The Time.com political team has assembled a “gaffe database” for your amusement and edification, and input: you can rate the gaffes from 1 (harmless) to 13 (major screw-up). If something is “harmless,” though, is it a gaffe? Hm. Obama’s flag pin thing, by the way? Negative 2.
Jay Newton-Small reports via email from the “Defending the American Dream Summit” here in DC: Hillary was the punching bag of most of the GOP candidates at today’s conference. Giuliani slammed her 10 times by name, Brownback once, Huckabee once. Thompson – oddly- saved his fire for Bill Clinton reminiscing how formidable an opponent Billy [...]
Remember when HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson touched off a flap last year by telling a minority business organization that he had cancelled a federal contract because the prospective contractor didn’t like George Bush? As the Dallas Business Journal recounted, Jackson told the group: “He had made every effort to get a contract with HUD for [...]
Corrected in the post below, but the Politico’s Mike Allen has this from a GOP official, explaining the technicalities of stripping Craig of his committee assignments completely: “Taking his committee assignments, in absence of a felony, would require a vote by the Conference followed by Senate passage of a new committee organization resolution. So, no, [...]
Adam Zagorin, who has turned his superior investigative instinct onto subjects ranging from Jack Abramoff to Guantanamo Bay in recent years, delivers a must-read piece in this week’s print magazine on newly discovered irregularities in the investigation that put former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman in prison. Zagorin has as exclusive based on confidential FBI and [...]
It probably wasn’t the wisest thing for Barack Obama to say, and he’s backtracking now–but I can certainly understand why he was less than proud of our country’s behavior starting, say, in the fall of 2002. I mean, you had an administration that went to war arrogantly, stupidly and without good reason. You had an [...]
