This sort of story is rapidly becoming a genre unto itself: Mr. McCain’s once easy-going if irreverent campaign presence — endearing to crowds, though often the kind of undisciplined excursions that landed him in the gaffe doghouse — has been put out to pasture. He takes far fewer chances, meaning there are fewer risqué jokes, [...]

There was a McCain conference call earlier today about, topically enough, the economy. Responding to previously raised questions on how it is that the campaign can continue to claim that Obama will raise taxes, despite Obama’s vow that he would not, Doug Holtz-Eakin explained: “They have said so many things throughout the campaign. It is [...]

So, a few of my liberal friends have taken to reminding me every time I point out something vaguely sketchy about the Obama campaign (the 1982 ad, I think, was tacky, for instance) that “at least Obama never implied McCain is a pedophile. Game over.” I told this to some McCain people the other day, [...]

I’m, like, a total fanboy for the Constitution. I liked it before it signed to a major label. Turns out I have this in common with Chief Justice John Roberts, who gave this kind of adorable interview today to WP’s “Kid Post”: What do you think is the coolest part of the Constitution that people [...]

See, I think Tucker’s real problem — as my friend Megan says — is that he LIKES getting spanked by hot women…

The DNC is spamming this out this morning: Holtz-Eakin: McCain helped create BlackBerry Asked what work John McCain did as Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee that helped him understand the financial markets, the candidate’s top economic adviser wielded visual evidence: his BlackBerry. “He did this,” Douglas Holtz-Eakin told reporters this morning, holding up his [...]

There’s a lot to interest Palin skeptics in this piece at Salon, but this passage in particular caught my eye: No one has accused Todd Palin of interfering in state business for his own personal benefit — instead, the situation has remained somewhat inscrutable, if not odd. According to local politicos and observers, he lurks [...]

Our own esteemed Justin Fox has been adding his rapidly-decreasing-in-real-dollar terms two cents to the story of the day; his counter-intuitive take on the legislative hijinks that led up to the crisis caught my eye: Without Glass-Steagall repeal, Bank of America wouldn’t be able to buy Merrill Lynch, the only bit of arguably positive news [...]

What we lost.