Our delightful superior, Josh Tyrangiel, just emailed me with the “Dylan Messaging” gizmo that’s making it’s way around the net. He thought we “could have some fun with it” on Swampland, adapting it to politics. Maybe, I said. But…
Otherwise, have at it.
Her grasp of the obvious is unimpeachable:
SAWYER: It’s got to be so hard when you can turn on any television and see somebody making a joke about your dad.
JENNA BUSH: We don’t watch that much television. It’s a good way to, to not, to not see it.
The McCain campaign is having a conference call to announce a state-wide ad buy in New Hampshire for two tv spots and one radio ad. I have no idea where they got the money to do this. They probably hope the buy does two things: Makes us reporters get temporary amnesia about how badly their fundraising is going, and shores up the …
Today’s pick from our White House photo blog:
• If the Webb Amendment was “unconstitutional,” what’s this: “Army Chief of Staff George W. Casey Jr… intends to move as quickly as possible to grant soldiers more relief from the war zone, having argued that the troop rotations of 15 months in combat and 12 months at home — required by the buildup of U.S. forces in Iraq and the …
In the ArenaUncategorized
In all the foolish hype over the Ahmadinejad visit and the Petraeus testimony and all the other set-piece foriegn policy carnival shows of the past month, the dramatic and very positive movement of the Sarkozy government toward a less reflexively anti-American attitude has been pretty much lost. I’m looking for a transcript of Sarkozy’s …
Of that campaign “house party” that aims to raise at least $9.11 per person, a friend writes:
I guess it’s marginally better than asking for $2,974 from each guest…
We’ve discussed before why this is a fight President Bush is likely to regret having won–and why millions of uninsured children are likely to regret it even more. Now, with House passage of the children’s health insurance bill having fallen about two dozen votes short of a veto-proof majority, it appears the bill is indeed headed for …
John Edwards has been ardently courting the health care workers union, whose endorsement is one of the biggest prizes in Democratic politics. And he got big points with SEIU leaders for being the first major candidate in the Democratic field to come up with a comprehensive health care reform plan that would reach universal coverage. Its …
At least, the Republican National Committee doesn’t think so. The RNC blast-emailed a solicitation to party members across the country a little while ago in the form of a letter from the incumbent president and nominal head of the party. “In just over 13 months, Americans go to the polls to elect the next President,” Bush writes in his …
A worthy and particularly medium-appropriate blogger challenge from the folks at Pollster.com: The Disclosure Project.
Starting today we will begin to formally request answers to a limited but fundamental set of methodological questions for every public poll asking about the primary election released in, for now, a limited set of
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I’m gonna beat our commenters to the punch on this one: That Brooks column got Glenn Greenwald’s underpants in a particularly high and mighty twist.*
Of course, Brooks’ entire column is factually false. That’s why he does not cite any polling data, because it shows the exact opposite of everything he says. Most Americans want and have
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David Brooks takes after the Netroots in his column today in the New York Times, arguing that Hillary Clinton’s commanding position in the primary proves that the internet-driven hordes on the left are not nearly so influential in the Democratic Party as we all thought. Clintonism and the DLC still hold sway over the party, he says, and …
