In all the foolish hype over the Ahmadinejad visit and the Petraeus testimony and all the other set-piece foriegn policy carnival shows of the past month, the dramatic and very positive movement of the Sarkozy government toward a less reflexively anti-American attitude has been pretty much lost. I’m looking for a transcript of Sarkozy’s UN [...]

Of that campaign “house party” that aims to raise at least $9.11 per person, a friend writes: I guess it’s marginally better than asking for $2,974 from each guest…

We’ve discussed before why this is a fight President Bush is likely to regret having won–and why millions of uninsured children are likely to regret it even more. Now, with House passage of the children’s health insurance bill having fallen about two dozen votes short of a veto-proof majority, it appears the bill is indeed [...]

John Edwards has been ardently courting the health care workers union, whose endorsement is one of the biggest prizes in Democratic politics. And he got big points with SEIU leaders for being the first major candidate in the Democratic field to come up with a comprehensive health care reform plan that would reach universal coverage. [...]

At least, the Republican National Committee doesn’t think so. The RNC blast-emailed a solicitation to party members across the country a little while ago in the form of a letter from the incumbent president and nominal head of the party. “In just over 13 months, Americans go to the polls to elect the next President,” [...]

A worthy and particularly medium-appropriate blogger challenge from the folks at Pollster.com: The Disclosure Project. Starting today we will begin to formally request answers to a limited but fundamental set of methodological questions for every public poll asking about the primary election released in, for now, a limited set of states: Iowa, New Hampshire, South [...]

I’m gonna beat our commenters to the punch on this one: That Brooks column got Glenn Greenwald’s underpants in a particularly high and mighty twist.* Of course, Brooks’ entire column is factually false. That’s why he does not cite any polling data, because it shows the exact opposite of everything he says. Most Americans want [...]

David Brooks takes after the Netroots in his column today in the New York Times, arguing that Hillary Clinton’s commanding position in the primary proves that the internet-driven hordes on the left are not nearly so influential in the Democratic Party as we all thought. Clintonism and the DLC still hold sway over the party, [...]

Forget Oprah: He’s gonna be on Tyra Banks Show. I did not think it was possible to combine these particular threads of the cultural tapestry, but I am sure it will be a beautiful thing to behold. I hope she counsels him a la ANTM: “Barak, baby, you know, you can back the booty up [...]