There is an apple tree in my parents’ backyard. Its bark is blackened, limbs reaching unevenly and feebly into the sky. If an art-house filmmaker needed a metaphor for resilience in a war-ravaged country, he would choose this tree. It looks like it’s growing in spite of something, straining against…
When Talking Points Memo is calling him the "poster child for the angry Left" and tweaking him in headlines—"That poll is bogus. I'm totally winning."— surely some of the shine has worn off this lefty Internet folk hero.
Rick Sanchez is the host of CNN's "Rick's List" and the author of newly released "Conventional Idiocy: Why New America is Sick of Old Politics."
So great are the powers of nefarious, progress-blocking Republicans that even in the vast congressional minority they can hold hostage bills that do not even exist:
So great are the powers of nefarious, progress-blocking Republicans that even in the vast Congressional majority, they can hold hostage bills that do not even exist:
The rumor is he'll be campaigning for mayor of Chicago by Monday:
Obama, to Rolling Stone, in an interview released yesterday:
Bill Clinton channels Friedrich Hayek.
It turns out smearing your mainstream Republican, Baptist opponent as Talibanesque by altering video of him doesn't play that well in a moderate House district or among Independents.
President Obama will hold a rally in deep-blue Madison, Wisconsin today in an attempt to rally one of his most enthusiastic voting blocs from 2008. But as the president tries to fire up young voters, recent polling shows they're increasingly cool on the president's policies.
It's about as predictable as Alan Grayson airing a hateful, dishonest ad caricaturing conservatives, but alas, it's news because the president said it. The headline at CNN gets right down to the nub of Obama's criticism in a way that's a bit more explicit and creepy than coverage of his past…
This is a tale in which we learn that becoming a folk hero for the online left, under the guidance of former MyDD scribe Matt Stoller, does not necessarily endear one to a center-right district that went Democrat for the first time in 25 years in 2008.
The San Francisco Chronicle doesn't endorse Boxer.
Here is video of comedian Stephen Colbert testifying before the House Judiciary subcommittee at the request of Democratic Rep. Zoe Lofgren, on the subject of illegal migrant workers. The pretense for his being an expert witness was Colbert's one day laboring with migrant workers in New York.
The GOP will officially release its modern Contract With America today at an event in Sterling, Va., but the commentary on the 21-page document is already plentiful.
"Just eight months after taking office, Mr. Christie is in demand by Republican candidates across the country, political consultants say, receiving many more invitations than he can accept. His appearances with Ms. Whitman are the first of many he has scheduled over the coming weeks, including…
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who has launched a write-in bid for reelection after being beaten by Tea Party favorite Joe Miller in the Alaska Republican primary, will lose her committee position tomorrow, according to Senate Republicans:
Hey, how come no one's talking about what's happening to Molly Norris?
The Florida Democratic Party sent out a mailer this week that disclosed the Social Security number of a Tea Party favorite in Florida's 22nd District race.
Because demonizing the populist movement has been so successful thus far, Obama aides may be thinking about a national TV ad campaign to rally the base with the idea of zombie Christine O'Donnells...or something.
Lefty activist: Chris Coons harrassed me for my political activism
I bought an accordion coupon organizer last week. It’s a wallet-sized device that straps to the cart as you’re grocery shopping. It comes with 24 durable tab dividers, to prevent the coupons for meat, dairy, and Hannah Montana paper dishware from commingling.
Jeri Thompson, a political commentator I admire and wife of former Sen. Fred Thompson, wrote a column for "The American Spectator" this week suggesting anyone skeptical of Christine O'Donnell is skeptical because they're sexist, boys-club types afraid of strong, anti-establishment women.
"This fact marks our political age: The pendulum is swinging faster and in shorter arcs than it ever has in our lifetimes. Few foresaw the earthquake of 2008 in 2006. No board-certified political professional predicted, on Election Day 2008, what happened in 2009-10."
Cook giveth and Cook taketh away.
Last month, everyone was wondering if the First Lady, whose approval numbers are higher than Obama's at 66 percent, would take to the campaign trail for Democrats. That popularity has been the work of 18 months of carefully crafted messages and feel-good issues.
Greg Mankiw answers, "How much would the president actually raise the top tax rate?"
