The Washington Post today is a feast for those who believe that the now-infamous neo-conservatives who brought us to ruin in Iraq deserve comeuppance, if not something far more grave. Cheney was — and still is — the godfather of the push for war, but his team of enablers included, of course, his former chief of staff (and current …
During the Mark Foley scandal last fall, there was talk on Capitol Hill about suspending, or even shutting down, the 180-year-old Congressional page progam. That didn’t happen. In fact, as Tracy Schmidt reveals in this story on Time.com, the Foley scandal has done wonders for the page program’s popularity. Go figure.
The old line on McCain (i.e., 4-6 weeks ago) was that he was uncomfortable in the role of frontrunner and establishment candidate but was doing whatever it took to win the nomination. Well, he doesn’t have to worry about being the frontrunner anymore — or, for that matter, the choice of the establishment. What the Arizona senator’s weak …
It’s bad enough when other elected members of your party go out of their way to criticize you and distance themselves from you, as many GOP lawmakers have done to President Bush recently in the still-unfolding US Attorneys scandal. They, after all, have to worry about their House and Senate seats. But your problems are of a higher order …
John and Elizabeth Edwards did very well on 60 Minutes tonight. Katie Couric asked all the tough questions — including the ones I’ve raised on Swampland. John was particularly strong, and right, when he said of those who disagree with or aren’t sure about their decision to stay in the race: “All of those judgments and questions are …
I’ve been reading the reaction to the story I wrote yesterday for Time.com about John and Elizabeth Edwards’ announcement. Ana’s most recent post is particularly compelling. And many Swampland commenters have written very thoughtful responses and raised a lot of interesting and important questions. This is a thorny, difficult topic that …
The White House just released counsel Fred Fielding’s response to the request by the Senate Judiciary Committee for testimony from members of the White House staff — i.e., Karl Rove and Harriet Miers. As expected, Fielding, who was brought back to the job he held under Reagan for the purpose of arm-wrestling with a Democrat-controlled …
In the new (and newly redesigned) issue of TIME, we run a poll graphic that hasn’t been posted on the site yet that caught my eye. It’s drawn from a BBC World Service poll in which people around the globe were asked to rate the influence of other nations. No surprise — as the item says, “the U.S. has fallen sharply in world esteem over …
This came over the wires from the White House not long ago:
*THERE WILL BE AN ON-CAMERA BRIEFING BY DAN BARTLETT, COUNSELOR TO THE PRESIDENT, AT 2:00 PM LOCAL TIME (4:00 PM EDT) IN THE PRESS FILING CENTER IN MERIDA, MEXICO*
Tony Snow is on the LatAm trip, and Bartlett rarely briefs the press. So there’s a very specific reason they’re …
Twelve days ago, after David Iglesias went public, I said that if there turned out to be a broad conspiracy behind the firing of the U.S. Attorneys, “I will take my hat off to Marshall and others in the blogosphere and congratulate them for having been right in their suspicions about this story from the beginning.”
My hat is off. Josh …
Ann Coulter isn’t rich and (in)famous because the MSM has been soft on her. Precisely the opposite is true. Every time the mainstream media writes a story about the outrage caused by one of her extremely deliberate insults, Coulter sells more books and lands another lucrative speaking gig. The chronicling of that outrage, which many …
As Ana mentioned earlier today, this has been a particularly bad week for an Administration that hasn’t had many good ones in the past couple years. Nine U.S. soldiers died in Iraq yesterday. Hearings on Walter Reed Hospital and the fired U.S. Attorneys have made the administration look both insensitive to wounded veterans and dismissive …
I’m emerging from my spider hole, where I’ve been hard at work on that admiring profile of Michelle Malkin, to answer the request of some Swampland readers for comment on the latest about the fired US Attorneys.
As Josh Marshall has reminded readers of TPM, back in mid-January I posted on Swampland about the firings. At the time, I felt …
