There are few people in Washington who better understand the inner machinations of government than Scott Lilly, the former staff director of the House Appropriations Committee (among many posts he has held on Capitol Hill) and now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Today, he writes about the back story behind the [...]
Jeff “Call Me Trooper” Garrity has taken a leave of absence, the campaign has confirmed, pending the resolution of the Massachusetts and New Hampshire complaints.
Obama’s stab at ethics reform in the Senate had its rough spots, but today he announced a whole suite of initiatives aimed at government reform in the executive branch (including, I’m told, the Office of the Vice President). More important: You can now get Obama ringtones! Pretty pretty shiny! Sleep now byebye.
Or at least the “cop” part… State Police are investigating one of Mitt Romney’s top campaign aides for allegedly impersonating a trooper by calling a Wilmington company and threatening to cite the driver of a company van for erratic driving, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the probe. Jay Garrity, who is director [...]
Over at the New Republic, “Sick” author Jonathan Cohn takes a look at Michael Moore’s similarly titled new movie on the same subject, and finds it wrong on a lot of little things, but right on the big one. By the way, Cohn’s own book, which is a lively read that provides both a history [...]
