There’s still a year to go before the Iowa caucuses, but this weekend, I’ll be chasing presidential candidates from Waterloo to Des Moines to Cedar Rapids to Davenport. Thank you, God, for Mapquest, but it would be terrific if Hertz in Waterloo offered GPS. Such an early and fast start to the campaign is not necessarily a good thing. …
Yesterday’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee vote–in which only one Republican, Chuck Hagel, voted in favor of a nonbinding resolution denouncing President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Iraq–has Democratic leaders rethinking their strategy for bringing the resolution to the floor. If the Foreign Relations vote is any sign of …
There’s a personal story about the two on that score: Webb despised Kerry for his anti-war activities after Vietnam. It took the Iraq war to bring about an unlikely rapprochement. I ran into Webb during the height of the Swift Boat controversy in 2004, and asked him what he thought about it as a Vietnam vet himself. (At the time, it had …
If you aren’t in the mood to watch the State of the Union address tonight, here’s what the cable movie channels are offering:
ABC Family: Big Fat Liar
BET: Getting Played
Disney: The Country Bears
Lifetime: Devil’s Pond
AMC: Dances with Wolves
Showtime Too: Scream 2
One thing for sure, this race is going to be a far different one from what HRC might have anticipated even a few months ago. Here’s what I wrote on that score for Time.com.
It also strikes me that her disastrous foray into health care might not be the political liability it once was. These days, she talks about it almost apologetically, …
Here’s the link.
I’m a little new at this blogging business, and as a general principle, don’t think it’s a good idea to get baited. However, I’d like to clarify something:
The storm of comments on my initial post on the Senate ethics bill seem to have been generated by one on Atrios. The presumption of a lot of those comments seems to be that I was …
UPDATE: The ethics bill comes back from the dead in the Senate. The most important thing in this bill is the additional disclosure requirements that it puts on lobbyists and lawmakers, which will make it much harder for them to do favors for each other without anyone knowing about it.
Does this mean Congress will be squeaky clean from …
Two days ago, a Republican leadership aide in the Senate boasted to me that Republicans were going to “out-ethics” the Democrats in this week’s debate over a lobbying and ethics bill, by pushing reforms–including an amendment by South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint–that went well beyond what the Democrats were proposing. Instead, late …
What did Hillary Clinton mean at her news conference just now, when she said that she would vote for the non-binding resolution opposing the President’s surge/augmentation/escalation policy, but that Congress “will eventually have to move to tougher requirements on the Administration to get their attention”?
As most everyone else in the Senate agonizes over a non-binding resolution of opposition to President Bush’s planned increase in troops in Iraq, Senator Christopher Dodd introduces one that has real teeth. Dodd contends the authorization that Congress gave Bush in 2002 is no longer valid, and that if the President wants more troops, he …
Um, Ana, regarding your suggestion to the baby boom generation:
You can keep John Kerry.
He was born in 1943, which technically means he is not one of ours.
This just in:
OBAMA FORMS PRESIDENTIAL EXPLORATORY COMMITTEE
U.S. Senator Barack Obama today filed papers with the Federal Election Commission establishing the “Obama Exploratory Committee.” A formal announcement of his decision will occur on February 10th in Illinois.
What the professional political class will be watching:
One thing …
