I’m not entirely sure that tax cuts are what the country needs. But it makes sense for a Presidential candidate to propose them on April 15, which is exactly what John McCain has done today. This is part of his… Continue Reading
Appeals to party unity are always pretty much pure bullshit. So why is John McCain asking his supporters to raise money for Rudy Giuliani? Really, he is. He wants Hizzonner to have retired all of his campaign debt so that… Continue Reading
If you’re only a casual follower of politics, you might have initially thought that remarks by Barack Obama to supporters at a campaign event in San Francisco were unremarkable. But if, like me, you get the bulk of your political… Continue Reading
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign manager was fired over the weekend after it was “revealed” that he had worked to advance a free-trade pact between Columbia and the United States, a pact which Senator Clinton herself opposes. That this middle-tier… Continue Reading
Yes, there are still Hillary Clinton supporters out there. It seems that most of the Democratic and Democratic-leaning blogs I read are pro-Obama in one way or another. But I got a little bit out of my usual rotation this… Continue Reading
The annual report from Citizens Against Government Waste identifies a total of not quite $17.2 billion dollars in unnecessary, unrequested Federal spending, attributing $10.2 billion of it to particular line items requested by individual legislators to benefit their own constituents.… Continue Reading
Political rules junkies will love this. It gets astonishingly intricate. Read the comments — Dean’s selection to this committee was already made months ago, and they’re all superdelegates already. It basically comes down to whoever has the most pledged delegates… Continue Reading
Überfrau Hillary Clinton has always had the advantage of what I’ve periodically called the “inside game” — the lists of fundraising sources grown since 1989 when Bill took over the Democratic Leadership Conference; the myriad of favors personally owed to… Continue Reading
A rabbi from a conservative congregation asks (and answers) a relatively simple question: What would you say… to an 80-year-old Holocaust survivor who was unmoving in his conviction that all Germans were evil? What would you say to this person,… Continue Reading
Slate opens up the deathwatch with a great graphic of Hillary on the bow of a sinking Titanic, and sets her odds of getting the nomination at 12%. This is the sort of thing that really moves copy — it’s… Continue Reading