The memo went out last night to reporters covering the McCain campaign that, starting Sunday, he too will be allowing a protective pool to cover him, similar to the arrangement the Obama campaign made some weeks back. It’s a good idea–indeed, necessary. But get ready to learn a lot more about what he wears when [...]
A few months ago, I wrote that John McCain was an honorable man and he would run an honorable campaign. I was wrong. I used to think, as David Ignatius does, that McCain’s true voice was humble and moderate, but now I’m beginning to think his Senate colleagues may be right about his temperament. From [...]
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 [...]
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.
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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?
The story of Obama’s cancelled visit to the wounded troops at Landstuhl has had many twists and turns. But since last week, the Republicans have been citing a blogpost by Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet as evidence that the Obama campaign was (falsely) accusing the Pentagon of refusing the candidate access to the troops. It [...]
