How it looked from my spot on the ground. For what it’s worth, CBS News estimates the event drew 215,000 people. I have no idea if that’s accurate, but it was a huge, happy crowd.
Jim Poniewozik’s take on yesterday’s Stewart/Colbert rally on the National Mall.
Here’s Jay explaining how the Democratic leadership in the House is likely to look very different in 2011.
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has been making a show out of resisting implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the funding for states contained within. He’s not the only one, but his resistance has been noteworthy, in part, because of his presumed ambition to be the GOP nominee for president in 2012. If he does [...]
As we head into Tuesday’s vote, it feels like the cake has been baked. Although stunning results are always possible in politics, the real suspense isn’t about Congress. Why? Because even if Democrats maintain control of the House and Senate they’ll almost certainly lose their ability to pass any kind of substantive agenda. Nor is [...]
When Speakers retire — and this is pure speculation, Nate Silver this morning still gave Dems a 20% chance of keeping the House — but, historically speaking, when speakers retire they tend to drop off the map (Denny Hastert, Jim Wright), hover in political circles (Newt Gingrich), write a book (Tip O’Neill), or lark off [...]
The BBC–hat tip Laura Rozen–is reporting that the Iranians have agreed to resume negotiations about their nuclear program next month. This follows the Iranian appearance, and expressed desire to cooperate, at a meeting of Afghanistan’s neighbors in Rome last week (indeed, the Iranians–who played a positive role in the contact group effort to stabilize Afghanistan [...]
Oh, the insanity—of the Rally to Restore Sanity. Since Jon Stewart announced this meeting of measured minds last month on his fake-ish newscast, The Daily Show, more than 200,000 people have professed via Facebook that they will attend. Arianna Huffington has offered to bus as many New Yorkers as want to go to the three-hour [...]
I’m a great admirer of David Brooks’s relentless civility and intelligence, even when I disagree with him. So I was a bit surprised to see him expressing this sentiment about the President in today’s column: Obama came to be defined by his emergency responses to the fiscal crisis — by the things he had to [...]
