Garance Franke-Ruta

After the contentious Iran and Social Security debates, the retreat to wonkitude must come as a relief. Clinton supports “a crash program on weatherization.” Bill Richardson name-checks the Apollo program. Chris Dodd thinks “the corporate carbon tax” is critical, despite the hardships it may cause. –Garance Franke-Ruta

Joe Biden says he’s not running against Clinton, but to be the leader of the free world, then makes the toughest, most direct case against Rudy Giuliani by any candidate on the stage, while still managing to get in a few jokes and laughs from the audience. “This man is truly not qualified to be […]

OK, this is now everybody — and I do mean everybody — against Clinton. It makes her look brave for just standing there, this small determined woman being attacked by three men on either side of her, two male moderators, and the entire male Republican field. Each of the critics on his own would be […]

Brian Williams wastes no time getting down to business, asking Barack Obama about his recent criticisms of Hillary Clinton. Obama responds nervously, with some sports story that neither I nor Dana got (go women’s vote!) and making a stream of accusations against Clinton, including a slightly confused story about her Iraq war vote, when it […]

This is an interesting discussion because it reveals just how little insight certain Republicans have into the thinking of the Democratic presidential candidates. It is the informed conventional wisdom of those who cover the campaigns that neither Clinton nor Obama will be seeking additional demographic diversity on their tickets, and instead will both most likely […]

Kate Sheppard asserts that this story is a dispute over environmental policy, and I’m sure there’s something there, but I think she’s missing the other part of it, which is that it’s also a campaign finance story in a year when two of the top Democratic presidential campaigns have been prominently pointing to their positions […]

New anti-Hillary Clinton PAC president Glenn Hurowitz of DemocraticCourage.com has previously endorsed Clinton rival John Edwards for president, according to an October 14 press release from the Edwards campaign. On the morning of Oct. 14, the Edwards campaign sent out a press release headlined “EDWARDS WINS ENDORSEMENT FROM FRIENDS OF THE EARTH ACTION.” Following news […]

I actually agree with Sam and Ezra that Ron Paul is not more viable than Mike Huckabee, though I’m deeply skeptical about Huckabee’s chances of winning Iowa, despite the support of the local home schooling associations and FairTax.org, on account of the complexity of the caucus system (more than 1,700 precincts) and Mitt Romney‘s committment […]

Ezra asked readers to name “the least bad Republican” and Tapped readers seem to agree: the real least bad Republican is clearly he who shall not be named, Ron Paul, not Mitt Romney. Though, in fairness, as one commenter noted: The Internet loves Ron Paul and hates all those other guys. So that’s the comments […]

The blog FireDogLake has long used as a sub-hed the above line from the Bad Religion song, “Los Angeles is Burning,” which was written in response to the 2004 California fire season. There is something very post-modern about a disaster of such epic proportions already being the subject of a song and (warning: disturbing) video. […]