Schultz Report

This week in the Schultz Report, we discuss the only issue that matters at the moment–the financial meltdown on Wall Street and the Paulson plan that’s currently being bum-rushed through Congress, which would give the US Treasury secretary absolutely unprecedented power to buy up bad debt with public dollars, and without any public oversight or future public benefit in the form of equity in the companies we’re bailing out.

Today David Schultz and I talk about the dramatic conclusion Barack Obama’s speech brought to the Democratic convention in Denver. All in all, he says, it capped a week in which all the major Democrats featured at DNC said and did the right things. “The Democrats did well,” says Schultz. “Obama may have recaptured the [...]

In this edition of the Schultz Report audiocast–and we’ll have another tomorrow, after Barack Obama’s Democratic convention-closing speech in Denver tonight–we examine developments at this week’s DNC. Hamline University political science prof and Minnesota politics analyst David Schultz gives the Democrats mixed grades for their handling of the party’s quadrennial infomercial. “The convention in some [...]

This week, as the political news cycle takes a back seat to the Olympics and most federal campaigns take advantage of the chance to lie low and catch a breath, politics analyst David Schultz and I turn to a couple of emergent themes in the McCain campaign — the growing signs that McCain’s managers are [...]

In this week’s audiocast, we take a step back from the droppings of the daily news cycle to discuss some of the reasons Barack Obama’s campaign has been foundering in national head-to-head polling against John McCain for some time now. By political analyst David Schultz’s reckoning, the sources of Obama’s troubles include the attack rhetoric [...]

In this week’s Schultz Report, we talk foreign policy and the presidential campaign, reviewing Barack Obama’s weekend trip to the Middle East and John McCain’s verbal excursion to the non-existent Iraq-Pakistan border; we discuss the fundraising picture in the Third District US House race to replace retiring Republican Rep. Jim Ramstad; and we start things [...]

In this week’s audiocast, Minnesota politics analyst and Hamline University prof David Schultz reviews a flurry of recent developments in the Minnesota US Senate race — Jesse Ventura’s five minutes back in the spotlight; Al Franken’s new Democratic primary challenger, Priscilla Lord Faris; likely Independence Party candidate Dean Barkley; and a pair of diametrically opposed [...]

Today’s Schultz Report begins with a review of the public pillorying of Wes Clark last week for daring suggest that being a POW and a war hero did not qualify John McCain to be president–a fairly terrifying little spectacle in which Clark’s words were transmuted by “reporters” as well as chatterers into a wholesale attack [...]