Posts by Eric Black
Blamefest: A Glimpse of a State-of-the-Art Media Campaign
Here’s a tiny glimpse into the current state-of-the-art media campaign.
As the Mitt Romney campaign tries to slow down Mike Huckabee’s surge in Iowa, they have long since begun issuing harsh criticisms of Huckabee’s past actions and statements.…
Bachmann shakeup: Julie Quist to run Minnesota office, three staffers departing
The staff of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann is in the midst of a significant shakeup, with major departures from both the Washington and Minnesota offices, and a controversial social conservative taking over Bachmann’s Minnesota operations.
Rich Dunn, the…
Huckabee Surges to New Heights in Iowa
A Newsweek poll out Friday afternoon had the GOP race among likely Iowa caucus goers:
- Mike Huckabee: 39 percent
- Mitt Romney: 17
- Fred Thompson: 10
- Rudy Giuliani: 9
- Ron Paul: 8
- John McCain: 6
If…
Bush’s Clintonian Parsing
As I see people compiling lists of things President Bush and Vice President Cheney said about Iran — after they had been alerted by their intelligence chief of new evidence that an Iranian nuclear weapons program had halted…
How (and Why) Norm Coleman Got Rachel Paulose Appointed
Sen. Norm Coleman sponsored the appointment of U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose, who recently announced her resignation from that post after a very rocky tenure. He now acknowledges that her lack of experience…
On Vetoes, Iran and World War III: Bush’s Press Conference
President Bush seems to be saying that yesterday’s big news that U.S. intelligence now believes Iran is not actively developing a nuclear bomb doesn’t affect his policy. I didn’t hear anything specific that might signal whether the…
“Fundamental Dishonesty”: Franken Responds to Coleman Attack
The Al Franken for Senate campaign put out a two-paragraph response yesterday afternoon to the Coleman campaign’s video attacking Franken for his changing positions on various aspects of the Iraq War. Here’s the full…
U.S. Intelligence: Iran Isn’t Working on a Bomb
The National Intelligence Estimate on the subject, representing the consensus of 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, is that Iran halted weapons development in 2003, probably couldn’t process enough fuel for a bomb until the middle of the next decade,…
