Dems debate. Ish. 7:03 PM Hello, welcome to “one giant job interview.” 7:04 They are all sweating. A lot. 7:05 PM I don’t think they can hear Olbermann. There is no proof positive that Dodd heard a single word. He took a question about the infrastructure and, you know, talked about Iraq. 7:07 PM HRC [...]

Ana: As it happens, I was in the audience when Rudy made his “surprise” comment yesterday, and I don’t think it’s such a surprise at all. He’s suddenly making a very serious move in Iowa, after many people figured he would ignore it. One of the reasons he senses opportunity: McCain’s fall, which puts potential [...]

At a campaign stop in Iowa, Rudy took a question on repealing McCain-Feingold and turned it into one of the strangest endorsements of the cycle, saying of John McCain, “If I weren’t running for president, I’d be here supporting him… If for some reason I made a decision not to run, he’d be my candidate.” [...]

• What’s a reluctant union-buster to do? HRC pollster Mark Penn did not have labor relations with that firm: Penn said “he was avoiding a role in overseeing the part of the company’s practice that involved management-labor issues.” [LAT] • Threat Level reports that the new FISA bill “gives the Bush Administration a six-month window [...]

I dialed into the conference call yesterday held by “senior administration officials” to brief reporters on the “FISA modernization bill.” There were lots of long pauses and repeated phrases, but very little light shed on what the new law actually does and why it was necessary to grant the executive branch sweeping new power to [...]

Maybe presidential candidates aren’t morning people. Those sharp-eyed folks over at FactCheck.org uncovered some particularly sloppy assertions by the Republican contenders during last Sunday’s “This Week” debate in Des Moines: The Republican presidential candidates debated – and sounded some more false notes: * Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney falsely claimed U.S. job growth had been [...]