At a National Press Club lunch featuring top women staffers from all the major GOP presidential campaigns, one line rang out above all others — at least to the ears of our Ana Marie Cox, who was in attendance. Ana fired an email from her table alerting us that Karen Hanretty of Fred Thompson’s campaign delivered this accidental
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Are we ever going to hear the end of last week’s Democratic debate? One of the flimsier arguments we have heard lately is President Clinton’s suggestion yesterday that the criticism that his wife got over her confusing and confused response to a question about granting drivers licenses to illegal immigrants was tantamount to …
Barack Obama may be struggling to peel Democrats away from Hillary Clinton’s camp, but there is one segment of voters with which Obama appears to have, both statistically and anecdotally, a considerable advantage over Clinton and his other primary campaign opponents: disaffected Republicans. Jay Newton-Small just posted a smart piece on …
Let me just be the last person to tell you that Ron Paul raised a s***load of money yesterday.
I was just on tv talking about this and Scarborough asked one of the other panelists — Matthew Continetti — if the Republican party should be talking Paul seriously. Continetti said that he wasn’t sure if the people who voiced support for …
Remember Julie Myers, the then-36-year-old who was nominated to be head of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (I.C.E.) back in late 2005 despite having virtually no experience managing a large bureaucracy and little background handling immigration or customs issues? A former federal prosectuor who had worked on Ken Starr’s …
Dana Milbank’s funny/scathing/sad account of White House squirming over the situation in Pakistan is a must-read this morning. Don’t miss this interesting detail from yesterday’s 40-minute briefing by an unnamed, high-ranking White House official:
…Bush aides must have realized this was not something to be proud of. Before the
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The New York Times has a followup story today to the blistering front-page piece it ran Saturday on Rudy Giuliani’s longstanding friendship with Bernard Kerik–how that relationship fueled Kerik’s unlikely rise to police chief, and how Giuliani’s characteristic loyalty blinded him to some warning signs. With Kerik now facing indictment …
From today’s White House briefing.
Q: Is it ever reasonable to restrict constitutional freedoms in the name of fighting terrorism?
MS. PERINO: In our opinion, no.
She also came out against invading other countries without a plan for what’s next, putting cronies in charge federal agencies, torture, Medicare part D, treating gay
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Hillary released a hefty energy policy today, chock full of progressive environmental ideas…that may sound familiar to Barack Obama and John Edwards (as well as Bill Richardson and Al Gore — who she credited). Hillary’s become the last of the front-runners to endorse an 80% reduction in greenhouse gasses by 2050, and she’s pounced …
A commenter mentioned in passing the news over at Citigroup: the ouster of CEO Chuck Prince and its general Titanic-ing. It’s not strictly “politics in the nation’s capital,” but since subprime mortgages and foreign ownership of key American assets (Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal is the largest individual investor in Citigroup and was …
There was a surprisingly powerful reaction to my Sunday morning post about foreign service officers’ duty or lackthereof. I especially appreciated the long comment made by the gentleman who says he is a retired FSO himself, who points out that the State Department regularly loses people to violence in foreign countries; their sacrifice …
Karen and I both attended a lunch in DC today held by mega-firm DLA Piper that featured two of its name hires — former House majority leaders Dick Armey and Dick Gephart — on a panel moderated by Charlie Cook to discuss election 2008. Armey and Gephardt are unique (you might say admirable) in the era of millionaire legislators: neither …
The Edwards campaign contacted me to point out that the video clip that circulated yesterday showing Edwards answering the “licenses for illegals” question left out the very end of the exchange.
The video ends with this:
EDWARDS: I heard her say two different things. I don’t know what she’s calling for. I mean she said the first time
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