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I’ve been bumped from the Colbert Report because of a Stephen Colbert cast-related medical emergency. Rescheduled for September.
UPDATE: I did tape a shocking bombshell of an interview with Colbert last night. It has been held until September–allegedly–because of the storm of protest that will ensue when it airs and also because …
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Yes, the rumor is true. I’ll be filleted on the Colbert Report tonight.
A few weeks ago, Mitt Romney said he supports adding an anti-abortion amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as called for in the Republican Platform. Now he says he would allow individual states to determine for themselves what to do about abortion. Another flip-flop? That’s how it looks to ABC News and to the Washington Post.
But the …
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In which the next stage of the war in Iraq is discussed.
TIME Assistant Managing Editor/Swampland Intern Michael Duffy (Have we mentioned he’s a best-selling author?*) wants to know:
I’m just an intern here, but here’s what I’m curious about this morning: Has Fred Thompson picked a date to get into the race yet? I gather he has agreed to a debate in New Hampshire in September and perhaps a
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In the new issue of dead-tree TIME, my Washington Bureau colleague Amanda Ripley takes an in-depth look at GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani’s chief selling point in his 2008 campaign for the White House, and finds that it isn’t entirely what it’s advertised to be. She writes in part:
This much is indisputable: Giuliani knows what it means
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This article in the Washington Post about how Democrats are “recalibrating” their position on Iraq given the “good news” coming out of Iraq is extremely depressing. It betrays a dangerously low level of knowledge about the situation on the ground in Iraq.
First of all, Hillary Clinton was absolutely right when she told the VFW:
“We’ve
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to the VFW today represents a new demagogic low, even for him.
The notion that the non-nation of Iraq, a colonial contraption cobbled together from disparate provinces of the Ottoman Empire by the British in 1918, can in any way be compared to the deeply homogenous Asian countries of Japan, Korea and Vietnam is so foolish–and purposely …
Should the networks and interest groups that have been sponsoring the seemingly endless series of debates and candidate forums start limiting their invitations to those contenders who seem, by whatever definition, “viable”? Having so many candidates onstage fighting for air time does make it harder to come up with any format that goes …
After all these months of rejecting comparisons between Vietnam and Iraq, President Bush now embraces them:
“Three decades later, there is a legitimate debate about how we got into the Vietnam War and how we left,” Mr. Bush said. “Whatever your position in that debate, one unmistakable legacy of Vietnam is that the price of America’s
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Close observers of this space may have noticed that we’re a little short-handed in the Swamp this week. And judging from some of the comments that have been getting past the content filter, the High Sheriffs are all passed-out drunk again. So with no one to stop me, I have hired Assistant Managing Editor and best-selling author Michael …
As frequent Swampland commenter Cfaller96 loves to remind me, I predicted here that the August congressional recess would be a difficult time for Republicans, because they would be returning to their districts to face voters who were furious over the Iraq war. But if this morning’s Washington Post is right, the exact opposite has …
Today must be Pile-on-New-York (and, by extension, its former Mayor) Day for Republican presidential contenders. After Mitt Romney takes after New York City (and, by extension, its former Mayor) on immigration, Fred Thompson blogs about the city’s (and, by extension, its former Mayor’s) affinity for gun control:
Anybody who knows me
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