Much has been written and said about the Roger Ailes/News Corp/Rudy Giuliani connection, about how Fox News and all the News Corp properties are transparently working to secure Rudy both the GOP nomination and the White House. This post is not an effort to dispute those suspicions, or to contest the obvious prefence the Fox [...]
This SwampCast looks at what might happen should the surging Huckabee wind up in showdown with Rudy Giuliani. A note — I mention, in the cast, that Republican primary voters like Rudy because he’s “tough on terrorism.” I want to distinguish that from the notion that that Rudy actually has that much experience fighting terrorism, [...]
This just in (finally) from New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner. The decision to hold the first primary on January 8, which will be a mere five days after the Iowa caucuses, comes after Michigan (finally) settled on January 15.
From our White House Photo Blog:
Both Clinton and Obama have issued statements that they won’t cross the picket line to participate in CBS’s debate. Clinton: “The workers at CBS News have been without a contract for close to two and a half years. It is my hope that both sides will reach an agreement that results in a secure contract [...]
Fred Thompson: The Wes Clark Howard Dean of 2008? It’s true, one doubts that Fred could summon the energy needed to let out a “Dean Scream,” but he is borrowing one of the Deaniacs’ most notoriously failed strategies: letting outside supporters do the in-state outreach for you. And while I sort of love the image [...]
As former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee surges in Iowa (and threatens to make the race on the Republican side there actually look interesting), our friends over at Factcheck.org take a look at his Arkansas fiscal record and find: -Huckabee claimed that a speech in which he implored the state Legislature to raise taxes was in [...]
Let the games begin. As for FISA: 1. The bipartisan bill that was being negotiated by House Intelligence Committee members probably would have won a veto-proof majority, and would have included the most crucial civil liberties protections–the “minimization” (or blacking out) of communications from foreign terrorist targets to innocent U.S. civilians. It would also have [...]
The assault on Mount Hillary continues, abetted by her questionable decision yesterday to mock Obama’s foreign policy credentials. The fact is, Obama’s four childhood years in Indonesia are extremely valuable when it comes to understanding the rest of the world, especially those parts of the world that don’t like us. And as Maureen Dowd points [...]
