TIMES AND POST PART WAYS ON BUSH’S PRIVATE SESSIONS. Did anyone else notice something intriguing about The Washington Post‘s article today — flagged below by Garance — about President Bush‘s private off-the-record sessions with reporters? The Post obviously viewed the president’s campaign as newsworthy — after all, they wrote a story about it. At the […]
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STEPHEN SPRUIELL LAPS…
STEPHEN SPRUIELL LAPS UP DEBORAH HOWELL’S LATEST SELF-CONTRADICTION. Incredibly, Stephen Spruiell is still trying — and still failing — to discredit the notion that Washingtonpost.com’s hiring of Ben Domenech was a sop to the right. Now he says he emailed Deborah Howell and asked her to explain the discrepancy between two statements. First, her column […]
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Freddy Hits Back
“There was a time when I thought I could win,” Fernando Ferrer is saying. “It was immediately after the primary. Sense of momentum. Our own internal polls had led me to believe it. The very quick coming together of the Democratic Party … .” A few moments later, he adds: “It felt very good.” Ferrer […]
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Lacking Discretion
What do Bernard Kerik and Michael Chertoff have in common? Both have proven to be disastrous choices to head the Department of Homeland Security. But that’s not the only thing they share. Both were enthusiastically championed for this all-important post by Rudolph Giuliani. As it happens, Giuliani was largely responsible for putting each man on […]
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Dems Don’t Know Jack
A new and extensive analysis of campaign donations from all of Jack Abramoff’s tribal clients, done by a nonpartisan research firm, shows that a great majority of contributions made by those clients went to Republicans. The analysis undercuts the claim that Abramoff directed sums to Democrats at anywhere near the same rate. The analysis, which […]
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Democratic Alchemy
In recent days, as the Jack Abramoff story has detonated in slow motion across official Washington, Dems have been debating ways of converting the muck of the GOP scandal into political gold. The short-term strategy appears to be twofold: Argue in unison that the GOP is the party of corruption, while aggressively countering GOP efforts […]
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Hillary’s Next Move
So what to make of Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s decision to drop her bid to unseat Hillary? Instant pundit wisdom has it that Pirro’s campaign fell apart because of her gaffes on the stump and her failure to raise money. There’s some truth to that, of course. But the real reason Pirro collapsed was […]
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Truce Time
Lieberman: Reporting for duty – yuk, yuk, yuk. Reid: Howard? The muffled sound of Dean’s voice coming from a TV in the background comes over the line: And then we’re going to Washington, D.C., to take back the White House! Yeaaarrrrrggggllll! Reid: God damn it, Howard, are you watching that scream of yours again? Dean: […]
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Blind Spot
In recent weeks, pundits and bloggers have done a heck of a job, as the president might put it, of demolishing the Bush administration’s mendacious claims that Democrats had access to the same intelligence on Iraq in the runup to the war. Democrats have powerfully demonstrated that in fact, George W. Bush and company did […]
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Need To Know
Does anybody remember Gerald Lechliter? In the home stretch of the 2004 presidential campaign, Lechliter, a retired army colonel from Delaware with a bit of spare time on his hands, wrote a 32-page analysis of George W. Bush’s military records that showed that Bush had shirked his duty. Lechliter sent it to The New York […]
