Of course, they don’t technically oppose repeal either, according to a letter the USCCB sent members of the House yesterday. But the letter–signed by the chairs of the USCCB’s committees on pro-life activities, domestic justice, and migration–did lay out three criteria that the bishops require in order to support health care legislation: Ensure access to [...]
I have mixed feelings about the departure of Senator Joe Lieberman from public life. I’ve had fierce disagreements with him in recent years, especially in the area of foreign policy–especially in the middle east, where he is an ardent Likudnik. He has taken positions that are more reflective of what he believes to be Israel’s [...]
John Dominis / Time Life Pictures / Getty Images Robert Sargent Shriver Jr., liberal titan and in-law to the political stars, died Tuesday at 95. Our colleague David Von Drehle writes his obituary: Hardly a starry-eyed program was launched in the 1960s without Shriver’s imprint. He took John F. Kennedy’s campaign promise of a volunteer [...]
Senator Joe Lieberman, who is up for re-election next year, has announced he won’t seek another term. On the one hand it’s a surprise: The more Lieberman became a bete noire for liberals with his post-9/11 rightward lurch on national security, the more he seemed to relish fighting back without apology. But ultimately the numbers [...]
The anonymous novel about the President–O–will be hitting the stores in the next few weeks. Quite naturally, because of Primary Colors, I’ve been asked if I’m the author. I’ve even been asked, as Brother Scherer notes below, to express solidarity with the author. Here’s what I’ve said: I didn’t write the book, but that’s what [...]
In the heat and light of Tucson last week, Pete Wehner–the once and current and future Bush the Younger hatcheteer–expressed some regrets for the tone of his rants against various people (including me). But a scorpion does as a scorpion does–and yesterday he was back in full rant mode, continuing his deathless crusade against that terrible enemy [...]
Let us all praise the publicists at Simon & Schuster. Not only have they acquired a fictional manuscript about Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign by someone “who has been in the room with Barack Obama and knows the political world intimately.” They also plan to publish it anonymously, which will add to the excitement, since the [...]
A few senators are continuing to brave the gun debate in wake of the Tucson shooting. But as they express support for various gun control measures, they also concede that the current political climate gives them little hope those measures will ever be implemented. New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, suggested Sunday that the [...]
So what did we learn from Sarah Palin’s powwow with Sean Hannity, her first interview since the Tucson tragedy? She won’t sit down. She won’t shut up. She’s not sorry about using the historically loaded phrase “blood libel.” She’s still staying mum on a potential bid for higher office. The kerfuffle over her political target [...]
