I guess sometimes it really is just best to face your fears:
The revelation of another check from Romney came as a surprise, as Romney had declared at a similar fund-raising event in Boston in January that it would be “akin to a nightmare” if he were forced to self-fund his campaign. His campaign later revealed that at the time Romney
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Just ahead of the 6/30 deadline for fundraising reports, FORTUNE Washington Bureau Chief Nina Easton gives us this behind-the-scenes look at the scramble for endorsements and contributions from business executives. “What’s different this time,” she writes, “is that CEOs are up for grabs on both sides.” The reason: “long-held alliances …
Karen ably highlighted the newsy scoops of the Washington Post’s Cheney piece yesterday, but I, of course, was struck by the many moments of not-quite-intentional hilarity.
There’s the Dirty Harry moment with Dan Quayle:
“I said, ‘Dick, you know, you’re going to be doing a lot of this international traveling, you’re going to be doing
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CQ has an interesting bit of news on how certain presidentially-aspiring Senators are behaving behind closed doors. It’s not as exciting as it sounds, but it gives some more context to why it is that Congress is having such a hard time earning the respect of the American voter — and how the Dems’ takeover hasn’t really changed much. …
The Washington Post today begins a four-part series on the extraordinary and unprecedented role that Dick Cheney has played as Vice President. There is plenty of new information in the first installment by Barton Gellman and Jo Becker. One big revelation is the way in which Cheney engineered the presidential order that denied terrorism …
There are few people in Washington who better understand the inner machinations of government than Scott Lilly, the former staff director of the House Appropriations Committee (among many posts he has held on Capitol Hill) and now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. Today, he writes about the back story behind the …
Jeff “Call Me Trooper” Garrity has taken a leave of absence, the campaign has confirmed, pending the resolution of the Massachusetts and New Hampshire complaints.
Obama’s stab at ethics reform in the Senate had its rough spots, but today he announced a whole suite of initiatives aimed at government reform in the executive branch (including, I’m told, the Office of the Vice President).
More important: You can now get Obama ringtones! Pretty pretty shiny! Sleep now byebye.
Or at least the “cop” part…
State Police are investigating one of Mitt Romney’s top campaign aides for allegedly impersonating a trooper by calling a Wilmington company and threatening to cite the driver of a company van for erratic driving, according to two law enforcement sources familiar with the probe.
Jay Garrity, who is
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Over at the New Republic, “Sick” author Jonathan Cohn takes a look at Michael Moore’s similarly titled new movie on the same subject, and finds it wrong on a lot of little things, but right on the big one. By the way, Cohn’s own book, which is a lively read that provides both a history of and an indictment of the U.S. health care …
This would be totally funny if it weren’t, you know, happening:
Vice President Dick Cheney has asserted his office is not a part of the executive branch of the U.S. government, and therefore not bound by a presidential order governing the protection of classified information by government agencies.
Also, he is not bound by the laws of …
Hey, remember that exciting YouTube/Google/CNN debate? It’s happening soon! Participatory democracy! The internets! It’s gonna be HUGE!!!
Or, uhm, not. 10 Zen Monkeys has the scoop on the five worst submissions… of 120:
Interestingly, the question comes from England, and YouTube also received questions from Spain, Canada, Australia,
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Elizabeth Edwards writes that the whole “Sisters Before Misters” controversy yesterday is the result of her pre-teen’s playfulness:
“It was Emma Claire, who pointed to a Hillary pin slyly and then, smiling pointed to her father. A nine-year [old] sense of humor — you would have thought Matt Drudge would have been able to pick up on
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