This is just horrible: Reuters is reporting that the growth in Tony Snow’s abdomen — which he went under the knife to have removed yesterday — is cancerous.
There are no details yet.
Let me say that I did some self-cringing last week, when I choose to describe Tony as the “most fun” press secretary of the administration. I was …
So, I gather you all (Glenn Greenwald, most notably) picked up on something Time ME Rick Stengel said on The Chris Matthew Show Sunday about the possibility that Congress may pull Rove and Miers in to testify about the USA scandal: “I am so uninterested in the Democrats wanting Karl Rove because it is so bad for them.”
It’s a sentiment …
Good catch, Karen — but my latent high school drama geek is demanding that I point out the original source for your former editor’s quip. It sounds like it may spring from this line: “No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up,” from Lily Tomlin’s one-woman show by Jane Wagner, The Search for Signs of Intelligent …
Speaking of Obama’s blue-collar appeal: I’m reminded of what a Dem consultant told me recently, “Post-Katrina, I only have one criteria for who I work for: Can he — or she — talk empathetically about class and poverty without a pollster in the room?” A notable failure on that front, the consultant told me, was Obama.
UPDATE: Just to …
They don’t call Bob Novak “Mr. Happy Happy Sunshine” for nothing:
The saving grace that some Republicans find in the dispute over U.S. attorneys is that, at least temporarily, it blurs debate over an unpopular war.
In other words, the Presidency isn’t half-empty, it’s completely corrupt!
I don’t think she’ll need to worry about this:
“I expect to live a long time,” Mrs. Edwards said. “I expect us to have lots and lots of years together. I do believe that. But if that’s not the case, I don’t want my legacy to be that I pulled somebody who ought to be president out of the race. It’s not fair to me, in a
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So it looks like Obama was not the only candidate to not wish the Edwardses well on stage in Las Vegas; Kucinich appears to have left that out of his TPs as well. But as far as Obama’s sentiments: I emailed both campaigns and they both confirmed that Obama has personally communicated his sympathy to the family. An Edwards spokesperson …
Shorter Hillary: YOU CAN TELL I CARE ABOUT HEALTH CARE BECAUSE I AM SHOUTING ALL THE TIME.
She is in favor of universal health care (now) and thinks it could take as little as… eight years to get there. She did this weird thing where she walked around during the question time rather than sit and talk like a normal person. (Though now …
Richardson: Jolly Latino Elf who wants all the children to have health care. Coolest moment — no doubt whatsoever that mental health coverage should have parity with all other health coverage. Being a dark horse candidate gives one sympathy with the crazy people, I think. Wishes Elizabeth Edwards well within the first minute on …
Karen phrased it about as tactfully as she could, but she did just ask Edwards, “Can voters trust you to be in it for the duration?” To which Edwards replied, “We’re in it for the duration.”
A more important response came later, when he pointed out that he and Elizabeth are lucky: “A lot women who have cancer don’t have a choice. A lot …
Is it a “scandal” yet?
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales approved plans to fire several U.S. attorneys in a November meeting, according to documents released Friday that contradict earlier claims that he was not closely involved in the dismissals.
WH Spokesguy Snow will be hospitalized as part of an “aggressive” response to a potential re-emergence of colon cancer.
He said Friday that tests since the growth was discovered have been negative, but that doctors decided to remove it to be sure.
“Please do not leap to conclusions about this because we don’t know what this is,” Snow
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Anti-war* Democrats (and Republicans) have their deadline: September 2008. A Democratic strategist I spoke to on Wednesday told me that the bill, ultimately, could be very bad for Ds: “They should have kept it clean.” (Meaning, just a vote on the timetable, without the sweeteners.) But this person also though the bill wouldn’t …
