During the George W. Bush years, House Democrats went on a tear about the tendency of Karl Rove’s White House political shop to dispatch federal government employees to appear in the districts of vulnerable Republican members of Congress. Rep. Henry Waxman, then chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee bemoaned what he called [...]
I have a story online today (and in the print edition, where it looks prettier!) about what’s behind Obama’s showdown with the Chamber of Commerce. Most Swampland readers will know that the recent public fight between Obama and the Chamber–which is running $75 million in political ads this year, the vast majority of them supporting [...]
Christine O’Donnell cites a rationale for staying in Afghanistan which appears to be influencing both the policy and politics around the debate over that war. As O’Donnell put it in last night’s debate: A random withdrawal, that [Democratic nominee Chris Coons] has said he supports, will simply embolden the terrorists to come after us even [...]
Las Vegas Sun political guru Jon Ralston is taken aback by a press release from Republican Sharon Angle’s campaign bragging about her astounding $14 million third-quarter fundraising haul. From the Angle release: This is a testament to the hatred of Harry Reid, the nation’s disapproval of President Obama, and the unprecedented grass-roots support for Sharron [...]
This is the best story I have read all morning, by TIME’s Simon Shuster in Moscow. It involves a crushed chessplayer rebellion and a Kremlin puppet who believes Jesus Christ is an alien “and that Earth is set to collide with the planet Nebiru, killing us all, if mankind does not cleanse its ‘aura’ by [...]
Tonight, CNN broadcast nationally the first debate between Republican Christine O’Donnell and Democrat Chris Coons, the candidates for Joe Biden’s old Senate seat in Delaware – at least most of it. The network broke away 53 minutes into the 90-minute debate to air live the rescue of the last two Chilean miners that have been [...]
From the White House: On October 13, 2010, the President signed into law: H.R. 946, the “Plain Writing Act of 2010,” which requires Federal agencies to use plain writing in certain government documents that are issued to the public; But the question is: what constitutes plain writing? How many pages of standards and guidelines will [...]
Over on TIME’s healthy version of Swampland, I have a post up about the controversy over including contraception as a “preventive service” under the Affordable Care Act. Planned Parenthood says yes; the Catholic bishops say no. Kathleen Sebelius will make the final call.
