Napa, California Traveling Companions: none Event: the lack of events An astute commenter noted that I passed through Nevada without a word about the Harry Reid-Sharron Angle Senate Race. There is a reason for that. This trip is about things I can actually see with my own eyes. For all intents and purposes, Sharron Angle [...]
My friend Jim Maceda of NBC news went back to the Pir Mohammed School in the town of Senjaray, in Kandahar Province, and found a war zone: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/39370285#39370285
–Dick Durbin sounds resigned to deal on the Bush tax cut extensions. Joe Lieberman sets the goal posts for Democrats’ negotiations. –Karen Tumulty illustrates the post-Citizens United era. –Woodward thinks Obama owns the Afghanistan strategy, inside his administration and out. –Precarious Mideast peace talks make it through the expiration of the Israeli settlement freeze. –Josh Rogin [...]
Napa, California Traveling Companion: none Event: the ipod returns Not one to quit easily–and totally bored by the commercial radio I’d been listening to (with the exception of the Eminem/Rihanna song, which is great)–I decided to give the ipod a bone marrow transplant. I let it run completely out of juice (didn’t have much choice, [...]
Fresno, California Traveling Companions: none Events: watching the news from Washington from a citizen’s-eye view. Three weeks on the road, weaned from my usual total immersion in newspapers and blogs and cable news, and I’m gleaning the latest from our Nation’s Capital as most citizens do, by osmosis–a news flash on the radio (or, more [...]
Henderson, Nevada Traveling Companions: None Event: Interview with GOP Congressional Candidate Joe Heck So far as I can tell after three weeks on the road, there is little or no support among the public for the war in Afghanistan. The most I can come up with is an occasional, half-hearted “We need to fight the [...]
Kate joins me for this week’s podcast to discuss what new provisions are kicking in, and how Democrats and Republicans are talking (or not talking) about it. Listen:
I interviewed Lisa Murkowski yesterday about her write in bid to keep her Senate seat. Honestly, before the interview I thought she had little chance of winning. But she’s pretty persuasive. I still think it’s a huge long shot but I wouldn’t totally write her off. Today, I went to watch Joe Miller campaign with [...]
When you’re suffering from lack of attention—be you a speed skater in full-body Lycra, a soldier in an unpopular war or a union leader in an uphill battle—there’s one man you definitely want coming to your aid: Stephen Colbert, the newsman-satirist of Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.” This was a lesson driven home today when [...]
I escaped D.C. yesterday to attend the rollout of House Republicans’ “Pledge to America,” a policy document that’s heavy on campaign rhetoric about Democrats’ profligacy but missing a blueprint for balancing the budget. I also have a piece up about a San Francisco program called Jobs Now, a stimulus-subsidized initiative that has provided work to [...]
