Jay Newton-Small sends this dispatch: “What happens when two presidential nominees, all the top congressional leaders and the president sit down in the Oval Office? Crazy security. They’ve closed Pennsylvania Ave. to pedestrian traffic and we’re now being treated to the spectacle of multiple motorcades – motorcycles revving and sirens blaring – arriving at the [...]

In tonight’s installment of the Palin/Couric interview, the Governor explains how she’s been protecting us from The Bear: Watch CBS Videos Online COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians? PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We– we do– it’s very important when you consider even national [...]

This press release just arrived in my emailbox. (And let the record show, Joel Stein thought of this first.): Jewsvote.org launches “The Great Schlep” – a national effort to mobilize young Jews to persuade their grandparents to vote for Barack Obama; Actress and Comic Sarah Silverman releases video to promote effort NEW YORK – The [...]

I guess the consensus is that McCain is making a not very smart bet with this $700B move. I’ll just note that, whatever else it is, his decision to “suspend” his campaign and rush to the sort of rescue is a genuine reflection of McCain’s temperament and as good an indicator as any of what [...]

Sarah Palin took questions from her press pool for the first time today. She was asked five questions, and answered 3.5. When asked if she supports the reelection of Rep. Don Young and Sen. Ted Stevens, two Republicans from Alaska under ethics clouds, she said, “Ted Stevens trial started a couple days ago. We’ll see [...]

Yet another embarrassing episode (see here, here and here) for Denver police: According to the local CBS affiliate, the local police union, the Denver Police Protective Association, is selling a bit of Democratic National Convention memorabilia–a t-shirt that shows a police officer with a baton, and the words “WE GET UP EARLY, to BEAT the [...]

This on ABC’s “Good Morning America”: “We know he didn’t do it because he’s afraid because Sen. McCain wanted more debates,” Clinton said, adding that he was “encouraged” by the joint statement from McCain and Sen. Barack Obama. “You can put it off a few days the problem is it’s hard to reschedule those things,” [...]

John McCain faced another crisis yesterday–a political one, not the financial emergency he used as an excuse for his rash actions–and once again he overreacted. This is becoming a pattern (as is his “greatest crisis since…” formulation: yesterday, since World War II; previously–on Georgia–since the end of the cold war), and it is not very [...]

John Dickerson, a former colleague and reporting partner, has a great piece over at Slate on McCain’s gambit.