Karl Rove is leaving the White House to spend more time orchestrating a whispering campaign against his family.
UPDATE: Sure, it’s tempting to speculate that Rove is leaving because, finally, there’s some kind of investigation (just reach into the Congressional Record and pick one) that’s made his stay at the White House untenable. …
The Governor, Secretary of State and Democratic Party chairman in Iowa decide it’s time to stop the madness, though it still looks like Iowa voters will be going to the caucuses about the time they are taking their Christmas trees to the curb:
Governor Chet Culver and IDP Chair Scott Brennan Certify
Friday, August 10, 2007
Des Moines
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Comes to us by way of TPM Muckraker.
Speaking of Iowa, I spent a day there this week with America’s Mayor (who won’t be around for the straw poll this weekend) and found out what happens when you take the boy out of the city.
After dead-tree TIME went to press, Rudy made real news in Ohio, with this statement:
“I was at ground zero as often, if not more, than most of
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Having spent a kabajillion dollars in Iowa on the Straw Poll so far (including thousands on air conditioned buses to cart citizens to Ames), Romney is now trying to convince reporters that the Ames Straw Poll is not big deal. And, you know what, it’s not even like it counts! Hardly anyone’s going to be there and maybe we should all just …
I wrote an item in the new print issue of Time about the “FISA modernization” bill that passed and how it’s likely to remain law through the end of this president’s term and beyond, despite the sunset provision. Even if President Bush’s successor is a Democrat, he or she will likely face enormous political pressure — from Republicans …
• The most helpful advice for those seeking to make sense of last night’s LOGO forum (aka “the gay debate”): “It’s helpful to look at this debate through two lenses: the hopeful lens of the gay community and the skeptical lens of the pundit who is always peering around the corner at the general election,” and a skeptical look at how …
In theory, I would praise any technology that would keep me from having to listen to Pearl Jam. But I suppose this goes too far.
UPDATE:Oh please. I like music, just not the fey faux heavy metal earnestness of the Pearl Jam. THE Jam, that’s a different story. And while Arcade Fire is okay, for shoe-gazing purposes I prefer the likes of …
As I wrote, the call was intended to give a preview how Edwards will approach tonight’s forum centered on Lesbian/Gay/Bi/Transgender issues. I think the opening statements from Eric Sterns and Steven Handwerk, two Stonewall Democrat leaders who are advising the campaign, laid out Edwards’ strategy clearly: Both of them focused on how …
I believe in the usefulness and validity of the telling anecdote — the seemingly small story that reveals a broader truth about a politician or other subject. But sometimes anecdotes are misused — usually to sling mud. Such is the case with this piece about John Edwards by the editorial page editor of The State, South Carolina’s …
Some of the buzz in the air in Washington today stems from this* essay in The Atlantic by former Bush speechwriter Matthew Scully, in which he unloads a powerful round of behind-the-scenes anecdotage to cut the ground out from underneath his WH colleague, Michael Gerson. Scully neatly deconstructs Gerson’s manipulation of the press and …
On a call previewing tonight’s LGBT forum, an Edwards adviser just said that he’s not worried about the fact that Edwards is not for gay marriage because, if elected, “we will have a first lady in Elizabeth Edwards who will be our lobbyist.”
I don’t think this was in the talking points.
UPDATE: I’ll take it as a given that the …
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“I haven’t seen Congress say [Alberto Gonzales has] done anything wrong…Why would I hold someone accountable who’s done nothing wrong?”
