The strains of The Clash’s iconic song, Should I Stay or Should I Go, are all but reverberating through the marble halls of Congress these days as speculation of what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi might do after the elections runs rampant. In this week’s dead tree edition I look at her options, win or lose. [...]
Politico spotlights a good angle to the subject of my new print piece this week: the huge Republican money steamroller poised to flatten Democrats from coast to coast in the midterms. If you read my story you’ll see that Karl Rove is a central player in this effort, particularly through the anodyne sounding group American [...]
Kansas City, Missouri Traveling Companions: Harper Barnes, Katy Steinmetz Events: Robin Carnahan veterans roundtable; Time Kansas City barbecue Robin Carnahan, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate from Missouri, is attempting a three-cushion bank shot: Her opponent is long-time Republican Congressman Roy Blunt, a respected and central figure in the Establishment wing of the Republican party…and [...]
Obama will NOT nominate Elizabeth Warren to be the interim director of the powerful Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) tomorrow. What he will do is name her Assistant to the President and Special Advisor to the Secretary of the Treasury on CFPB, administration sources say. Tangled politics, both within the executive branch and between the [...]
One political dynamic that’s emerging this election season is the strength of the right and the weakness of the left. While the Tea Party appears, in many ways, to be steering the ship of the Republican Party, on the other end of the spectrum, progressives may feel like their banging their heads against the wall. [...]
Amid all the talk of the Delaware Tea Party darling’s background promoting a philosophy of abstinence so strict that it excludes what Woody Allen once called “sex with someone I love” I wondered about the state of the abstinence movement in the U.S. nowadays. It seems like something one heard of in O’Donnell’s promotional heyday [...]
At the end of her victory speech Tuesday night, Christine O’Donnell quoted Thomas Jefferson. “When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” (See here at 12:11) You can buy that quote online on everything from bumper stickers to refrigerator magnets to hooded sweatshirts, often with [...]
