I like Ryan Lizza’s analysis of the Hillary-may-skip-Iowa story:
Perhaps it is a controlled leak to lower expectations for Hillary in Iowa, where — what a coincidence! — she has been cratering in the polls recently. Just raising the idea that she might skip Iowa changes the perception about how well she has to do there, and it is
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I’ve got an actual story up about the McCain/Romney spat. The two campaigns have the most quickly birthed feud in modern politics, I look forward to following it:
Indeed one thing both McCain and Romney staffers agree on: The aside and the two camp’s reactions to it highlight the fundamental differences between the campaigns — and the
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The Bush Administration now has one less political fight on its hands. The National Association of Manufacturers lobbyist that the White House had nominated to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission has withdrawn his name. This came after Barack Obama and other Democrats had raised questions about Baroody’s ability to regulate the …
We all know that zombie movies are all political allegories, but it’s also true that some politicians are actually zombies:
In virtually any other Presidency, Alberto Gonzales—a clumsy prevaricator, a talentless hack and a dangerously indifferent advocate of the rule of law—would be a dead man walking. In the Bush White House,
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A good tagline for both photos: “Poop is raining from the ceilings. Poop!”
A question to ponder: Did Monica have a Dwight in the DOJ?
PS: It was Karen that noticed this first, and our fantastic dotcom team that put together the photo.
UPDATE: A Swampland reader noticed it firster:
Just slightly down the food chain is an
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Joe’s right that, for all the anger and frustration we are hearing today from the Democratic base, there was never much chance that their leaders were going to hold to setting deadlines for withdrawal from Iraq. Despite the leadership’s public statements, the guidance that reporters were getting on background from generally reliable …
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This was inevitable. And, for the moment, it’s the right thing to do.
I’m not so sure that rants like the one Ana describes below are what we need right now, however satisfying and entertaining Keith’s passion might be. Since the Republicans have chosen to be the party of Iraq irrationality, there is a need for Democrats to be measured …
We have it on good authority that, barring the miraculous, tonight’s “Countdown” will feature a “Special Comment” from Olbermann on the Iraq funding deal negotiated yesterday and we’ve obtained a rough draft of it. Mr. Olbermann is not pleased. As you might, he unloads on Bush:
How shameful it would be to watch an **adult** hold his
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How much will we learn tomorrow when Monica Goodling, the Justice Department’s former White House liaison, testifies in front of the House Judiciary Committee under a grant of immunity from prosecution? A spokeswoman for the Committee says it has been given “every indication” that she will be forthcoming.
We have a few indications of …
I’m told by a senior Congressional official involved in the negotiations that House Democratic leaders plan to handle their Iraq war funding dilemma by attaching two amendments to a bill sponsored by Sen. Patty Murray. The first amendment will include most of the popular domestic spending (or pork, as critics call it) that was included …
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A really good eyewitness piece from Baghdad by Spencer Ackerman in the Nation.
Hillary Clinton is already raising the question of whether we should keep training the Iraqis on the campaign trail. But, as David Ignatius reports, the Bush Administration sees this a different way.
I’m closer to the Ackerman-Clinton position–with a …
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Here’s David Yepsen–who has covered more caucuses than (even) me–on the meaning of the polls.
And here’s the most important thing you should know about Iowa:
Finally, the polls show 69 percent of the Democrats and 77 percent of the Republicans say they could be persuaded to change their minds.
That will be true, I would guess, until …
TPMMuckraker has an advance copy of a new book about the Dukester, authored by Copley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning team, which tells us what we were missing at all those parties aboard his yacht.