Well, this is odd... and quite helpful to Christine O'Donnell's message when facing Coons:
The country's first primary state was hardly first with its returns last night, as glacial vote-counting in New Hampshire had Republican Senate candidates Kelly Ayotte and Ovide Lamontagne unsure of the outcome of their close race until this morning.
Well, well, well, Charlie Cook. Maybe you'd like to retract some of your earlier projections for a Republican tidal wave? Because Democrats are about to design their way to victory!
The state of Delaware is posting election results here.
As the Republican primary for the Senate seat from Delaware manages to become even more heated than it's been thus far, the newest charge of O'Donnell backers is that Rep. Mike Castle voted to impeach President George W. Bush.
McConnell introduces that Tax Hike Prevention Act of 2010.
When we last saw seven-term Congressman Bob Etheridge of North Carolina, he was helping a young man with a video camera understand that American voters must be prepared to explain themselves to elected officials before asking questions of them in public. The fact that he helped the young man…
Sen. Joe Lieberman joined former Obama budget director Peter Orszag in calling for a temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts today when he spoke at a Connecticut Chamber of Commerce meeting:
Change: "Two years after arriving in Washington on a message of hope and change, Democratic candidates are not extolling their party’s accomplishments, but rather distancing themselves from their party’s agenda."
Alas, I wish there were more press conferences for me to synopsize, but the president being who he is, we must satisfy ourselves with what we have. What we have today is an hour-and-17 minute press conference in which he took 22 questions, stuttered no fewer than five times, and laughed…
In an interview with Tom Joyner this morning, it seems the president debuted a new vaguely violent automotive metaphor for the ailing economy. Until now, the economy has been a mere car that Republicans had piloted into a ditch, and which Obama was valiantly if unsuccessfully trying to get running…
In my head, when I picture the relationship between Barack Obama and Joe Biden, this is what I see.
You may remember that for a brief time, singer Wyclef Jean flirted with the idea of running for president of Haiti, citing as his qualifications the fact that he is Haitian, knows Shakira, and put out that awesome solo album in '98.
President Obama avoided being "perfectly clear" today about whether he would veto an extension of all the Bush tax cuts if it came to his desk. The president's preferred course is to raise the current tax rate for the wealthy and leave it as is for the middle class. In an inventive rhetorical…
Axe: Rahm has the skill set to be mayor of Chicago. In what one imagines would be the words of Rahm, "No &*%%^!, Sherlock."
Assuring everyone that they're unwilling to listen to economic reason, even from the man employed as their budget director a month ago, the White House spokespeople were sent forth this morning to refute the former OMB director's inaugural New York Times column.
Freshman Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska), who beat Ted Stevens in 2008, says the national party shouldn't be counting out Lisa Murkowski's seat in his home state. They just need a little faith:
How could the Obama administration have miscalculated the economic trajectory of the summer so badly as to have given them what some have called the biggest premature victory declaration since the USS Abraham Lincoln?
"They talk about me like a dog." (To be fair, Bo's gotten better press than anyone in Washington for two years, so maybe he didn't mean it in a bad way.)
WEEKLY STANDARD writer Steve Hayes got plenty of attention from White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs today, who used his Twitter account to carry on a long back-and-forth with Hayes over the small business bill the White House has been touting this week, but which stalled in the Senate earlier…
Well, this is heartening:
It's 80 miles south of Vermillion Bay in the Gulf Mexico. Early reports called it an explosion, but later reports call it a fire. Robert Gibbs announced at the White House press briefing that the Mariner Energy platform was "not in active production" and the depth of the water at the site is about…
In this episode of "Better Know Your Democratic Governor," longtime Obama ally (and speech donor) Deval Patrick seems to commit a Kinsleyan gaffe when asked about the Glenn Beck rally held on the Mall August 28.
Christina Romer's full farewell speech.
Great breaking news from Silver Spring, MD, where a several-hour stand-off with a gunman holding hostages has ended with the hostages safe and the gunman shot and in custody.
Police and media are now identifying the gunman holding hostages at the Discovery Channel corporate headquarters as James Jay Lee.
