Taxpayers for Common Sense has unearthed a revealing memo that tells you a lot about how life looks from the bottom of the pecking order in Washington. The 2007 document apparently was put together by former interns in Rep. Don Young’s office. In addition to listing an “A Team” of lobbyists whose calls are to [...]
Barack Obama talks about having a “Team of Rivals” Cabinet and national security team.
A not-very-surprising response from McCain’s Jill Hazelbaker: “Today, Barack Obama has revealed himself to be just another typical politician who will do and say whatever is most expedient for Barack Obama. “The true test of a candidate for President is whether he will stand on principle and keep his word to the American people. Barack [...]
The floods in the Midwest seem to be covered mainly as weather porn, despite the enormous personal costs that have come with it. Forty thousand have been displaced in Iowa and other states — and the floods aren’t even over yet. For those keeping score, that’s about half a Katrina, in terms of people who [...]
The script from his video announcement this morning is after the jump.
A couple days back I ran an online story about McCain’s town hall campaign strategy. The idea was that Obama is great in front of big auditoriums, reading speeches off a teleprompter. McCain is not. But McCain is as energetic and engaging as any candidate I have seen this cycle if you take away the [...]
The number of people who think that drilling for oil in the Alaskan National Wildlife Refuge will help solve our immediate oil crisis (or even our long term one) is high enough that if they all stopped driving, we’d be fine. One of the helpful myths that keeps that idea alive irks me to distraction: [...]
Colleague James Poniewozik has an interesting telecentric take on Michelle Obama’s “View” debut this morning. I was pleased to find out that the Obama’s are “bacon people” and, you know what? If I had arms as toned as hers I’d stick to sleeveless, too.
• “[S]ome might argue that save for a few cosmetic details, the ‘candidates’ are essentially identical.” Ha ha, it’s funny because they’re talking about soda! [Slashfood] • The guy who said this: “Gay sex is ‘intuitively’ unnatural and can lead to ‘lacerations, perforations and deaths.’” Is not someone you’d really want overseeing the country’s health [...]
Last winter, one of the reporters assigned to cover McCain was, by training, largely an environmental writer. As with having someone from Iraq on board, or someone from a financial publication, her depth of knowledge in a specific subject allowed her to ask McCain questions — and to make points — we generalists didn’t have [...]
