Ana suggests the media have inflated the Obama-on-the-attack story line. No question they/we have. And she’s right that calling out Clinton for deliberate opacity on entitlement reform is hardly a vicious personal attack. But let’s not forget that the inflation began with Obama himself, who sat down for a New York Times interview in …
In its effort to convince Ted Stevens to reconsider running for re-election to the Senate next year, the Alaska Democratic Party has launched a website — RetireTed.com — devoted to the ethical cloud hovering over the six-term Republican. Despite being under investigation by the FBI and the IRS in a corruption probe that has also …
It should be said — and I’m saying it here — that the Giuliani campaign’s blistering press release comparing Mitt Romney to Hillary Clinton (see post below) was issued today in response to a leaked section of the speech Romney is scheduled to deliver tonight at the Values Voters summit in Washington. In it, Romney is the one doing the …
There was a time when comparing your opponent in a Republican presidential primary to a Clinton was considered so below-the-belt that it would backfire. That’s what happened to John McCain in South Carolina back in 2000, when he went on the air with an ad accusing then-Gov. George W. Bush, not unreasonably, of twisting the truth “like …
Drip, drip, drip. In an exchange with Senator Chuck Schumer during his confirmation hearings, Attorney General nominee Michael Mukasey said today that he’d be willing to take a look at evidence of political interference in the prosecution and conviction of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman — after Siegelman completes the appeals …
Think all that bellicose rhetoric we’ve been hearing lately from Administraiton allies and other assorted neo-cons about launching an attack on Iran is just, well, rhetoric? You may be right. As a colleague said to me recently, this Administration could barely muster the support, publicly or internally, to launch an attack on the nearest …
It’s a long shot, but not an impossibility, as Jay Newton-Small writes in a new piece on Time.com. Meanwhile, the Republicans are losing yet another Senator to retirement — although apparently not for a few years.
As many Swampland readers know, Adam Zagorin broke new ground recently with his reporting on the Don Siegelman case and the seemingly partisan pursuit of justice in Alabama. Now the conservative editorial page of the Birmingham News, Alabama’s biggest newspaper, has weighed in with an editorial citing Time’s story and calling on …
I have to answer two questions from commenter “Elvis Elvisberg”:
Jay, do you buy what Dodd’s spokesman is peddling? And can you smell what the Rock is cooking?
A1: Is Dodd’s adviser putting the best possible spin on the fact that his candidate still hasn’t broken out of the bottom tier, has scarce financial resources and very long odds …
As an obsessed Red Sox fan, I of course think Senator Chris Dodd’s attempt to pick up donors (and voters) by holding a raffle for a ticket to Game 6 of the ALCS at Fenway is borderline genius. But even discounting for bias, the scheme is very clever. After all, the Connecticut senator’s best (and probably only) chance to have an impact …
There have been many debates in this primary season, but none thus far, in either party, has produced the kind of defining moment that fundamentally alters the dynamic of a campaign. This afternoon’s gathering of GOP candidates in Dearborn, sponsored by MSNBC and the Wall Street Journal, might be different. Mitt Romney has spent the past …
Adam Zagorin, who has turned his superior investigative instinct onto subjects ranging from Jack Abramoff to Guantanamo Bay in recent years, delivers a must-read piece in this week’s print magazine on newly discovered irregularities in the investigation that put former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman in prison. Zagorin has as exclusive …
The headline on a Romney campaign press release today was more than a little deceptive:
ROMNEY FOR PRESIDENT TOTALS OVER $18 MILLION IN
TOTAL RECEIPTS FOR THE THIRD QUARTER
So Mitt Romney raised over $18 million — not bad, right? Right — $18 million raised would put him in range of Hillary and Obama for the third quarter. But that’s …
