Paul Krugman and Arianna Huffington v. Roger Ailes

Fox News creator Roger Ailes, the patron saint of red blooded conservative victim hood, made a rare appearance in front of the camera Sunday, on ABC’s This Week, where he introduced himself by offering to pose nude for $100 (if it was still 1982 and he was Scott Brown), went on to defend Glenn Beck [...]

In the Arena

Miranda Wrongs

In the Washington Post today, former CIA director Mike Hayden has a column lamenting the fact that the Undiebomber was read his Miranda rights after only 50 minutes of negotiation. He is absolutely right: the bomber is an enemy combatant. He doesn’t have Miranda rights. It is entirely possible that we lost valuable intelligence as [...]

President “Play-By-Play” Obama Works The Georgetown v. Duke Game

Said Obama to CBS’ broadcaster Clark Kellogg, “After retirement, I’m coming after your job. . . . You either have three more years or seven.”

Congress: Go Ahead And Hate Them. They Are Getting Stuff Done

Norm Ornstein writes today in the Washington Post about the paradox of this extraordinarily unpopular Congress: …even with the wrench thrown in by Republican Scott Brown’s election in Massachusetts, this Democratic Congress is on a path to become one of the most productive since the Great Society 89th Congress in 1965-66, and Obama already has [...]

Creepiest Campaign Ad Evah…

may well be in the race for New Orleans coroner…

Hank Paulson Takes Your Questions

Every want to ask the former Treasury secretary what he actually said to Nancy Pelosi when he got down on his knees in front of her at the White House days before TARP passed? Or find out why he let Lehman fail while bailing out Bear Sterns and AIG? And how much did he really [...]

Meanwhile, at the Georgetown-Duke Game…

President Obama and Vice President Biden are courtside today. I hope they caught this only-in-DC scene, which comes to us via the Twitterfeed of CNN’s Sam Feist: From the latest White House Pool Report, here are some details of what the scene is like:

1,000 Words: Sidewalk Edition

From our White House Photo Blog:

Doris Kearns Goodwin: “Let Them Filibuster.”

It’s been quite a week for my Make Them Filibuster campaign. Two high-profile endorsements! First, Governor Ed Rendell and now historian Doris Kearns Goodwin. Here’s what she told Jon Stewart last night on the Daily Show: Let them filibuster. You realize how great they’re going to look, these Republicans, trying not to go to the [...]

Re re: Great Political Television

Dear Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner: More of these, please.