This started popping up on Twitter a few minutes ago, and now Fox News is reporting there's a full SWAT team at the scene. The Washington Post has a short write-up with the scant details:
These ideological, impractical, probably racist mobs of Tea Partiers who understand nothing of politics and long to do nothing but obstruct...
Chris Matthews comes home. "[Obama] is almost pluperfect, and they don't like him!"
Nate Silver, the left-leaning statistician recently hired by the New York Times after running his own polling blog for several years, is warning Democrats not to dismiss the GOP generic ballot lead as a mere outlier.
Never before has there been such a candidate of integrity, moral certitude, and iron spine:
Newsweek turns on the president.
Uncertain whether the last 18 months of dismal health-care speeches and rallies had entirely destroyed the myth of the Obama administration as gifted, uplifting message mavens, Kathleen Sebelius bravely ventured into the rhetorical orchards and brought forth this rotten fruit:
Greetings from northern climes! I have been on the ship for about five days, and I believe we're traversing the St. Lawrence River at the moment on our way to Quebec City. This being my first cruise experience, I have enjoyed the intelligent conversations with our WEEKLY STANDARD cruisers, the…
I'll say this for 'em. Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel are not going out without a very public fight, bordering on Blagojevichian levels of boldness. Rangel took his case to the House floor this week, hijacking the get-together Pelosi planned to bail out the states and unions with a 37-minute…
I always like it when we can notch a win for the non-cheaters, even if it is 10 years too late. Earlier this spring, the International Olympic Committee disqualified the 2000 Chinese women's Olympic team for having an underaged competitor. China placed third in the Sydney Olympics, with the…
I look forward to the national media asking every New Hampshire Democrat and every leading national Democrat to denounce this sort of thing immediately. After all, words matter:
Maybe if Rory Reid weren't having to distance himself from his father to the point of forgoing his last name, Harry Reid would be more familiar with the idea of a Nevadan, Hispanic Republican. In his quest for the Nevada governorship, Rory Reid is getting trounced in polls at the moment by Brian…
The party of ideas, folks. After proclaiming that their skin color should prevent people of Hispanic descent from voting any which way they please, Reid isn't backing down:
Bennet and Buck bring home wins in Senate primary in Colorado.
Washington was hot today, and Democrats were tearing at each other's hair like a clatch of tween frenemies fighting for the front row at a Justin Bieber mall appearance.
In the wake of the death of Ted Stevens, "Alaskan of the Century" Sarah Palin pays tribute on her Facebook page:
Yep, Greg Gutfeld wants to open a gay bar in the property adjacent to the Ground Zero Mosque, as a celebration of tolerance.
California Rep. Maxine Waters has been formally charged by the House Ethics Committee with three ethics violations:
So desperate is the United States Congress to spend $26 billion to bail out state governments—ensuring state governments have no incentive to stay within budgets, so that we can bail them out repeatedly until the end of time— that they didn't even name the bill.
Keith Hennesey explains who advises the president on economics.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services says the Obama administration can't double-count Medicare savings as simultaneously paying for Obamacare and strengthening Medicare's future. The Congressional Budget Office says the administration can't double-count Medicare cuts.
What next for California's gay marriage case? The facts matter.
ABC was first to report at the end of July that at least some of the oil spewed by the Deep Horizon well seemed to be breaking up, evaporating, and dispersing on its own— so much so that cleaning crews were having trouble finding the slick.
Barack Obama, July 29: "The one thing that does frustrate me sometimes is the sense that we shouldn't be campaigning all the time. There is a time to campaign and then there is a time to govern. What we've tried to do over the last 20 months is to govern."
On the road to passing Obamacare, Democrats made it their business to dismiss the concerns of the majority of Americans who opposed the bill.
Obamacare mandate loses in Missouri referendum, 71.1-28.9. No worries It's not like it's a bellwether. Oh.
Ha: Obama finally finds a leader worth bowing to.
This week in The Weekly Standard, James Ceasar argues that "Barack Obama has accomplished a rare feat: The longer he holds office, the more he diminishes in stature." He has wandered far and frequently down the road to populism, Ceasar argues, thereby frittering away all the stature his lofty…
If only our representatives would be as steadfast in caring for every dollar of our money:
Five days after the House ethics committee charged Rep. Charlie Rangel with possible violations, and Rangel professed to be "looking forward" to fighting the charges in a public trial, the congressman is reportedly trying to do a last minute deal:
Bush, Bush, Bush!
