About some interesting new developments in Iraq. For the Iraq obsessives out there, there’s yet another interesting piece from Fred Kaplan at Slate about the U.S. military’s increased use of air attacks. If Kaplan is saying that the air attacks are integral to the declining U.S. casualties, I’m not sure I agree with him. The [...]
Mike Huckabee has hit ten percent in a national poll, an accomplishment that a Corner correspondent puts in perspective: I mean, he’s spent less than $2 million, compared to Romney’s $52 million, and is only 2% behind him in the national poll, and only 7 % behind him in Iowa, according to Rasmussen. As if [...]
Via Pollster, Mark Mellman has piece in The Hill analyzing the myths of Iowa that don’t have to do with baseball fields and James Earl Jones, but it’s an ironically idealistic form of mythbusting: He argues that message counts as much as organization, and that passion matters as much (or more) than electability. Somewhere, John [...]
And Brian Kennedy, spokesman to GOP House Leader John Boehner, notes jubilantly: The cosmetic adjustments Democrats made to the SCHIP bill changed one GOP vote: Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-MI) switched from a YES on the last Dem bill to a NO today. Not quite the result the majority had intended. · Not a single Republican [...]
Just a bit of commentary about the news that both the Republican and the Democratic Iowa caucuses will be happening January 3 — the earliest caucus date ever.
Jay Newton-Small has this on one of the Capitol’s most irascible–and interesting–characters.
This is some terrific eyewitness reporting on U.S. relations with the Sadrists in the Shi’ite south of Iraq by Darrin Mortenson. I’ll have more about some surprising developments in Iraq later today in my print column.
There was this rather illuminating exchange in Iowa yesterday. First, a piece of advice to Mr. Giuliani: Next time you have a debate, sidle over to Senator McCain and ask him if waterboarding is torture or not. He’ll set you straight. Second, who does this remind you of: And I see, when the Democrats are [...]
Not endorsing the sentiments, but you just have admire the sheer brilliance of an ad that has Hillary Clinton supporting $1 million of pork-barrel funding to commemorate Woodstock–and thereby planting her firmly on one side of the cultural revolution–while John McCain was “tied up” as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Leave aside the fact [...]
This from the Wall Street Journal’s Jackie Calmes: Hillary Clinton’s campaign will close down Washington’s Union Station for all but the trains to hold a major fund-raiser there Dec. 6 — a month before the first and most-anticipated presidential-nominating vote in Iowa. The location is no accident, says a lobbyist who’s among the planners (though [...]
