Greg Sargent

DAVID IGNATIUS: MCCAIN’S A MAVERICK BECAUSE I LIKE HIM. A quick point to add to Matt‘s deft skewering of David Ignatius‘s column on John McCain. What’s amazing is that Ignatius is saying the jury’s out on whether McCain will prove in the future to be adequately capable of flip-flopping — yet in the same column, […]

LIBERAL BLOGGERS DON’T WANT TO DESTROY THE “MSM” — THEY WANT TO MAKE IT BETTER. Just about everyone in the lefty blogosphere has taken a swing at Mike McCurry‘s piece over at The Huffington Post, and now it’s my turn. In case you missed it, McCurry wrote that he knows reporters — and Pulitzer Prize […]

WHEN WILL REPORTERS ASK ABOUT TYLER DRUMHELLER? Number of White House press briefings held since Tyler Drumheller, a 26-year veteran of the CIA and most recently head of European covert operations, told CBS’s 60 Minutes that the White House ignored the fact that a top member of Saddam‘s inner said Iraq had no active WMD […]

BILLIONS SQUANDERED IN IRAQ AREN’T JUST AN ABSTRACTION. A commenter to this post below takes issue with the argument that Dems should oppose Iran by pointing out that Bush‘s wars could cost more than Vietnam. M.J. writes: “arguing that we shouldn’t take military action in Iran because it’s too expensive” won’t “resonate with the American […]

BUSH’S WARS: MORE EXPENSIVE THAN VIETNAM. Now here’s a way Dems can argue against a possible war with Iran. Not long ago, during this site’s informal debate about how Dems should handle the Iran question, Ezra rightly suggested that Dems level with Americans about the cost — human and monetary — of Iraq and potentially […]

“AUTHENTICITY” ACT PROVIDES COVER FOR PANDERING TO THE RIGHT. Kevin Drum aptly observes that the press corps shouldn’t allow itself to be snookered by George Allen‘s authenticity schtick the way it got snowed by John McCain‘s rendition of the same act back in 2000. Let me add another point about this. The key to this […]

A QUESTION ABOUT KARL ROVE’S SELF-DEFENSE. Can anyone explain this? Here’s how today’s Washington Post described part of the testimony that Karl Rove offered yesterday: Rove’s testimony focused almost exclusively on his conversation about Plame with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in 2003 and whether the top aide later tried to conceal it, the source […]

MORE DELAYING TACTICS ON IRAQ INTEL PROBE FROM PAT ROBERTS. Senator Pat Roberts is so determined to delay a real probe into the Bush administration’s prewar deceptions that he’s breaking the promises he makes in his own press releases. On March 14, Roberts, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, put out a press release that […]

YET ANOTHER DELAY IN PROBING BUSH’S PREWAR DECEPTIONS. Can this be true? From The Hill: Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), who chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said he wants to divide his panel�s inquiry into the Bush administration�s handling of Iraq-related intelligence into two parts, a move that would push off its most politically […]