Today’s SwampCast is an audio-only snippet of life on the Straight Talk Express. As I say in the introduction, replicating the experience would be too draining for all of us. And to those that bristle at my choice to call the “Straight Talk,” the “Straight Talk,” well, it’s not like political terms are ever very [...]
They’re at it again. Hillary Clinton has fired back at Barack Obama over his contention that living overseas as a child gave him foreign policy experience that is better than hers. In a speech today, Clinton jabbed: “Now voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to [...]
It seems like those anti-Mormon calls are getting the lion’s share of media attention (check this), but, meanwhile, Ben Smith has done some leg work on the mysterious Iowa polls that asked about Edwards not staying home with his ill wife: My source says the poll actually took two tracks, and included questions about all [...]
Poor Rachel Paulose. When she was appointed United States Attorney in Minnesota last year at the tender age of 33 — making her the youngest USA in the country, despite her modest experience as a prosecutor — it seems nobody told her that her political affiliations might have played a larger role in her appointment [...]
Wow. I hope the book is a little more direct as to who, precisely, did the misleading. McClellan’s sentences are oddly lacking in actors: “It” was not true, and top Administration officials were “involved.”
The news here is that Scott McClellan has apparently, as they say, “grown a pair”: “I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the seniormost aides in the White House: Karl Rove and [...]
Before Eric Schultz calls to yell at me, I should point out that the “innovation agenda” is another one of those things that John Edwards talked about before anyone else but doesn’t get much credit for it. I should also point out that, generationally, it resembles Clinton’s plan more than Obama’s: • Make R&D tax [...]
Out with McCain, we talked a lot about “the green gap” between Republicans and Democrats. As one of the few Republicans in the field who recognizes the existence of global warming, let alone have a plan for it, McCain is worried that Republicans are ceding the issue to Democrats as well as the votes of [...]