Though he'll regretably be remembered most for his turn in Rolling Stone, we should not forget Gen. Stanley McChrystal's contributions to his country, the Army, and the conflict in Afghanistan.
I knew Obama's post-partisan promise would bear fruit some day. I'm happy to come together with my ideological foes in the simple, human recognition that "Special Comments" are totally blowhardy.
I don't know why y'all would think that a subcommittee on ethics not convened since James Traficant would worry Charlie Rangel. I guess 40 years in a safe Congressional seat makes a man supremely confident. Rangel told reporters yesterday, after a House committee revealed he would be charged with…
Journolistas even clam up in unison.
Rangel's lawyer tried to settle but was rebuffed. The man who writes the tax law you must follow:
I wrote yesterday that cries of racism without just cause and serious proof are damaging to the falsely accused, the political process, race relations, and those who suffer from actual racism. I was talking mostly about the left's cynical and frequent use of "racism" accusations to marginalize…
We are on Day Two of JournoList revelations at The Daily Caller.
Sarah Palin: An intolerable mistake on hallowed ground.
The FBI detonated a bomb in Pennsylvania made of the components Faisal Shahzad intended to use before he resorted to cheaper alternatives. In May, Shahzad left his SUV in the middle of Times Square, where it merely smoked instead of exploding:
If you ever had any doubt that the left's incessant cries of "racism" have become largely a cynical political ploy designed to marginalize and shut up political opponents, behold the birth of a racism accusation in all its naked glory as discussed on the infamous JournoList.
CNBC to Christina Romer: So, how many jobs has the stimulus actually created or saved? "It's very hard to say exactly—you don't know what the baseline is."
No reconciliation for Dems because they didn't pass a budget?
Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski showed up on "Morning Joe" today to hang another Carter analogy on Obama.
West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin is expected to pick his former general counsel Carte Goodwin to fill the late Sen. Robert Byrd's vacant seat until a special election can be held, likely this fall. The appointment of a close aide suggests once again that Manchin does indeed have his eyes on the seat.
The people and wildlife of the Gulf are getting a respite, at least for the moment, from the millions of gallons of oil that have been flowing into the Gulf of Mexico since April 20:
As a rule of thumb, when lauding the modern manufacturing made possible by the president's $900 billion stimulus package, it is wise not to use the theme song of a popular early-80s sitcom.
First Olbermann didn't know MSNBC was running a Twitter account for him and now this? So much for the tech-savvy libs.
One study calculates Toyota lost $250 million in brand equity (about 1/4 of what BP's lost in the oil spill) during the media and Congressional furor over its alleged problems with "sudden acceleration." But a new study, conducted by the federal government's National Highway Traffic Safety…
It's definitely going to take Obama's superior conflict management skills to smooth this over. Democrats are not-so-privately fuming over Robert Gibbs' admission on "Meet the Press" this week that Dems could lose the House.
Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, endangered Democrat of South Dakota, apparently didn't read Mark Halperin's March assessment of how dangerous opposing Obama's awesome health care bill could be.
Sadly, it is too late for any of us to meet Charlotte McCourt. The Nevada grandmother passed away this week at the age of 84 after a long illness. But it is not too late for Charlotte to tell everyone exactly how she feels.
CBS poll: 13 percent of Americans believe Obama policies have helped them; 52 percent believe he's spent too little time on the economy.
I can't help but feel there may be hope for the nation yet when progressives start getting nervous about what Democrats are saying on entitlements.
Shoe box bomb injures oil exec's wife. Darn violent Tea Partiers.
Who'da thunk it? The man who would not rest until the oil leak was stopped but has taken three vacations since it started, the man who spent a year pushing a giant health-care bill a majority of Americans vocally opposed, is now making Democrats look increasingly out of touch by pushing an…
Political prognositcator Charlie Cook, who last week wrote that a GOP hurricane might be on its way, has been pegged as more bullish than most on the GOP's November chances.
It reminds me of a quote attributed to Ansel Adams: "Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."
Sad: "Lance Armstrong said his hopes of Tour de France victory are finished after he struggled in the Alps and was caught up in three crashes during an eighth stage won by Andy Schleck of Luxembourg on Sunday."
