I know Joe and Ana are very excited about Barack Obama’s speech today, in which, among other things, he called for eliminating nuclear weapons in the world. And I agree that Senator Obama deserves credit for embracing a national security initiative that is both bold and sensible at the same time, not to mention bi-partisan. But it is …
Andrew Ferguson serves up a wonderfully subversive review of Alan Greenspan’s memoir in the new issue of The Weekly Standard. You don’t have to agree with Ferguson to enjoy his iconoclastic wit, which in this case is aimed at both Greenspan and Ayn Rand. My favorite passage:
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Top-shelf political reporter Jackie Calmes delivers a must-read front-page piece in today’s Wall Street Journal that must surely have operatives over at RHC RNC headquarters doubling the dosage of their ulcer meds. We already knew, of course, that President Bush and Republican leaders in Congress had alienated many fiscal conservatives …
Joe Biden just held a conference call with reporters to “clarify a couple of things” about his Iraq plan, an endorsement of which was passed last week by the Senate as a non-binding resolution (the Biden-Brownback Iraq Federalism Amendment). It passed by a vote of 75-23, with substantial bi-partisan support. Senator Biden is angry at …
Speaking of (perceptions of) the inevitability of Sen. Clinton winning the Democratic nomination for president, Republicans are behaving as if the votes have already been cast. The Hill newspaper has a piece today about Stop Her Now and other efforts to tarnish Clinton’s image in anticipation of her winning the nomination. And Mike …
I know this is a blog about politics, but I encourage anyone out there who hasn’t already done so to read Amanda Ripley’s Time.com piece about Tania Head, the 9/11 “survivor” featured on yesterday’s front page of the New York Times. Ripley interviewed Head for a story about 9/11 survivors several years ago. She looks back on that …
Our Jay Newton-Small has a smart piece about President Bush, the born-again conservative, and how his decision to prove his bona fides by promising to veto the children’s health care bill is making many a lot of Republicans unhappy.
At least, the Republican National Committee doesn’t think so. The RNC blast-emailed a solicitation to party members across the country a little while ago in the form of a letter from the incumbent president and nominal head of the party. “In just over 13 months, Americans go to the polls to elect the next President,” Bush writes in his …
David Brooks takes after the Netroots in his column today in the New York Times, arguing that Hillary Clinton’s commanding position in the primary proves that the internet-driven hordes on the left are not nearly so influential in the Democratic Party as we all thought. Clintonism and the DLC still hold sway over the party, he says, and …
The Obama campaign is holding a conference call now announcing that their candidate is being endorsed by Gordon Fischer, former Iowa Democratic state party chair. A nice pick-up in a state where experience getting people to the caucuses is a huge plus.
I’ve written a piece discussing Fred Thompson’s mediocre launch as a full-fledged presidential candidate — and questioning the thrashing he’s received from the pens and tongues of some members of the conservative opinion elite. Thompson may be a bust in the end, but it’s a bit premature to write off a candidate who’s in second place and …
As Ana and others have been chronicling, John McCain has resurrected his campaign. He’s still struggling financially, but he’s stopped his slide in the polls and begun inching his way upward again. Building on a strong performance in the most recent GOP debate, McCain is riding his role as General Petraeus’ most ardent supporter straight …
Which version of Bush on Iraq will we get tonight? Will it be the standard-issue President who always sees that wrecked country, and the U.S. mission there, in various stages of progress, and who dismisses those who see otherwise as naysayers? Or will he adopt the tone he used in January of this year, when he actually acknowledged that …
