As I was saying, this has been a very good Democratic campaign.

Fred’s trying to muscle into the news cycle…. “Trying” maybe. To: Interested Members of the Media From: Karen Hanretty, Deputy Communications Director Date: 12/13/2007 Re: Fred Thompson Campaign Apologies In light of Mike Huckabee’s heartfelt apology to Mitt Romney for making reference to Romney’s religion in the New York Times Magazine, we at the Thompson [...]

Today’s Washington Post fronts a story about Democrats blaming each other for the lack of progress on their agenda. But as our commenters have so often pointed out, the real issue is tension between the House and the Senate–and specifically, the fact that Republicans in the Senate are using the filibuster in ways it has [...]

A few thoughts. First of all, it was almost nostalgic seeing them all on the same Iowa platform for the last time–even felt a twinge for the missing Kucinich–because this has been one of the better, more substantive Democratic fields I’ve covered. They have identified the most important issues–multilateralism overseas, comprehensive health insurance reform, global [...]

After distancing itself from his comments about Obama’s drug use, the Clinton campaign has decided to distance itself from him. Here’s a statement from Bill Shaheen that was just released by the campaign: “I would like to reiterate that I deeply regret my comments yesterday and say again that they were in no way authorized [...]

So there seems to be a consensus now in the press about the state and direction of the Democratic race, judging by the saturation level of stories telling us about Hillary Clinton’s dire straits. With the Democratic contenders debating for the last time before the Iowa caucuses as I write (I’m on a train, so [...]

Maybe we should re-think the CW that Hillary Clinton isn’t as inspiring as Barack Obama. How else to explain the recent rash of over zealous junior staffers? I do think it’s interesting that the post which prompted the sock-puppetry was one of those “policy” thingees people are always demanding.

For those of you that watch the SwampCast just to pick on my hair, a filler episode:

Did that happen? Apparently there’s a Halperin report card on it, so I guess so… There’s a Dem one this afternoon, the last one before the caucuses. (Yay!) Yesterday’s was bashed as boring, and as avoiding the most important headlines of the day (the NIE, Iraq). Today’s might be as well — but I’m told [...]