File this away in your "Democrats embodying stereotypes of Republicans" folder, along with pro-impeachment Democrat Kesha Rogers of Texas. In Rep. Carolyn Maloney's Upper East Side district (NY-14), constituents who are employed by Wall Street are none too happy with the rhetoric out of Washington,…
Barbie's a libertarian!
The National Taxpayer Advocate Service, an independent body within the IRS meant to iron out taxpayer problems with IRS systems, said in a report today that the new health care bill has charged the agency with doing things it's not prepared to do:
Tragic: An 82-year-old man shoots at thieves stealing his truck. After being shot, they admit to stealing his truck, at which point the homeowner defending himself is charged with attempted murder and the admitted thieves are charged with...nothing.
To hear liberals tell it, the Citizens United decision unleashed a torrent of frightful, unregulated free political speech that will drown out the voices of regular citizens in favor of powerful and nefarious corporate forces.
Here's some anti-government violence from an out-of-control mob you won't hear much about, from Illinois:
Public servants: Teachers unions will avoid reforms if Washington keeps bailing them out.
I know it's less fun to blame the feds when Obama's in charge, HuffPost headline writers, but the folks actually using the force of law to keep media away from oil spill areas are not BP, but the Coast Guard, with support from the Obama administration.
Eric Holder v. Jan Brewer:
Well, I guess now we know why Kal Penn left the administration. It wasn't because he suddenly realized he'd given up a plum regular role on a top-rated network TV show for a wholly unfulfilling career as a flack for Obama administration policies, which— let's face it— didn't give him nearly the…
Three things the U.S. should do.
After the Supreme Court affirmed this week in McDonald v. Chicago that Second-Amendment rights for individuals do indeed apply even within a 25-mile radius of organic grocers and a liberal city council, Chicago Mayor Richard Daley went to work to subvert his constituents' newfound right to self…
Sakineh Mohammadie Ashtiani, a 42-year-old mother of two, confessed to the crime of adultery in 2006 after being subjected to 99 lashes. She later recanted her statement, but was found guilty despite the fact that there were no witnesses to her adultery, as is supposed to be required in the Iranian…
Err: "The Obama administration has not ruled out turning sick people away from an insurance program created by the new healthcare law to provide coverage for the uninsured."
Rasmussen, June 22, 2010:
Last week, Sarah Palin, a former vice presidential candidate for the Republican Party and grassroots darling who serves in no elected or official capacity, tweeted a link to a Thomas Sowell column that included a reference to Nazi tactics. Democrats were outraged that she seemingly endorsed the…
The BP CEO for Gulf Restoration will take questions live on YouTube this afternoon, if you'd like to submit some questions that aren't from emo teenagers and climate-change activists asking about cap-and-trade.
Smell that? Smells like redemption:
Today, 70 days into the oill spill in the Gulf, the U.S. accepted international assistance from 12 countries and foreign organizations to help with the mess.
A great week for the left. The JournoList archives have a price of $100K on them, and Markos Moulitsas is suing his pollster, who is in turn countersuing him! Now, back to your regularly scheduled programming about divisions within the right.
Joe Biden is in the Gulf today, and Bobby Jindal talked to NBC about his problems with federal response:
The hearing is being shown on all three cable nets right now, live, and is on CSPAN-3 and CSPAN.org.
Sure, it's easy to get blue about our blue-state friend when he flips to become the deciding vote on gigantic financial regulation reform with more unintended consequences than, well, the last giant piece of legislation with a bunch of blanks to be filled in at a later date by regulators.
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favor of individual gun rights today, striking down Chicago's 28-year-old handgun ban almost two years to the day after the Court struck down the D.C. gun ban.
The Senate loses its longest-serving member. Robert Byrd passed away at the age of 92.
Hope. Change. Technicalities:
The New York Times runs a lovely tribute to the late Manute Bol today. The affable 7'6" Dinka tribesman, formidable NBA shot-blocker, and activist died at 47 of kidney complications related to a rare skin disease he developed after his basketball career.
Facebook publicists announced today that President Barack Obama and pop performer Lady Gaga are running neck-and-neck to become the first living person with 10 million fans.
