesterday, Mitt told Pittsburgh reporters that Seamus the Setter “loved” his 12 hour open-air thrill ride on top of the family station wagon and that he “liked fresh air.” If all the Romneys express their love for fresh air the same way as Seamus, I think his administration might have a more immediate enivornmental pollution [...]
WARNING LABEL FOR CRANKY SWAMPLAND COMMENTERS (You know who you are): This is an inside-the-beltway, horserace post. Move along, folks. Nothing to see here. UPDATE ALREADY: Obama is well past 250,000 donors. I can’t keep up.
Elsewhere on TIME.com, Reynolds Holding takes a look at today’s decision. He does not agree with those who see it as the end of Brown v. Board of Education, but says it complicates the picture for school districts across the country: Justice Stephen Breyer led Justices John Paul Stevens, David Souter and Ruth Bader Ginsburg [...]
The first big news from the second quarter fundraising race is in. Barack Obama has built a fundraising base that is approaching 250,000 donors–a stunning total. (By comparison, Howard Dean’s campaign, which had set a new standard for grassroots fundraising, claimed about 70,000 for the first two quarters of 2003.) Political watchers–at least, the ones [...]
According to this extremely confusing NYT article, the White House has backed away from the assertion that he can deny cooperation to the National Archives because of the “Liger Principle” — the OVP is both executive branch and legislative branch — but seem to be asserting that he can deny cooperation to the National Archives [...]
I’ll have a more formal version of this story up in a bit, but: it turns out that strapping your dog to the roof of your car might actually be against Massachusetts state law, which says anyone who carries [an animal] or causes it to be carried in or upon a vehicle, or otherwise, in [...]
Leahy subpoenas the OVP with a compliance deadline of July 18. Watch for: testimony on the so-called Terrorist Surveillance Program from White House chief of staff Josh Bolton, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Cheney chief of staff David Addington, and National Security Counsel executive director V. Philip Lago. The committee wants a ton of documents, as [...]
I can’t be the only one who finds, in this anecdote, something else entirely besides, “emotion-free crisis management”: Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family’s hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon’s roof rack. He’d built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride [...]
Pollster.com proclaims that, starting today, Richardson counts as first-tier candidate, based on his “substantial movement” in Iowa and New Hampshire. Richardson has shown no movement nationally, but, argues Pollster.com: [T]hat is exactly the point. When you see his campaign move in early states but not others and not nationally, you see the variation in strength [...]
