Senator John Warner’s call for President Bush to begin a troop drawdown by Christmas is indeed a big development, given his influence and credibility with Senate Republicans and his stature within the party. But it is far from clear what kind of effect it will have in moving Republican votes on the issue in the [...]
I’ve been bumped from the Colbert Report because of a Stephen Colbert cast-related medical emergency. Rescheduled for September. UPDATE: I did tape a shocking bombshell of an interview with Colbert last night. It has been held until September–allegedly–because of the storm of protest that will ensue when it airs and also because Colbert took so [...]
A few weeks ago, Mitt Romney said he supports adding an anti-abortion amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as called for in the Republican Platform. Now he says he would allow individual states to determine for themselves what to do about abortion. Another flip-flop? That’s how it looks to ABC News and to the Washington Post. [...]
TIME Assistant Managing Editor/Swampland Intern Michael Duffy (Have we mentioned he’s a best-selling author?*) wants to know: I’m just an intern here, but here’s what I’m curious about this morning: Has Fred Thompson picked a date to get into the race yet? I gather he has agreed to a debate in New Hampshire in September [...]
In the new issue of dead-tree TIME, my Washington Bureau colleague Amanda Ripley takes an in-depth look at GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani’s chief selling point in his 2008 campaign for the White House, and finds that it isn’t entirely what it’s advertised to be. She writes in part: This much is indisputable: Giuliani knows what [...]
This article in the Washington Post about how Democrats are “recalibrating” their position on Iraq given the “good news” coming out of Iraq is extremely depressing. It betrays a dangerously low level of knowledge about the situation on the ground in Iraq. First of all, Hillary Clinton was absolutely right when she told the VFW: [...]
to the VFW today represents a new demagogic low, even for him. The notion that the non-nation of Iraq, a colonial contraption cobbled together from disparate provinces of the Ottoman Empire by the British in 1918, can in any way be compared to the deeply homogenous Asian countries of Japan, Korea and Vietnam is so [...]
Should the networks and interest groups that have been sponsoring the seemingly endless series of debates and candidate forums start limiting their invitations to those contenders who seem, by whatever definition, “viable”? Having so many candidates onstage fighting for air time does make it harder to come up with any format that goes beyond gotcha [...]
