Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Senator John Edwards released the following statement today following the announcement that a growth in Tony Snow’s abdomen was found to be cancerous.
“Elizabeth and I were saddened to hear the news that Tony Snow is once again battling cancer. Tony has been an incredible example for people living with
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Okay, I’m going to wade into this, too, though I know I’m going to regret it, as I do every time I play media defender on this blog (which, by the way, is not in my job description here at TIME). And before all our commenters jump on me, let me stipulate: I think the unfolding U.S. Attorneys story is a huge one, it deserves a massive …
The other day, I got screamed at by a TSA employee at Logan Airport for trying to get a full-size tube of Crest past security. Wonder what she would think of Jim Webb aide Phillip Thompson, who “forgot” that he had the boss’s loaded .45-caliber pistol, plus two magazines of spare ammo, in his briefcase when he tried to get through a …
A former editor of mine used to joke that no matter how cynical you get in Washington, you just can’t keep up. I was reminded of that this morning as I read the Washington Post report that GSA Administrator Lurita Alexis Doan had instructed employees of the agency to find ways to help “our candidates” in the next election. The GSA is the …
Whoa! Yesterday’s post seems to have hit a nerve with our commenters. I clearly don’t have the touch for comedy, so maybe I should leave that to Ana in the future. Blogger Brad DeLong also seems to think I was disparaging the topic, when that couldn’t have been further from what I intended. It took no small amount of preparation for me …
Okay, after three very intense. hours (plus) onstage moderating this health care forum, I really needed a massage and a margarita. Not in that order. So here, belatedly, is my take from the moderators’s chair:
I suspected that my colleagues in the press filing center weren’t entirely thrilled at spending a Saturday in Las Vegas this …
I’m heading out today to Las Vegas, where I will be moderating a candidate forum on health care this Saturday, sponsored by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; SEIU, and the Center for American Progress Action Fund. All the candidates from both parties were invited, and the following Democrats accepted: Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, …
The Edwards campaign last night announced that the two of them will hold a press conference at noon today in Chapel Hill. Reports are that it regards Elizabeth’s health and the future of his campaign. There are also reports that they have cancelled a number of campaign events scheduled for the near future. Our thoughts and prayers here …
I’m not a legal expert, but my colleague Reynolds Holding is, and here’s what he has to say on the subject. I’ve seen a number of comparisons today like this one between Bush and Clinton in Reynolds’ piece:
Despite his strong views of executive power, the current President Bush has rarely invoked executive privilege, says Rozell, at
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With President Bush’s argument that conversations between a President and his aides have to be protected, we seem to be headed once again into one of the murkier areas of the Constitution: its presumed guarantee of executive privilege. In his vow to fight subpoenas that would require Karl Rove and other aides to give public testimony, …
In this very accelerated political season with its very large field of candidates, the media seem to be getting ahead of the voters. What’s the hurry, 10 months before the first caucus, to winnow the field to a few candidates deemed viable–say, three at most from each party? With fewer moving parts, this very big story can assume a …
A forum at the Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government got unexpectedly interesting tonight, when Hillary Clinton pollster Mark Penn lit into Barack Obama on the Iraq war, contending that, for all his talk of how he opposed the invasion in 2002, “there’s not much of a difference” between the way Obama voted and the way Clinton voted, once …
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy’s announcement today that he plans to subpoena White House officials, possibly including Karl Rove, is big news–and exactly the kind of showdown the White House has been dreading. Before the election, Bush Administration officials were sounding a very hard line. Here’s what we wrote in …
