Great Moment in the Briefing Room

Q Dana, what’s your reaction to the Justice Department report where they — the report essentially says, yes, that there was inappropriate influence on politics and ideology that was part of our hiring and firing practices? MS. PERINO: Well as I have read the coverage of it — I haven’t read the report, but as [...]

In the Arena

More Neo-Nonsense

I could waste a lot of cyberspace dealing with the nonsense the neocons are spewing about me so, I’ll tuck most of the post below the fold–but Pete Wehner, who served as Karl Rove’s intellectual hatchet man in the White House, is back in action and his intellectual dishonesty is simply breath-taking.

Senate Constipation

I don’t know if Chuck Grassley’s been having digestion issues, but he rates my quote of the day. From the Senate floor this morning talking about how the Dems plan on doing a package of popular bi-partisan tax extenders outside of regular order: The Senate is constipated. This legislative body needs a function, a laxative. [...]

Obama Quote

Another post along these lines, alas: House Democratic leadership aides were horrified to see this messianic-sounding quote this morning in Dana Milbank’s piece in the Washington Post: Inside, according to a witness, he told the House members, “This is the moment . . . that the world is waiting for,” adding: “I have become a [...]

Why Obama Offers A Net Tax Cut

There remains some confusion over my Monday story about the fiscal plans of the two presidential candidates. At the top of the story, I quoted John McCain’s top policy adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin saying “I stand corrected” about his prior belief that Barack Obama would raise taxes over 10 years. The McCain campaign pushed back against [...]

UPDATE: Obama and the Troops

This front-page account in the Washington Post is absolutely consistent with what I know, based on my reporting, about Obama’s cancelled visit to Landstuhl. So how many more times are the McCain campaign and the Republicans going to repeat what is a thoroughly baseless charge?