This piece is all the rage in the mainstream and liberal journo worlds this afternoon. It certainly give an, ummm, interesting perspective on the Clinton oppo operation.

The story of her apparent* suicide is dominating the cable channels — predictably, given the salaciousness of the entire saga. But our colleague Adam Zagorin, in his sad story on TIME.com that reveals she had talked of ending her life, also raises an important question that the feds have never answered adequately: Why were they [...]

Hurray for Nancy Pelosi! She opposes the summer gas tax holiday, which means it probably won’t happen. (At least, I hope she has the votes to stop it.) The tax holiday is the worst sort of empty political posturing for these reasons: 1. Gasoline prices probably won’t fall. It’s doubtful that the oil companies will [...]

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McCain policy guru Holtz-Eakin does not dispute James Kvall’s math, but says that projecting that health care spending will continue to grow as fast as it has in recent years fails to take into account the measures that McCain proposes to rein in medical costs: If the question is whether the tax credit is indexed [...]

On the Clinton press conference call this morning, comm director Howard Wolfson was asked to defend Clinton’s roundly-criticized/derided/debunked “gas tax holiday” proposal. I haven’t gotten the recording yet, so I’ll be back with the exact quote later, but his answer was along these lines: “Presidents sometimes do what experts say and sometimes they don’t,” and [...]

The blog Facing South has been following the controversy surrounding robo-calls made in North Carolina by the group “Women’s Voice, Women Vote.” You can listen to the call here. Again, the Clinton conspiracists have plenty of grist for their respective mills: The calls instructed listeners to wait for a “voter registration packet” and to sign [...]

More math from my email inbox. (Commenter Jay Ackroyd loves this stuff.) This installment comes from James Kvall, of the Center for American Progress: Holtz-Eakin’s basic math is correct but it begs a basic question: if a typical worker gets an $800 tax cut, how can the whole policy be revenue-neutral? I think the answer [...]

Mark “The Minimalist” Bittman has a lovely, straightforward (if opinionated) approach to food, so I suppose it makes sense that he’d a have similar approach to the politics of food. With the chattering class — and the Washington Post — focused on how expensive food is getting, he has a bracing blog post up today [...]