Sarah Palin has faced something of a backlash from conservative circles for mocking Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign. First, the Washington Post noted last week that Palin’s comments were rebuked by Mike Huckabee (a potential 2012 primary rival, to be sure), and put her at odds with recent comments from the likes of Haley Barbour and [...]
If you missed it over the holiday break, Greg Jaffe’s Washington Post Dec. 27 dispatch from Afghanistan’s Pech Valley makes for riveting, horrifying and ultimately depressing reading. It’s a story about young Americans fighting, and dying, with little faith in their commanders and scant belief that their mission makes any sense. Here’s a grueling excerpt: [...]
Greg Sargent catches Bill Kristol in his first moment of transcendent xenophobic dopiness of the new year.
Les Gelb, who was Richard Holbrooke’s closest friend, has a lovely and stunning memorial today in The Daily Beast, which includes one very significant piece of news: From the outset, Holbrooke was hamstrung. He knew that Americans and Afghans both had no chance unless the government in Kabul shaped up. President George W. Bush let [...]
(REUTERS/Gary Hershorn) Happy new year! –Politico surveys RNC members and finds a majority opposed to Michael Steele remaining at the helm. Gentry Collins, who made quite a splash with his very public resignation from the RNC, has dropped his chairmanship bid. It never really got off the ground and Reince Priebus still looks to be [...]
This morning, on ABC’s This Week, White House economist Austan Goolsbee, who won a national intercollegiate debate championship as a Yale student in 1991, offered an opening statement in the coming Congressional debate over a raising of the debt ceiling this spring. Republicans plan to use the necessary move–to keep the U.S. government from default–as [...]
