The topic of the day on all the cable nets seems to be House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s emotional plea for calm during her regular weekly briefing yesterday.
Much mayhem at the Al Quds day festivities in Iran yesterday. The former reform President Mohammed Khatami was attacked by thugs, apparently. The former establishmentarian President Ali Akhbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who endorsed Mousavi in the last election, was denied his traditional position as the Quds Day speaker at Friday prayers. The current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [...]
I talked to Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus last night after what sounded like a pretty stormy meeting with his fellow committee Democrats last night. Baucus is still sounding confident about the prospects for his bill, but also suggests he is open to some significant changes in it, particularly on the question of making insurance [...]
Is it possible to be America’s Most Embarrassing Mayor even after stepping down from office? Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is making a valiant bid to retain the title. As part of his plea bargain on obstruction of justice charges stemming from a text message scandal last year, Kilpatrick agreed to pay $1 million to [...]
My story out today focuses on five things but I think there are actually six – I just ran out of space. Plus, for some odd reason, readers don’t like listy pieces over five bullet points, I’m told. Actually, there are probably hundreds or thousands of things that lawmakers could find to loathe in this [...]
The Obama Administration is about to announce that it is scrapping plans for anti-missile defense facilities in Poland and Czechoslovakia. This is likely to enrage the already apoplectic neoconservatives, who see the system not merely as an anti-Iranian measure, which is its stated intent, but as another means to put pressure on Russia. Despite what [...]
Not just for the trouble he is causing the White House. Not just for the odd “czar” investigations he has launched on Capital Hill. Not just for the dramatic political attack he has choreographed against ACORN. And not just because of his considerable talent. As David Von Drehle argues in the piece, Beck is a [...]
