Could this be the first sign that Michael Mukasey, in his first week on the job as Attorney General, really does intend to bring a new openness to the Justice Department?:
The Justice Department said yesterday that it has reopened an internal investigation of the role played by its lawyers in the administration’s warrantless
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Are on election day, or so I’ve heard. And the national polls are useless, at this point. And Iowa polls are notoriously unreliable, but this poll of the early states, Iowa and New Hampshire, but especially Iowa, from the relatively reputable CBS-NYTimes numbers crunchers is fascinating on two counts.
The Democratic race is a three-way …
In this SwampCast, some thoughts on the field below the top of the ticket on the Republican side. Say hello to New Hampshire winner Ron Paul, everyone…
WARNING: This is inside baseball/horseracey.
I think the planted questions story may be an example of the fragility of Clinton’s “aggressive” media strategy. While I — and maybe Iowans — do care about planted questions, the practice of suggesting a question or two is not necessarily a crime. If Clinton does sink to Bush-style …
Michael Crowley has a very interesting piece in The New Republic about how the Hillary Clinton campaign manages the media. The essence is here:
Reporters who have covered the hyper-vigilant campaign say that no detail or editorial spin is too minor to draw a rebuke. Even seasoned political journalists describe reporting on Hillary as a
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He may still win Iowa, but as Garance Franke-Ruta points out, this sort of demagogic nonsense is really dreadful.
In it, he declares, as he does so often at campaign appearances:
“When I’m president I’m going to say to members of Congress and members of my administration, including my cabinet: I’m glad that you have health care coverage and your family has health care coverage. But if you don’t pass universal health care by July of 2009 – in six
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CNN talks to the student who asked Hillary Clinton a planted question. As scandals go, this isn’t much. But it is a telling glimpse of how campaigns actually work.:
Politico assesses the progress congressional Democrats have made in blocking funding for the war in Iraq and put forward this metric as measure of success:
Since taking the majority, they have forced 40 votes on bills limiting President Bush’s war policy.
Only one of those has passed both chambers, even though both are run by
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We’ve seeing a fair amount of triumphalism from the usual suspects on the right about the situation on the ground in Iraq. Premature, I think–in part because of the limits of the bottom-up strategy. We may just be in the midst of a vast Iraqi exhale before the next phase of the civil war. That phase could include renewed fighting …
So what does it mean that, despite a record that includes lobbying for an abortion rights advocacy group and a stand against amending the Constitution to ban abortion, Fred Thompson apparently has gotten the endorsement of the nation’s pre-eminent anti-abortion political organization, the Natonal Right to Life Committee?
In many ways, …
Romney piled on McCain for third-party ads touting him in South Carolina, saying “It is an entire end-run on any effort to control campaign spending and offer transparency,” and adding “that the legislation championed by McCain in 2002 to overhaul campaign finance had turned out to be a failure.”
McCain senior adviser Mark Salter sent a …
