In President Bush’s news conference today, he cited security concerns in dodging a question on the former Deputy AG’s dramatic showdown-at-the-hospital account:
PRESIDENT BUSH: Kelly, there’s a lot of speculation about what happened and what didn’t happen; I’m not going to talk about it. It’s a very sensitive program. I will tell you
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Eric Pooley’s exceedingly good profile of Al Gore, as well an excerpt from the not-a-candidate’s new book.
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In which the Republican debate is discussed.
Both TNR’s The Plank and Wonkette have comment threads devoted to suggesting alternative — and more appropriate — choices for Clinton’s “Choose Our Campaign Theme Song” poll. The official choices include Dixie Chicks, Jesus Jones, and the Smash Mouth cover of “I’m a Believer.” (Between this and the text-messaging gimmick she announced …
The missing sidebar to Karen’s cover story on the Mittster.
Today on the Trail is a listing of notable campaign events. It is digested and reconstituted by the Swampland Intern.
Today’s busiest candidate is John McCain, who’s combining his daughter’s graduation from Columbia University with a fundraising spree that ranges from a low-dollar “Young Professionals” event — co-hosted with …
Peter Swire at Think Progress finds some 2006 Gonzales testimony regarding the NSA wiretap program that’s looking a tad, um, inconvenient at the moment:
GONZALES: Senator, here is a response that I feel that I can give with respect to recent speculation or stories about disagreements. There has not been any serious disagreement,
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Why do I have the feeling that all those pundits who swooned over Giuliani’s ferret moment last night (with Ron Paul, fittingly, in the role of the ferret) will wake up sometime this afternoon and hurriedly search for their high heels and party dress, hoping to slink unnoticed past the RA’s room before someone catches them? Sure, it was …
Today on the Trail is a compendium of notable campaign events. It is pulled together by the faceless Swampland Intern in exchange for scraps of bread.
Almost-candidate Chuck Hagel discusses “America’s Role In The World” at the Center for National Policy in Washington.
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Edwards & Bill Richardson meet …
This just in* from the conservative guru who pioneered direct-mail fundraising:
“If the Republican Party nominates Rudy Giuliani as its candidate for either president or vice president, I will personally work to defeat the GOP ticket in 2008,” says Richard A. Viguerie, author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big
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This is all too believable, but it needs some further explanation.
First, as many of you may be aware, I favor the NSA’s data-mining operation. As I understand it, it works like this: it’s a front-end computer program that is used to detect patterns of phone calls or emails coming into the US from known terror suspects overseas. If we …
Sean Hannity just referred to how “we can’t really define torture,” except, of course, when it comes to “cutting off of limbs.”
Glad we can agree on that.
PS: RON PAUL just won the text message poll. The GOP’s Sanjaya!
The idea that Sean Hannity is posing as someone fit to judge the rhetorical styles of others, let alone their logic, is offensive to those of us who can construct a sentence that doesn’t include the words “Hannitized!”
I advise those who can to start drinking now.
Blogging to begin at 9pm. (Or, you know, now.)
8:51 PM: Scene-setting …
