A few days back, I wrote a blog post arguing that the country’s new centrist mood might provide a narrow window to the GOP nomination for a moderate like Jon Huntsman, who can still check off the key pro-gun and pro-life boxes. The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin was one of several bloggers to
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Flashback: John McCain’s Gays In The Military Humor
This morning, Sen. John McCain addressed a panel of military brass at an Armed Services Committee hearing, where he explained again his opposition to changing the U.S. military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy.
At this time, we should be inherently cautious about making any changes that would affect our military, and what changes we do
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The Call: Financial Reg, Midterms and More
Just in case Karen’s health care Q&A isn’t quite enough to sate your hunger for Saturday podcast action, here’s Jay and Michael joining me for this week’s edition of The Call:
Re: Another Schoolyard Taunt…
Senator McCain offers this in response to that Gibbs gibe Michael mentioned:
“I haven’t got the time or the inclination to respond to the White House flack.”
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Another Schoolyard Taunt From The White House For Sen. John McCain
Yesterday, I wrote about the rhetorical flare up between Obama aide David Axelrod and the spokeswoman for John McCain. Today, the taunting continued, this time with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs taking the lead. From today’s briefing:
Q McCain said he’s going to oppose everything.
MR. GIBBS: Well, yes, I find it
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McCain and Palin: Just Like The Old Days
The Associated Press tells us:
PHOENIX — John McCain and Sarah Palin are scheduled to campaign together in Arizona next week for the first time since they conceded the presidential election in Phoenix in 2008.
Palin and McCain will be at a rally and picnic in Tucson on March 26, followed the next day by a rally in the
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The Tackiness of Political Fundraising
I just got an email from John McCain, asking for a $25 campaign contribution. In another time, McCain was about as close as you could come in the Senate to a campaign finance reform zealot, railing against the politicians who collect campaign money and then carry out the will of their donors. In the email I just got, McCain seems to be …
Health Care Summit: Not So Great Expectations
There’s little bipartisan agreement on what President Barack Obama’s health care summit on Thursday will truly be, though low expectations are popping up across the political spectrum.
“What’s disturbing is the continued media reports that [Democrats] already have their plan to move forward … no matter what the result is of …
Thoughts On Broken Government–Beyond Boobs And Ballots
This theme—the government is broken, frozen, incapacitated, petty, pathetic—is everywhere. TIME and CNN have even made it a week-long theme. Newsweek’s Jon Meacham, in typical mahogany-paneled erudition, devotes his weekly column to assuring his readers that history has seen even worse. A new poll shows that 86 percent of Americans …
McCain Gets a Primary Challenger
Sure, McCain’s had two primary opponents for months, but this one is so big that one of those original challengers — Minutemen Civil Defense Corps. founder Chris Simcox — actually stepped down and endorsed the new challenger. The newcomer isn’t really all that new, former Arizona Rep. J. D. Hayworth, who lost his seat in 2006. Hayworth …
The Freshman Class and Health Reform Cost Containment
Lately, there has been no shortage of criticism that the Democratic health care bill doesn’t do enough to cut health care spending. My colleague Karen Tumulty had a great story in the magazine recently about how cost-containment provisions in health reform legislation have been whittled down. Right now, on the Senate floor, a group of …
McCain, Maverick No More?
John McCain returned to the Senate in 2000 a virtual liberal: throwing bombs at his Republican leaders (and especially George W. Bush).
John McCain returned to the Senate in 2009 a virtual conservative: a model Republican and leading critic of President Obama – especially, these days, on the war in Afghanistan.
McCain’s …