Commenter Terrapin asks:
Karen – You dedicated a large amount of digital ink to the DNC as they attempted to bring order to the chaotic primary schedule. Here is what the RNC is up to.
Funny how the RNC is characterized as ‘laying down the law’ while the DNC gets a bunch of ‘what are they doing?’ What do you see as the differences?
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From the upcoming issue of the New York Times Magazine, by way of USA Today’s On Deadline blog, comes this endnote to the now-famous scene in John Ashcroft’s hospital room:
“Ashcroft, who looked like he was near death, sort of puffed up his chest,” Goldsmith recalls. “All of a sudden, energy and color came into his face, and he
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Robert Novak, who has had his finger on the pulse of the Republican Party since, roughly, the Lincoln-Douglas debates, declares in his latest column that “never before have I seen morale within the party so low.” Just when it seemed things couldn’t get worse for the GOP, Novak says, along came the Larry Craig embarrassment and John …
probably should not be counting on being named as a senior fellow at the Fantastic Freedom Institute, at least not after this story in today’s New York Times:
WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 — A previously undisclosed exchange of letters shows that President Bush was told in advance by his top Iraq envoy in May 2003 of a plan to “dissolve
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• Bush, enjoying his own private I-dunno: “If the kind of success we are now seeing continues, it will be possible to maintain the same level of security with fewer American forces.” [WhiteHouse.gov]
• Actual soldier’s perspective: “Personally, I think it’s a false representation…But what can I say? I’m just doing my job and don’t …
John Edwards picks up the endorsements of the Steelworkers and Mineworkers unions. The Steelworkers are particularly significant. Not only are they the nation’s largest private-sector industrial union, but they also are major players in Iowa Democratic politics.
George Bush rarely opens the window to his inner life. But this morning’s NYT has a front-page story about an interview Bush has given to family friend and fellow Texan Robert Draper, the author of “Dead Certain,” a new book about Bush’s presidency. In it, Bush talks about how he wants to spend his post-White House years:
First, Mr.
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Barack Obama and John Edwards have now taken the pledge. Chris Dodd, Bill Richardson and Joe Biden did it yesterday. The question now is, what will Hillary Clinton do?
None of the campaigns that I have talked to seem to have a very clear idea of what, precisely, they have agreed to. The pledge is that they will not “campaign or …
Having failed thus far to corral Florida and Michigan behind the Feb. 5 “window,” Democratic officials from Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina are putting new pressure on the candidates themselves to bring “this uncertainty (and potential chaos) to an end” by refusing to campaign in those states. The state officials are …
Not exactly unexpected, but just about the last thing the Republicans needed at the moment. It puts Virginia very much in play for the Democrats, especially if the enormously popular former Governor Mark-No-Relation-to-John Warner decides to run for Warner’s Senate seat. And as we have noted before, the map was already a very difficult …
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Peter Wehner, former White House propagandist and now a fellow at the “Ethics and Public Policy Center” is worried that the long-term impact of the Larry Craig affair will be to
“make those who are perceived as holding ‘moralistic’ views more hesitant to speak out on moral matters. “
Well, I certainly hope so–especially those who …
I was following Elizabeth Edwards today in New Hampshire, and got a chance to hear her talk about her conscription into the Mommy Wars. So now that I’ve come home, set my suitcase in the hall, helped one Swampkid with his high school Spanish homework, watched a television show with the Fifth Grader who claimed (as he always does) that …
