Jonathan Martin over at Politico catches the candidate whose last job was running the state of Massachusetts exposing an inexcusable lack of familiarity with a Boston Red Sox tradition.Of course, Romney would just as soon not remind GOP voters of his last job, so maybe he was faking it!
It’s my pleasure to introduce to Swampland our newest guest blogger, Mudcat Saunders. I’m sure many if not most of our readers are familiar with Mudcat, a Democratic consultant who specializes in helping candidates appeal to rural voters. He advised Jim Webb’s successful campaign against George Allen last fall. He was on Mark Warner’s …
First Clinton and Edwards. Now McCain and Brownback. Did ANYONE in the Senate read the NIE before voting to invade Iraq? Amazing. And depressing.
Update: Reader Hoplite promises, “If Carnie himself has read either Ulysses or the NIE, I’d have a heart attack.” Hoplite: Better call 911. I read the first with relish, some time ago, over …
I’d like to join in thanking Dick Armey for entering Swampland this week. He may remember that I spent some time covering him, Newt Gingrich and the rest of the GOP leadership that took over the House after the 1994 mid-term elections. I wrote one story in 1997 I doubt he liked much, after the failed coup attempt against Gingrich. A year …
Adam Zagorin just posted a story on Time.com reporting in depth on developments in the trial and sentencing of Don Siegelman, the former Democratic governor of Alabama. Adam has key assertions from the affidavit of a Republican lawyer who testifies that on a conference call in November 2002 she heard a close associate of Karl Rove boast …
Dan Bartlett went to work for George W. Bush straight out of college, 14 years ago, when Bush was making his first run for governor of Texas. During the 2000 campaign, Bartlett’s job was to know everything about Bush’s past and Texas record. He has been a constant in Bush’s political life. Now Bartlett, 36 today and the father of three …
I was wondering what Valerie Plame was doing in New York yesterday when I saw her across the lobby of my hotel. Turns out she was here to file suit in federal court against the CIA, which has blocked the publication of her memoir. It’s always amazing how Washington scandals metastasize.
Karen has a piece in the new print magazine about Barack Obama’s penchant for telling audiences things they don’t want to hear. Read it slowly — Karen is off for the next few weeks!
When Bob Novak, the Prince of both Darkness and conservative punditry, reviewed Fred Thompson’s much-anticipated May 4 speech at the Orange County Lincoln Club, his critique was so negative that you could almost hear the air hissing out of the Thompson 08 campaign balloon.
Novak’s occasional apostasy is what makes him a must-read for …
I want to respond to some of the early reaction out there to my post on the two Hillary books about to be published. The post takes note of the front-page story in the WP this morning about the two books, judges the revelations in the books (as reported in the WP story) to be fairly unsensational and then throws out the incontrovertible …
So what are we to make of the Washington Post story today about the two, soon-to-be-published tomes on Hillary Rodham Clinton? Based on the story, neither book is very flattering. But again, based on the WashPo story (because we haven’t scored copies of the books yet), the revelations contained in the books are not of the bombshell …
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 …
Democrats trying to figure out Iraq funding legislation they can get Bush to sign are working on a bill without timelines and without much of the unrelated domestic spending that fattened up previous versions. But they may attach a minimum wage hike to the bill. Will anti-war members bolt? Should they?
I never liked the idea of buying …
