Reading the presidential polls this year–particularly on the Republican side of the ledger–it looks almost as though there are two elections going on. Romney has a comfortable (and growing) lead in Iowa and New Hampshire, and yet he’s not getting much traction in the national polls. The latest Gallup Poll has Romney mired in the [...]
Senate Democrats have been dealt a major setback on the legislation that had been considered their best hope for changing the course of the Iraq War. John McCain, ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, has announced that he and the influential John Warner will be sponsoring a symbolic “sense of the Senate” amendment instead. [...]
Matt Yglesias is totally right about this: Clinton’s position on an undivided Jerusalem is a dreadful pander and very much against (a) reality and (b) our long-term interests in the region.
Mickey Kaus sidles to the defense of Drudge here. What neither Mickey nor Drudge seems to understand is that Clinton wasn’t proposing proof of health insurance as a requirement for work, but merely speculating on the sort of details that would be worked out in Congress. Two other thoughts about this: First, the simplest way [...]
