E.J. Dionne, writing for the New Republic, gives us a fascinating inside look at how the Obama White House manages the punditocracy:
Last Thursday afternoon, for example, the White House invited in journalists, mostly opinion writers, to sell them on the substance of the president’s big speech on Guantanamo and the treatment of
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Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is playing with fire on two fronts–its ridiculous anti-Iran rhetoric (which isn’t as ridiculous as Iran’s anti-Israel rhetoric, but still…) and its continuing effort to build and increase the illegal settlements on the West Bank. When the Netanyahu government took down an illegal settler outpost a few …
So Barack Obama could help us sell more magazines.
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You can see the whole C-SPAN interview here.
Just a reminder of those who serve, and all those who ever have.
(By Brooks Kraft, via our White House Photo Blog)
1. John McCain (IV) gets a hug from Barack Obama, finally.
2. Ben Smith uncovers the best headline of the day, week: “Mayor quits job for gay illegal immigrant he loves”
3. Jon Martin explains the role treadmills, tae kwon do, and sweat plays in the White House legislative strategy.
4. Don’t miss Jack Goldsmith’s analysis of how …
The old joke in Washington is that people here don’t read books, they just read indexes — to see if they can find their own names. As we head into the long holiday weekend that kicks off the summer, Paul Slansky takes that same approach to give us a hilarious summary of what has been, let’s face it, a pretty wacky week.
Tell us, …
The news that Liberty University shut down the school’s College Democrats club probably isn’t as surprising as the news that Liberty University had a College Democrats club in the first place. After all, the Lynchburg, VA-based school was founded by the late Jerry Falwell and isn’t exactly known for its political diversity.
Still, …
Speaker Nancy Pelosi had a surprise for the several dozen reporters gathered in her ceremonial office this Friday morning for her weekly press conference: some guests. Pelosi brought with her her top leadership team, Steny Hoyer, Xavier Becerra and Chris Van Hollen minus whip Jim Clyburn. “Good morning,” Hoyer blustered with an …
Laura Rozen has an interesting list of the key foreign policy players below the top tier in the Obama Administration.
Consider today the dueling columns of Charles Krauthammer and David Brooks. Krauthammer, the ideologue, makes a debater’s boutique argument: Obama is just continuing Bush’s anti-terror policies with a little window-dressing. This elides the actual truth of the matter, which Brooks approaches: Bush’s policies evolved–toward legality, …
I meant to post on this a few days ago, but the arrest of a key leader of the Sunni Awakening Councils in Diyala province is not a good sign. Diyala, which is located just northeast of Baghdad has been one of the toughest provinces to calm over the past two years, in part because it is not pure of sect–the Sunnis represent a significant …
Energy and Commerce hires a speedreader. Also, it would appear that they are putting vodka in their water glasses again.
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(H/T: C-SPAN video library)
