On the Air Force One flight from Phoenix to Washington, White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs made his first public comment about the recent revelations concerning Sen. Roland Burris. Here is a transcript of the exchange. QUESTION: You were asked a couple times yesterday about the President’s reaction to the revelations about Roland Burris. Have you [...]
The President’s decision send 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan is troubling on several grounds: 1. We don’t have a policy there yet. We don’t know what the goal is–or how we’re going to deal with the Pakistan part of the equation (which is where the more serious military issues lie), or the corruption of the [...]
was a battle he didn’t win. The NYT reports: WASHINGTON — Dick Cheney spent his final days as vice president making a furious last-ditch effort to secure a pardon for his onetime chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr., leaving him at odds with former President George W. Bush on a matter of personal loyalty [...]
Late Tuesday afternoon, the presidential entourage arrived at the Montelucia Resort and Spa, a sprawling luxury retreat on the outskirts of Phoenix. The motorcade alone stretched several city blocks, and after it had left, sheriff’s deputies and secret service agents stood lookout between the Mediterranean style villas. Other hotel guests hurried about with cameras trying [...]
Gloria Borger on why doing nothing is not an option. But you have to have the right message.
Roland Burris spins his tale a little further, admitting Monday for the first time that he tried to raise money for Gov. Rod Blagojevich after discussing a potential Senate appointment with his brother. Drip. Drip. Drip.
His remarks in Denver, upon signing the stimulus package, after the jump.
Here’s TIME’s 2009 list of the best–and the most overrated. (Sorry, Kos.) Which blogs are on your list?
I have long begged TIME’s resident fashionista Kate Betts to let me tag along with her to a Fashion Week show. Now comes this evidence that it is a legitimate political story! Kate says she spotted the new White House social secretary looking very glam at Carolina Herrera, Donna Karan, Thakoon and Marc Jacobs yesterday. [...]
This is terrible news. The Pakistani government has essentially given control of the Swat Valley to the Taliban. It means that the Taliban are now 100 miles from Islamabad and the military center of Rawalpindi. It also means that Pakistan’s Northwest Province is well on its way to becoming what Afghanistan used to be–a sanctuary [...]
