Reports Politico: Reporters traveling with John McCain are slightly miffed that the senator hasn’t had any face time with them in, well, a month and three days (But who’s counting?) So, when Straight Talk Air departed Tampa today, a dozen reporters chanted, “Bring Mac back! Bring Mac back!” (Some reporters expressed concern that chanting at [...]
Linking to this blog post about politics and the paranoid mind proves that I am a _______ secretly working to elect _______ to the office of _______ so I can go to _______ with _______. Now what does it say about you?
As the presidential candidates debate how “fundamentally sound” our economy is, Scott Lilly points to a bigger problem that is getting buried under the mess on Wall Street: It is clear to any detached observer that the travails on Wall Street are not simply a superficial kink in the circulation of the nation’s money supply. [...]
(See update at the end of this post: Ben Smith finds the group behind the calls.) There are at least two reports, one today and one yesterday, of push polling, that despicable, below-the-radar campaign tactic that is more about spreading misinformation than collecting data. This effort seems to be aimed at Jewish voters. One person [...]
See, I think Tucker’s real problem — as my friend Megan says — is that he LIKES getting spanked by hot women…
The DNC is spamming this out this morning: Holtz-Eakin: McCain helped create BlackBerry Asked what work John McCain did as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate’s top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry. “He did this,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his [...]
There’s a lot to interest Palin skeptics in this piece at Salon, but this passage in particular caught my eye: No one has accused Todd Palin of interfering in state business for his own personal benefit — instead, the situation has remained somewhat inscrutable, if not odd. According to local politicos and observers, he lurks [...]
Here’s a very good column from Richard Cohen. Update: Sarah Palin loses a potential friend. A very good column from David Brooks. And furthermore: The New York Times editorial board no longer eschews the L-word. (or the M-word, for mentiras, en espanol). So the question for today: Are there actual limits to impropriety in politics, [...]
Goodbye, pigs, and take your lipstick with you. Wall Street’s roaring bear market is bringing the political debate back to the very serious things that confront the country. On the front page of the New York Times today, Jackie Calmes (late of the Wall Street Journal) does a good job of laying out the records [...]
