I’m joined by Jay Newton-Small to talk about the Democrats’ strategy beyond SCHIP.
NOTE: For those of you who are stuck in DC with nothing better to do, tonight is the annual “DC’s Funniest Celebrity Contest.” I’ll be competing, Karen will be judging. Bring your own rotten tomatoes.
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Over the summer, I took an informal poll of Iraq analysts at various US intelligence agencies about how and whether the Iraq war would spill over into neighboring countries. None of the analysts seemed particularly concerned that Iran would rush in and seize parts of Iraq–although Iran’s influence is growing, especially in Basra.
The …
Think all that bellicose rhetoric we’ve been hearing lately from Administraiton allies and other assorted neo-cons about launching an attack on Iran is just, well, rhetoric? You may be right. As a colleague said to me recently, this Administration could barely muster the support, publicly or internally, to launch an attack on the nearest …
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John Judis has an interesting theory about why the Republicans did better than expected (they still lost) in the special Congressional race in Massachusetts this week.
A flawed companion piece appears in the Washington Post today about Obama’s difficulty selling bipartisanship to the Democratic Party’s base….flawed because …
On the eve of the House vote on overriding the President’s veto, this new survey, conducted by National Public Radio, the Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Harvard School of Public Health lays out a pretty stark political equation in favor of expanding the program. From the summary:
The survey finds strong majority support for the
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And then, there’s this.
It’s a long shot, but not an impossibility, as Jay Newton-Small writes in a new piece on Time.com. Meanwhile, the Republicans are losing yet another Senator to retirement — although apparently not for a few years.
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My theory is that the Rockies are reaping the karmic benefits of generosity, having granted a full series share to the widow of their minor league coach who was killed by a batted ball. There is a lesson in this for politicians. The President, an ardent baseball fan, might reconsider his SCHIP veto.
A very quick hit on Rudy, pegged to the release of his FEC filings.
You know the joke about Republicans that they stop caring about children once they leave the womb? True or not, it at least suggests that there is an age at which conservatives will not conduct a character attack on a child. It turns out that being two-and-a-half is old enough:
I’m such a meanie that I immediately Googled her and
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A rival campaign alerted me to these details from the Obama filing:
$27.00 For Printing At The Arkansas State Archives In Little Rock, Arkansas.
$9.30 For Printing At The William J. Clinton Presidential Library In Little Rock, Arkansas.
$207.75 For Travel/Lodging At The La Quinta Inn & Suites In Little Rock, Arkansas.
In case you …
One of the advantages of working in the big, soulless office building that houses the Time Washington Bureau is the fact that I occasionally bump into former Texas Congressman Martin Frost on the elevator. (He’s the kind of guy who will always hold the OPEN DOOR button for you.)
Frost, who headed the Democratic Congressional Campaign …
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This op-ed, by 12 US Army captains who formerly served in Iraq, doesn’t quite have the current, on-the-ground credibility of the NY Times op-ed by 7 current enlisted men last summer, but it is devastating all the same.
Also, on the military beat: Fred Kaplan, excellent as always, had a really important analysis of Sec. Gates recent …
