Romney spokesdude Kevin Madden called yesterday to attempt to clarify the Governer’s remarkable assertion about lather-rinse-repeat marriages in France. He said that what Romney had intended to refer to was the French version of civil unions, called “PaCs” from “pacte civil de solidarite.”
A rush transcript:
ME: And they last …
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The Washington Post is positing September as the decision point on Iraq. Maybe…but the more interesting news here is the proposed House funding legislation which I think is quite clever:
House Democratic leaders are coming together around legislation that would fund the war through September but would withhold more than half of those
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For the second day this week Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) is focusing his campaigning outside the Iowa-New Hampshire-South Carolina-Nevada primary bubble, but this time is doesn’t look like he’s searching for an endorsement. Obama is heading to Richmond, Virginia tonight …
Romney this weekend:
“It seems that Europe leads Americans in this way of thinking,” Romney told the crowd of more than 5,000. “In France, for instance, I’m told that marriage is now frequently contracted in seven-year terms where either party may move on when their term is up. How shallow and how different from the Europe of the …
And so, in the continuing tale of woe that is the Republican Party’s search for a savior who can lead it back to the Promised Land of electoral success, Bob Novak has pronounced Fred Thompson lacking in that essential quality any would-be GOP savior must possess — Ronald Reaganness. It would be tempting to slag the media for tritely …
With Sunday’s elections, conservatives are suddenly … discovering … they … love France.
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Just finished reading The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid, a strange, haunting, slightly creepy and entirely memorable book. And it occurred to me that ever since 9/11 I’ve been reading an awful lot of novels by middle eastern authors. In fact, five of the last six novels I’ve read have been about the region, which qualifies as …
Meet the new boss, same as…
“A surprising number … who watched the entire 90 minutes still could not recognize the candidates. I said it was a shame they didn’t put the names on the screen.”
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The Republican debate next week features the same 90 minute, 10-candidate lineup as last week in California. South Carolina GOP
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Ana, please cut Sally Quinn some slack. It can be very hard to see when you are wearing a gas mask.
Barack Obama is black. No, seriously, he is.
Washington Post is ALL OVER this story.
Almost makes you long for the days when he wasn’t black enough.
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Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) stretches outside of the New Hampshire-Iowa-South Carolina-Nevada bubble that most of the candidates are focused on and instead visits Michigan for the first time today. He’ll address a sold-out crowd at the Detroit Economic Club’s luncheon at …
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This is a terrific piece by Ezra (No Relation But Sometimes Called The Good) Klein about what other countries, including the “country” of our own VA system, do about health care.
A caveat from the Not-So-Good Klein, though: services as basic as health care systems, even our own non-system, are pretty much cast in stone–dynamite or a …
Can’t. Get. Enough!!!
Our new colleague Mark Halperin judges the contenders, Simon-Cowell style. His new spark may surprise you.
A note: I’m sort of flabbergasted by the love Mitt’s getting from the media. I thought he did, you know, okay. He didn’t commit a gaffe on the level of bin Laden/varmints/Battlefield Earth. But is being …
