“A gaffe happens when someone slips up and tells the truth,” goes the old Washington saw. But there is a corollary: A scandal occurs when someone gets caught doing what everyone else is doing. Gambling in the casino!?! He had an affair?!? Ethics impropriety in the U.S. Congress!?! Clutch the pearls, call for an investigation, [...]
Let me get this straight: Our intrepid Aryn Baker’s “conflict-of-interest” in writing the cover story about the plight of women in Afghanistan is…that…she’s married to an Afghan who has done some work for the Karzai government? And that’s why she wrote this story that supposedly is pro-war? Oh please. And how is it allegedly pro-war? [...]
From the White House Flickr page.
Karl Rove has a Wall Street Journal op-ed today worth the attention even of Democrats who can’t stand him. You won’t be surprised to hear that Rove expects Democrats to get clobbered this fall. But he does highlight a point that Democrats should consider as they plot their midterm campaign message. Right now the Democrats’ [...]
Follow in the footsteps of Tom DeLay? (H/T Cillizza)
By one FDA scientist’s estimate, the diabetes drug Avandia may have “caused 47,000 more diabetics to suffer heart failure, stroke or death than would have been the case if they had taken an alternative.” Yet the FDA recently decided to keep the drug on the market. What’s going on? TIME’s Massimo Calabresi has a must-read [...]
Matt Miller, who writes about domestic policy matters with extreme smarts and clarity, analyzes the $26 billion bailout for the states that Congress passed this week. His bottom line: it’s absolutely necessary–but so is reform of the state Medicaid and pension systems, which we’re not likely to see anytime soon. Again, a Race to the [...]