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Richard Socarides: Ted Olson's better on gay rights than Obama.
Ed Rendell has been dogged for months by rumors of a possible romantic relationship with a 40-year-old aide. A Philadelphia magazine reports on the rumors in an issue hitting newsstands Friday, but apparently finds no one who will go on the record, and no real concrete evidence.
The left on generals resigning during the Bush years...
Hamid Karzai, who had built a close relationship with Gen. Stanley McChrystal, releases this somewhat cool statement through a spokesman today:
The tone is respectful to McChrystal, but mindful of his breach. Obama takes the opportunity to reinforce the American commitment to victory in Afghanistan rather than back away from it. And, the speech is blissfully, only eight minutes long.
A 72-year-old Missouri man, David Jungerman, painted a message on the side of an 18-wheeler trailer and placed it on his farm land, within view of a high-traffic highway:
The Washington Post notes that the Republicans of South Carolina just elected an Indian-American governor and nominated Tim Scott, who is black, over Strom Thurmond's son for a Congressional seat he's expected to win. But never fear; Republicans are probably still big racists, which is what the…
When the going gets tough, the tough go to court. Isn't that the saying?
Well, the most glamorous power nerd after Barack Obama, of course. Office of Management and Budget head Peter Orszag is leaving the White House, Robert Gibbs confirmed in the White House press briefing today. He will be the first member of the Obama cabinet to leave the administration.
Hey, they were going to boycott the state of Arizona on account of its crackdown on illegal immigrants, which L.A. considers heavy-handed, potentially onerous to law-abiding citizens, and Big-Brother-ish, until the city realized it needed an Arizona company to help it run its red-light cameras. Hm.
Kesha Rogers won the Democratic nomination in a suburban Houston district (TX-22) on a platform of impeachment of Obama and colonization of Mars. A professional activist in the Lyndon LaRouche movement, she carries posters of Obama with a Hitler mustache and calls him a "Wall Street and London…
Baghdad
Remind me. Has the State Department ever had to issue a travel warning for the greater Topeka metro area due to potential violence from Tea Party protesters?
Another week, another documented example of physical violence by a protester, another instance in which the violence is not perpetrated by a conservative.
Today, a conference committee begins hashing out differences between the House and Senate visions for financial regulatory reform. As Congress begins deliberations on another sweeping overhaul of a complex national system with broad, international implications, one would hope they are well informed…
Political junkies, there are 37—that's right, 37—governor's races this fall, so in case you thought you were going to get by only boning up on House and Senate races, think again, kid. The stage had already been set for historic, err, change, due to the relatively small number of incumbents running:
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The international community may be determined to ignore videos clearly showing flotilla "peace activists" beating the mess out of IDF soldiers before they even hit the deck of the boat, but the rest of the world is tuning on on YouTube.
Finally: White House approves Jindal berm plan.
I noted earlier that it sure felt like Obama was spending very little of his speech today on his purported top priority— the oil spill in the Gulf. The transcript is below the fold (also here), but here are the totals:
Well, a lawyer has been deployed.
The laws being contested in Citizens United treated unions and corporations the same. The Citizens United decision treats unions and corporations the same. In fact, campaign finance law has attempted to treat unions and corporations the same for 43 years.
Rep. Artur Davis lost his bid to become the first black Democratic nominee for governor in Alabama Tuesday by a huge margin, falling to state Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks by 24 points.
Kirsten Powers: "Politics as usual" is not an acceptable excuse for Obama in l'affaire Sestak.
The Washington, D.C. region has two large counties—one in Virginia and one in Maryland— that offer a helpful snapshot of good and bad budgeting. The bottom line: Virginia law doesn't allow public employees to unionize, while a Maryland county's government is stocked entirely with Democrats looking…
"[T]oday the Moynihan Report is largely forgotten. Sadly, its predictions about the decline of the black family have proven largely correct."
I think Charles Krauthammer hits the nail on the head when he says the Gulf Oil spill is Obama's Katrina, but not for the reasons everyone's saying:
Real life or The Onion?
The man is a parody of himself. He's always on message. It's just never actually his party's message:
Dino Rossi, the Washington real-estate developer and former state senator who lost the controversial 2004 governor's race to Christine Gregoire by 133 votes, announced today he wants to take on Patty Murray for a spot in the U.S. Senate.
