From our White House Photo Blog: Their caption: Fire Sale George W. Bush face masks are reduced to make way for new stock of Barack Obama masks at a store in London. Surely our Swampland commenters can do better than that.
The good people at Time.com have collected the Top Ten. The Misty May backside slap. The golf challenge to the terrorists. The soft shuffle before meeting with McCain. It’s all there. My favorite is this one.
Later today, Dana Perino will give her 145th* press briefing, ending a long tour in the hard duty as the chief public face for a man named George W. Bush. She is looking enthusiastically to the future, with plans for a six week trip around the world with her husband, which will include a stop [...]
The metaphor came from our TV screens. On the day that George W. Bush gave his farewell address, the image that got the nation’s attention was one of relieved survivors scrambling out of a jet that was sinking into icy water. The gauzy speech itself was filled with spectacular euphemisms for the state in which [...]
It was only this morning that the newspapers and cable news networks were erupting–and the conservative bloggers smarming oodles of schadenfreude–over Barack Obama’s impending first legislative defeat. TARP funds–the big bank bailout–would never pass the Senate. He’d have to begin his presidency with a veto. Oh dear. But, uh, TARP passed this afternoon. And Geithner [...]
As described on the Senate floor by Orrin Hatch.
Ezra Klein, as usual, has some smart thoughts about what fiscal responsibility really means–hint: it isn’t about this year or next year’s deficit, it’s about long term structural responsibility. Meanwhile, Karl Rove, as usual, has some utterly predictable and utterly political thoughts about the same topic in the Wall Street Journal. He begins with an [...]
It seems to me that, at this point, there is only one course here that makes sense: Governor Paterson should appoint a well-respected figure who would agree not to run in 2010. (Judith Kaye, maybe?) With a caretaker in place for the next two years, the other contenders could compete for the job the old-fashioned [...]
The Page notes that Caroline Kennedy’s public approval in New York state is slipping, while Andrew Cuomo, once an in-law of the Kennedy clan, is gaining ground. This seems like bad news for Camelot fans, given that Kennedy is campaigning as the inevitable successor for Hillary Clinton’s senate job. (The whole “inevitable” thing didn’t work [...]
The Washington Post’s piece about the Congressional struggle to approve the rest of the $350B bank bailout bill has this revelatory nugget: “The Republican base hates this. So a lot of people are saying why anger the base in the name of good policy when it’s going to happen anyway?” said Sen. Robert F. Bennett [...]
