Fred Thompson: The Wes Clark Howard Dean of 2008?
It’s true, one doubts that Fred could summon the energy needed to let out a “Dean Scream,” but he is borrowing one of the Deaniacs’ most notoriously failed strategies: letting outside supporters do the in-state outreach for you. And while I sort of love the image of Fredheads descending …
As former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee surges in Iowa (and threatens to make the race on the Republican side there actually look interesting), our friends over at Factcheck.org take a look at his Arkansas fiscal record and find:
-Huckabee claimed that a speech in which he implored the state Legislature to raise taxes was in response
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Let the games begin.
As for FISA:
1. The bipartisan bill that was being negotiated by House Intelligence Committee members probably would have won a veto-proof majority, and would have included the most crucial civil liberties protections–the “minimization” (or blacking out) of communications from foreign terrorist targets to innocent …
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The assault on Mount Hillary continues, abetted by her questionable decision yesterday to mock Obama’s foreign policy credentials. The fact is, Obama’s four childhood years in Indonesia are extremely valuable when it comes to understanding the rest of the world, especially those parts of the world that don’t like us. And as Maureen Dowd …
Today’s SwampCast is an audio-only snippet of life on the Straight Talk Express. As I say in the introduction, replicating the experience would be too draining for all of us.
And to those that bristle at my choice to call the “Straight Talk,” the “Straight Talk,” well, it’s not like political terms are ever very representative. We …
They’re at it again.
Hillary Clinton has fired back at Barack Obama over his contention that living overseas as a child gave him foreign policy experience that is better than hers. In a speech today, Clinton jabbed:
“Now voters will judge whether living in a foreign country at the age of 10 prepares one to face the big, complex
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It seems like those anti-Mormon calls are getting the lion’s share of media attention (check this), but, meanwhile, Ben Smith has done some leg work on the mysterious Iowa polls that asked about Edwards not staying home with his ill wife:
My source says the poll actually took two tracks, and included questions about all three leading
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Poor Rachel Paulose. When she was appointed United States Attorney in Minnesota last year at the tender age of 33 — making her the youngest USA in the country, despite her modest experience as a prosecutor — it seems nobody told her that her political affiliations might have played a larger role in her appointment than her actual …
Wow. I hope the book is a little more direct as to who, precisely, did the misleading. McClellan’s sentences are oddly lacking in actors: “It” was not true, and top Administration officials were “involved.”
The news here is that Scott McClellan has apparently, as they say, “grown a pair”:
“I stood at the White house briefing room podium in front of the glare of the klieg lights for the better part of two weeks and publicly exonerated two of the seniormost aides in the White House: Karl Rove and Scooter Libby,” McClellan
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Before Eric Schultz calls to yell at me, I should point out that the “innovation agenda” is another one of those things that John Edwards talked about before anyone else but doesn’t get much credit for it. I should also point out that, generationally, it resembles Clinton’s plan more than Obama’s:
• Make R&D tax credit permanent, …
Out with McCain, we talked a lot about “the green gap” between Republicans and Democrats. As one of the few Republicans in the field who recognizes the existence of global warming, let alone have a plan for it, McCain is worried that Republicans are ceding the issue to Democrats as well as the votes of young people and independents that …
