Pete Wehner, like many over at the Commentary blog, suffer from Obama Failure Tourette’s Syndrome…every few hours, like clockwork, they jump up and shout, “He’s Failing! It’s falling apart! He’s cratering!”
Well, this is becoming quite the year for obituaries. Jody Powell was one of the first political pros I met when I began covering my first presidential campaign for Rolling Stone in 1975. We were introduced by Hunter Thompson–who was, untypically, seduced by the fact that Jimmy Carter’s top two aides were people…sorta like us. [...]
Here’s a fascinating and revealing anecdote from a soon-to-be-released memoir by former Bush speechwriter Matt Latimer, as reported in a Byron York column today. Latimer had drafted a 2008 speech for Bush to deliver at CPAC and included the obligatory praise for the “conservative movement,” which seemed to confuse Bush: “What is this movement you [...]
Lois Romano has this story today in the Washington Post on the book that is due out tomorrow. She describes a couple of powerful moments during the writing of it that give us a window into what it was like for Kennedy to be looking at the end of a remarkable life and trying to [...]
