It’s Not So Much the Amnesty

As it is the itching and the burning:

“Once you’ve been in bed with Ted Kennedy on immigration, you’ve got political herpes,” said William Gheen, president of Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, which opposed the legislation. “John McCain, you will never, ever be the president of the United States of America because of your betrayal of

Anti-Blogger? Anti-Urban? Racist?

To those of you out there who have called me these names and more, here is my response:

1.-Nowhere in my first post did I say I was “anti-blogging”. Quite to the contrary, I said to bloggers who want to take the Democratic Party back into the big tent, “God bless you and thank you.” I was quoted saying after the Webb election that the …

Elite Baiting

I would not have predicted this turn of events for Mudcat’s first day in the swamp…

As for Mudcat’s position vis-a-vis liberal elites and intolerance: I think they’re not intolerant — or maybe sharp-elbowed — enough, at least when it comes Bush and his mistakes. Wouldn’t your guy Webb agree? I’m a huge fan of his, and I think he’s a …

That lukasiak feller just told us why we lose presidentials

Mr. Lukasiak…thanks for providing the perfect example of why Democrats lose national elections. Concerning your description of the south, that is “intolerance” personified, and since your Mama obviously forgot to tell you, I will. It is immoral to stereotype any group of people. I thought as Democrats we didn’t characterize people by …

Go Ahead And Shoot At Me

I woke up this morning and was going to start my stint as a guest correspondent by trying to kick up a dialogue on how my people in rural America are getting screwed into the stone ages. As an inexperienced blogger (I think this is the third time I’ve posted anything), I thought it prudent to get some tips from the Time staff on what I …

Mudcat in the Swamp

It’s my pleasure to introduce to Swampland our newest guest blogger, Mudcat Saunders. I’m sure many if not most of our readers are familiar with Mudcat, a Democratic consultant who specializes in helping candidates appeal to rural voters. He advised Jim Webb’s successful campaign against George Allen last fall. He was on Mark Warner’s …

Re: Thoughts on Sentencing

I’ve been amazed at the eagerness with which blogospheric and MSM pundits alike have latched onto the Paris/Scooter analogy. Clearly, we are all Maureen Dowd now.

Joe’s thoughts on the synchronictious sentencing are, however, somewhat unique and I’d like to respond to them. First, this observation:

Seems to me that could work either

In the Arena In the Arena

Thoughts on Sentencing

First, Juan Cole this morning on Paris Hilton and 19,000 Iraqi prisoners.

And from a few days ago, E.J. Dionne on Paris and Scooter. But I’m troubled by one quote in the column from the ineffable former Governor Jim Gilmore of Virginia:

“If the public believes there’s one law for a certain group of people in high places and another law

In the Arena In the Arena

Next Year in Iraq

Tom Ricks has this to say about military planning in Iraq today. There are two important points here. The first is this:

The immediate all-or-nothing debate in Washington over troop levels represents a false dilemma, some military officials said. Even if a total pullout is the goal, it could take a year to execute a full withdrawal. One

KT Says “Hi”

I told Karen that our faithful commenters had asked after her; she’s tickled by your expressions of sympathy and good will and wants well-wishers to know that she’s recovering from surgery just fine and expects to be back on the job by the last week of June.

In truth, it’s not like she’s really AWAY from the job. She’s been sending …

Libby’s Last Stand

A group of exceedingly prominent law professors (including Alan Dershowitz and Robert Bork) filed an amicus brief to Judge Reggie Walton yesterday, arguing that the Libby verdict could possibly be overturned on appeal because of the “close question” about the constitutionality of the special prosecutor.

I’ll leave it to the fine legal …

A Few Parting Words

I enjoyed my time here in the Swampland this week; thanks again for the invitation. I wanted to leave you all with my thoughts on political trends over the next two years.

I would not expect any meaningful bills to come off of the Hill as the presidential primaries will overshadow any serious legislative efforts. Immigration reform …

Pace Pace

What does it all mean?

Speaking to reporters, and referring to the debate over the war in Iraq, Gates said he had wanted to renominate Marine Gen. Peter Pace as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff but then concluded doing so would create “a confirmation process that would not be in the best interest of the country.”

Because we …

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