by Lee Stranahan This New York Times articles about the shock ex-Clinton aides are getting at how much the White House has changed in eight years of W has a slew of interesting stuff in it, such as ...
Author - Bob Cesca
Bill Richardson Thoughts
I'm still wrapping my head around the Commerce post for Richardson. On the surface, it looks like a Glengarry Glen Ross award: first place is a Cadillac, second place is a set of steak knives (third...
Prediction
Republicans won't be using the words "up or down vote" as much as they used to. In other words: not at all. The question is whether the White House and the congressional Democrats will embrace the...
Morning Awesome
Goodie Bag - "I Love Progress Bars"
Your Moment Of Wingnuttery
By Lee Stranafnord In case you haven't been following what would be the biggest story in political history, here's a recent open letter to Mr. Barack Obama about his alleged 'birth'. (Note: It's not...
Great Medical Marijuana Non-decision
by California Resident Lee Stranahan Seldom have I been so happy to see the Supreme Court do nothing.... The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a landmark decision today in which California state...
Staggeringly Crazy
New Nixon Tapes! -- On July 1, 1971, Nixon instructs Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman to have someone break into the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.: "I can't have a high-minded lawyer ... I...
The Dumb Stupids Award
Goes to the several Republican governors who apparently argued with the president-elect in a private session today -- warning him to not run up the deficit. This according to Governor Rendell on...
Martin Loses Run Off in Georgia
NBC calls it for Chambliss. So why couldn't Barack Obama close the deal? He never closes deals and it's all his fault!
Gates Of Hell
I tend to agree with David Corn on his worrisome evaluation of the retention of Robert Gates at DoD. While I can see the political up-side, I don't think it's enough to balance out the potential for...
Prime Time Thread
Open thread for documenting the nightly processional of cable news hackery. Tonight! I'm really hoping for 60, but I think it's going to be 58.
The Other Page
CESCA'S TAKE -- Five easily-predictable things Mark Halperin will ask us to "watch for" tomorrow in his PageCast: 1. Watch for the real world economy to do something unexpected or not. 2. Watch for...
The Big Ideological Shift
Jed on conservative praise for Secretary-designate Clinton: In 1998, they were impeaching Bill Clinton. Now they are claiming Hillary as one of their own. The center has shifted....to the left. So...
MSNBC Isn't The Liberal Fox News
The Daily Show bit here. Okay, so I get that they both deal in lowest common denominator news and disaster coverage and, naturally, there's the usual cable news hackery. In a realistic sense, though...
Poll-Chasm: Obama's Cabinet
from Stranahan These results are based on a one-night USA Today/Gallup reaction poll conducted Dec. 1, just after Obama announced his national security team... 69% approve of Hillary for Secretary of...
Wither TypePad
I've turned off TypePad authentication for comments, so no more log-in problems. To compensate, I've cranked up the junk filters, so, for example, if you post more than two hyperlinks in a comment...
Does David Sirota Know What 'Rivals' Means?
by Lee Stranahan To oppose or compete with... I like David Sirota but the handwringing over the Obama cabinet as evidenced in his new HuffPost article is becoming a bit much.
Lance Will Ride
It's confirmed: Lance Armstrong will ride in the 2009 Tour de France, marking the first time he will compete in that race and the Giro d'Italia in the same year. But don't expect him to win this one...
Failure of Intelligence
As Sargent writes, the establishment media is enabling the president's ridiculous, "I don't know -- the biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq," excuse...
Karl Rove Likes Things
by Lee Stranahan My newest piece at The Huffington Post is right here. That's a hint, by the way.