In the new issue of dead-tree TIME, my Washington Bureau colleague Amanda Ripley takes an in-depth look at GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani’s chief selling point in his 2008 campaign for the White House, and finds that it isn’t entirely what it’s advertised to be. She writes in part: This much is indisputable: Giuliani knows what [...]
Should the networks and interest groups that have been sponsoring the seemingly endless series of debates and candidate forums start limiting their invitations to those contenders who seem, by whatever definition, “viable”? Having so many candidates onstage fighting for air time does make it harder to come up with any format that goes beyond gotcha [...]
After all these months of rejecting comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq, President Bush now embraces them: “Three decades later, there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the Vietnam War and how we left,” Mr. Bush said. “Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of [...]
Close observers of this space may have noticed that we’re a little short-handed in the Swamp this week. And judging from some of the comments that have been getting past the content filter, the High Sheriffs are all passed-out drunk again. So with no one to stop me, I have hired Assistant Managing Editor and [...]
As frequent Swampland commenter Cfaller96 loves to remind me, I predicted here that the August congressional recess would be a difficult time for Republicans, because they would be returning to their districts to face voters who were furious over the Iraq war. But if this morning’s Washington Post is right, the exact opposite has happened: [...]
Today must be Pile-on-New-York (and, by extension, its former Mayor) Day for Republican presidential contenders. After Mitt Romney takes after New York City (and, by extension, its former Mayor) on immigration, Fred Thompson blogs about the city’s (and, by extension, its former Mayor’s) affinity for gun control: Anybody who knows me knows I’ve always cared [...]
After more than three months in unexplained detention, Haleh Esfandiari, the 67-year-old director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, has been released from Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.
When I was traveling with Rudy Giuliani a couple of weeks ago, I asked him what he thought of Mitt Romney’s increasingly frequent digs at “sanctuary cities.” He professed to be mystified, even a little flattered: “New York city is the safest large city in America. … So it must be doing a pretty good [...]
Ana is off this week, but Fred Thompson manages to produce a Daily Jumble all by himself. Spokeswoman Burson Snyder becomes the latest staffer to quit before the campaign has even begun, reports Jonathan Martin in Politico. Blogger Lane Hudson, of Mark Foley scandal fame, has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission about [...]
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin, whose advocacy of limiting the U.S. mission has represented the center of the Senate’s thinking on Iraq, says the surge is showing “positive results.” Levin and ranking Republican John Warner say they are most impressed–and surprised–to hear U.S. commanders praise the progress that Iraqi forces are making in [...]
