I just read the WH briefing that Karen referred to in her “liger” post and, well, the Napoleon Dynamite parallel is born out many times in this remarkable presser. A slightly edited selection of highlights: Q Okay. And just lastly, it’s a little surreal — I mean, how is it possible – MS. PERINO: You’re [...]
The $1 million-plus that Fred Thompson’s earned as a lobbyist since the 70s is not, in lobbying terms, very much. (Insert Dr. Evil sound bite here.) In his report for the Huffington Post, Tom Edsall has to slice and dice the fees in order emphasize that, no really, it’s untoward! Untoward, I tell you! With [...]
On Page 4 of the Washington Post, we learn that, Royce C. Lamberth, the former top judge of the court that supervises wiretap and other surveillance applications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, says existing legal safeguards are fast and flexible enough for a post-9/11 world.: In the wake of the terrorist attacks of Sept. [...]
This exchange yesterday in the White House briefing room struck me as awfully familiar: Q Dana, as long as we’re talking about branches of government, can you go back to Vice President Cheney again, the argument that he’s not part of the executive branch. Does the President believe he’s part of the executive branch? MS. [...]
Via Greg Sargent: In South Carolina, Rudy Giuliani runs into another Ravenel problem.
A commenter to my earlier post points to an odd admission from one of the reporters on the Dick Cheney series: The Washington Post changed its headline in today’s hard copy from “The Unseen Path to Cruelty” to “Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power” in the electronic version. One of the article’s authors was just [...]
I guess sometimes it really is just best to face your fears: The revelation of another check from Romney came as a surprise, as Romney had declared at a similar fund-raising event in Boston in January that it would be “akin to a nightmare” if he were forced to self-fund his campaign. His campaign later [...]
Just ahead of the 6/30 deadline for fundraising reports, FORTUNE Washington Bureau Chief Nina Easton gives us this behind-the-scenes look at the scramble for endorsements and contributions from business executives. “What’s different this time,” she writes, “is that CEOs are up for grabs on both sides.” The reason: “long-held alliances shifting under the weight of [...]
Karen ably highlighted the newsy scoops of the Washington Post’s Cheney piece yesterday, but I, of course, was struck by the many moments of not-quite-intentional hilarity. There’s the Dirty Harry moment with Dan Quayle: “I said, ‘Dick, you know, you’re going to be doing a lot of this international traveling, you’re going to be doing [...]
CQ has an interesting bit of news on how certain presidentially-aspiring Senators are behaving behind closed doors. It’s not as exciting as it sounds, but it gives some more context to why it is that Congress is having such a hard time earning the respect of the American voter — and how the Dems’ takeover [...]
