My colleague Alex Altman has an entertaining review up today of Glenn Beck’s new “thriller,” The Overton Window. Despite getting panned in the Washington Post and Beck’s own acknowledgment that well, maybe he didn’t exactly write the entire thing, Alex notes that the novel will be a best seller anyway. The entire review is definitely [...]
Official White House Photo by Pete Souza (President Obama will speak in the Rose Garden shortly, once he wraps up the meeting with BP executives pictured above.)
Here’s a story from me about the bottleneck of bills accumulating in the Senate as more and more vulnerable Dems balk at additional spending. If getting through $50 billion in emergency aid to stave of furloughs of teachers, firefighters and police will be tough, it’s hard to imagine the Senate pushing through big ticket items [...]
Why Nancy Pelosi should be very, very worried.
From TIME’s energy and environment writer Bryan Walsh: Around 10:30 AM Eastern this morning, just as the five executives of the major global oil companies were settling in for what was set to be a brutal hearing from the House Energy and Commerce Committee, a fire broke out on BP’s Enterprise drilling ship, which is [...]
Not to turn Swampland into the Chronicle of Floridian Political Advertising, but always-colorful Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson’s opening re-election offering is just too good to pass up: The avalanche of red meat might seem a bit strange considering he represents a R+2 congressional district (by Charlie Cook’s Partisan Voting Index), but it’s really about excitement. [...]
Andrew Sullivan comes to the rescue of those of us who’ve been puzzling over the inchoate, and militantly uninformed, and non-prescriptive anger of the Tea Party movement by linking to an essay by New School professor J.M. Bernstein on the Hegelian roots of this anomie. It is a lovely piece of work, and I recommend [...]
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The Republicans seem intent on making the least of a promising electoral situation. They have given Harry Reid new life in Nevada by producing as their candidate a Tea-Party Scientology-sympathizer who wants to do away with Social Security and Medicare . Then there’s Rand Paul, who may win the Senate race in conservative Kentucky, but [...]
