Gov. Tim Pawlenty remains at the bottom of the barrel among presidential hopefuls, according to a new Washington Post poll of Republican and Republican-leaning voters.
First, U.S. Sen. Al Franken wouldn’t stand to meet billionaire T. Boone Pickens. Then he got into it with the latter-day domestic-energy guru — “a lively conversation” were Franken spokeswoman Jess McIntosh’s words — over Pickens having…
“You really can’t start a transition until you’ve been elected president.” Those words of advice were offered to George W. Bush on TV Nov. 28, 2000, two weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore made…
The Bush “torture memos” that Obama released yesterday owe a heavy literary debt to George Orwell’s novel “1984.” The most blatant rip-off is the government’s now-famous plan to sic insects on captive Abu Zubaydah:
Cities aren’t their base, so Republicans in federal elective office generally don’t talk about urban affairs. In fact, they went so far as to delete the phrase from the name of the House Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs (now the…
The assessments of last night’s doomed economic pow-wow have not been kind to John McCain. Setting the table is The New York Times with a damning (and dryly amusing) description of McCain’s performance at the economic summit that…
The Washington Post has a couple of extraordinary excerpts from Barton Gellman’s new book about Dick Cheney, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. It’s a captivating read, detailing how the Vice President and his small cadre of allies drove…
While some expect U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann to embarrass herself, she had some help at the Republican state convention in Rochester this weekend. Former White House adviser Karl Rove…
On the eve of the day of Great Fools, the Bush Administration has given the “Great Depression” its second major media debut. News outlets are bandying about the words this morning after Treasury Secretary Henry…
“Just the facts, ma’am. Just the facts.”
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