Dino Rossi, the Washington real-estate developer and former state senator who lost the controversial 2004 governor's race to Christine Gregoir by 133 votes, announced today he wants to take on Patty Murray for a spot in the U.S. Senate.
Wherefore art that famous temperament? "He needs to take a Valium before he comes in and talks to Republicans," Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., told reporters. "He's pretty thin-skinned."
You know, I think the administration's latest move on the border is reflective of a "troubling trend in our society." The plan is "fundamentally unfair," and "invites profiling."
Dick Blumenthal is finally saying what he should have said last week, sending an apology for his exaggerations about his Vietnam service to the Hartford Courant in Connecticut:
Somebody needs to reread the Cairo speech.
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Count this among the very few things an Obama speech has brought to fruition that I'm enthusiastically behind:
How much debt will be too much? "In the wake of the financial crisis and recession, Moody's Investors Service has brought new transparency to its sovereign ratings analysis — so much so that 2018 lights up as the year the U.S. could be in line for a downgrade if Congressional Budget Office…
Fighting within the party over two Democrats on the ballot —former Rep. Ed Case and state senator Colleen Hanabusa— has led national Democrats to abandon the race, "effectively ceding the race to Republicans and likely setting the party up for what could be their first special election loss of the…
The formal announcement came around 10 a.m. C-SPAN will have video of the nomination available, here, shortly.
Just 13 years after a famine that wiped out millions of its people and three years after a flood that aggravated frequent food shortages, caused by an authoritarian dictator who doesn't allow citizens to farm or sell food privately and has a history of rejecting international humanitarian aid, the…
“Something must be done. This is something. Therefore we must do it.”
Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and host of the Travel Channel's very popular "No Reservations" does not mince words about the possibility future overbearing salt regulation.
I could have told you this was coming as soon as the terrible news about the death of UVA student Yeardley Love broke.
A military jury in Norfolk, Va. acquitted the third and final Navy SEAL court martialed in connection with the alleged assault of an Iraqi suspected in the 2004 murders of four U.S. contractors in Fallujah.
Jobs numbers: 290K jobs added, 66K are temporary census jobs, unemployment up to 9.9 percent.
Robert Gibbs declined to answer repeated questions today about Obama's use of the offensive term, "teabagger" to refer to Tea Party activists, as reported in Jonathan Alter's new book, "The Promise: President Obama, Year One."
The Dow fell nearly 1,000 points today and MSNBC's Savannah Guthrie informed White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs of it at the daily press briefing. Her question was the first he had heard of it, and he answered the question with generalities about the "Treasury monitoring Europe and the Greek…
Small business owners and freelancers, meet your new administrative burden:
This did not save this morning, for some reason (probably user error), so here it is now. Apologies.
News is breaking from several sources that Rep. David Obey is planning to announce his retirement at a 1 p.m. press conference. A testament to how rough this cycle will be on incumbent Democrats, Obey has represented his district in Congress since 1969. He was elected two years before his…
Washington Post editor: “The web is a place where people want to come to the news of the day and developments in the political world and public policy from different vantage points, so you’re trying to offer people online a pretty robust smorgasbord,” by hiring a diverse group of liberal bloggers.…
There's been a controversial immigration law passed, sometimes violent protests in its wake. There's an oil slick the size of a Northeastern state making its way into the marshlands and beaches of the Gulf Coast, potentially ruining miles of coastline and thousands of livelihoods for a long time to…
Everyone's being hard on tween pop star Justin Bieber today because he's caught in an interview not knowing what the word, "German" means.
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg put his ignorance of the situation and the suspect to great use last night jumping to conclusions that might earn him a long-jump spot in the London Olympics if he decides not to put his dough toward a presidential run that year:
An FBI official says Faisal Shahzad was put on a no-fly list hours before his arrest, but he was apprehended on a flight he booked on the way to the airport and which he paid for in cash.
The Hawaii special election to replace Rep. Neil Abercrombie is an odd, winner-take-all, three-way election that will be decided via mail-in ballots due by May 22. The Republican underdog Charles Djou is polling up eight points in Obama's home state partly because there are two Democrats splitting…
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