Okay, I think I’m done with the Revolutionary War allusions, but for Dems Mass AG Martha Coakley’s close race is a real scare. And even scarier: that the DSCC has been forced to spend money on her (we’ll soon see how much). Precious money that could have been used to defend Harry Reid — as [...]
Kristen Gillibrand may not have been their first choice to fill Hillary Clinton’s New York Senate seat (ahem, Caroline Kennedy) but the White House is sticking by her after former five-term Tennessee Rep. Harold Ford told the New York Post exclusively (note the interesting choice of Gotham publications for a Democrat): It’s true: I am [...]
Last week I wrote about the impulse of federal department heads to cover their, um, backsides when something goes wrong. I also noted that this impulse often has poor results. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano tried to see the silver lining in the botched Christmas Day attack–saying that “the system worked”–only to put herself (and [...]
Yes, it’s true! God’s Gift to Political Reporters says he is thinking of running for office again.
Leave it to the Weekly Standard to make Barack Obama’s desire to see as many troops in Afghanistan as soon as possible into an attack on Stanley McChrystal. Here’s the actual story: Obama–he is the President, by the way–wanted the next “fighting season” in Afghanistan to be a true test of what’s possible in that [...]
National politics is a circus, a carnival, a battlefield, a 24-7-Drudge-Cable-Politico mudfest–and yet still, somehow, serious adults find a way to run the stuff. Think about the terribly boring suits in the Congressional leadership, on K Street or in the best White House offices. It has always been thus. Think too about the past chairmen [...]
If House Dems had their way, it would be. Democratic observers have taken delighted note of the increasing number – three in the last week – of former GOP members running for their old seats. “Not only did President Bush and Congressional Republicans create the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, but now a [...]
If you needed any more evidence that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is far less concerned with winning the White House than she is with making money and building a brand, the New York Times reports: Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska has signed on as a contributor to the Fox News Channel. The network [...]
After all the huffing and puffing by various Cheneys, assorted Republicans and cable news idiots, it turns out that the almost exactly the same number of Americans feel confident that the Obama Administration will be able to protect them from terrorism as did before the Undiebomber incident. This doesn’t mean that Al Qaeda sponsored terrorism [...]
From Eliot Cohen, a former deputy to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and an early cheerleader and later a critic of the Iraq invasion, in today’s Wall Street Journal: In at least one way, Mr. Obama resembles his predecessor: He has enormous self-confidence. But where George W. Bush’s certainty stemmed from moral conviction, Mr. Obama’s [...]
