Behind the Music: Hillary Clinton

An ad for young people or an old person’s idea of an ad for young people? I’m reminded of that Mr. Show sketch where the parents put on board shorts and Vans and toss around a beach ball impersonating teens in a show called something like, “Just Rappin!” They say things like, “I’m going to [...]

Washington State: Winning Ugly

I love what passes for arithmetic in the disputed GOP caucuses there: Esser said their last county report on Saturday came shortly before 10:15 p.m., at which point they had 87.2 percent of precincts reporting. That’s when they did an analysis, saying: “Let’s take every county where Huckabee is beating McCain, and double the margin [...]

Tacky

And you thought the Shuster-Chelsea business was sexist:

Rove’s Awesome Election Analysis

Rove was on Face the Nation yesterday, expressing confidence that John McCain would have no trouble uniting the Republican party in time to defeat the Democratic nominee in the fall. The intraparty squabbling, said Rove, was a hiccup; in 2000, “a month after Sen. McCain withdrew from the contest… Gov. Bush was still getting two-thirds, [...]

Tom Lantos

Word comes this morning of the death of a congressman who never tired of the fight for human rights around the globe–a struggle that was rooted in his own remarkable life story. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos, 80, was the only holocaust survivor ever to serve in Congress. As a teenager, Lantos fought [...]