This is why it took so long for the WH to get that letter to Specter: [Click on the pic for more footage!] But, get it out they finally did. Thing is, I think anything written by kittens would make more sense: CNN Correspondent Suzanne Malveaux said the administration’s letter declared that NSA programs other [...]
The Weekly Standard reproduces the following letter written by Cheney during his time as “Acting President.” The magazine implies that this document somehow counters how he is “caricatured” as “Darth Vader.” Uhm, yeah, it’s real… warm: Dear Kate, Elizabeth, Grace, Philip, Richard and Sam, As I write this, our nation is engaged in a war [...]
I think the answer is: At this point–when most Americans have yet to tune in to an election that is still more than a year away–these kinds of questions about candidates are meaningless, as are the national horserace numbers (at least when they are comparing well-known candidates against yet-unknown ones). The fact is, national surveys [...]
I can’t be the only person weirded out by the findings of the latest Gallup poll on “confidence” in the presidential field: We all know who the front-runners are, right? I’m pretty sure they’re Hillary Clinton and Rudy Guiliani. So explain to me why, when asked specifically about leadership skills, Americans say this: * 55% [...]
Karl Rove and his like-believers have analyzed the 2006 elections and told just about anyone who will listen that the reason Republicans were wiped out had mostly to do with corruption and very little to do with Iraq (and therefore, conveniently, little to do with President Bush). Now, I strongly believe that grim sentiment about [...]
Bloomberg’s Lindsay Fortado comes up with this interesting tidbit: Lawyers at Kirkland & Ellis, the law firm that’s home to Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr and Bush administration official Jay Lefkowitz, have given more to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign than to all of the top Republican candidates combined. Kirkland, based in Chicago, is one of several [...]
Continuing with an experiment in showing you what I take away from the breakfast table: “So the Vice President is kind of a unique creature, if you will, in that you’ve got a foot in both branches.” Well, I don’t know about unique. Cloven-hoofed joy-suckers are a dime a dozen in this town… Finally, Ted [...]
