From today’s White House briefing. Q: Is it ever reasonable to restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism? MS. PERINO: In our opinion, no. She also came out against invading other countries without a plan for what’s next, putting cronies in charge federal agencies, torture, Medicare part D, treating gay people as second [...]
Hillary released a hefty energy policy today, chock full of progressive environmental ideas…that may sound familiar to Barack Obama and John Edwards (as well as Bill Richardson and Al Gore — who she credited). Hillary’s become the last of the front-runners to endorse an 80% reduction in greenhouse gasses by 2050, and she’s pounced upon [...]
A commenter mentioned in passing the news over at Citigroup: the ouster of CEO Chuck Prince and its general Titanic-ing. It’s not strictly “politics in the nation’s capital,” but since subprime mortgages and foreign ownership of key American assets (Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is the largest individual investor in Citigroup and was until recently [...]
There was a surprisingly powerful reaction to my Sunday morning post about foreign service officers’ duty or lackthereof. I especially appreciated the long comment made by the gentleman who says he is a retired FSO himself, who points out that the State Department regularly loses people to violence in foreign countries; their sacrifice is, of [...]
Karen and I both attended a lunch in DC today held by mega-firm DLA Piper that featured two of its name hires — former House majority leaders Dick Armey and Dick Gephart — on a panel moderated by Charlie Cook to discuss election 2008. Armey and Gephardt are unique (you might say admirable) in the [...]
The Edwards campaign contacted me to point out that the video clip that circulated yesterday showing Edwards answering the “licenses for illegals” question left out the very end of the exchange. The video ends with this: EDWARDS: I heard her say two different things. I don’t know what she’s calling for. I mean she said [...]
From our White House Photo Blog, this photo by Christopher Morris of President Bush’s arrival last week in Philadelphia:
The Edwards campaign has posted a cutesy “correction” to their “politics of parsing” video. We did find one Yes or No question Senator Clinton has answered: Will you continue to take money from Washington lobbyists? The video is from the candidate roundtable at Yearly Kos. I remember thinking that it would make a great ad… [...]
The various bias-hunters on both sides the blogosphere are generally useful, if a tad alarmist. If nothing else, they’re like an early-warning system for fake outrage (or: tomorrow’s Howie Kurtz column, today!). One thing I’ll give Media Matters over NewsBusters, though: MM has never taken their earnest and literal approach to detecting political intent in [...]
