I’ll tell you what I liked about Hillary Clinton, and liked a lot, back in 1999, when she started her first Senate campaign. She worked really hard because she knew she had to work really hard. If she was going to persuade New Yorkers to accept an out-of-stater as their senator; if […]
Michael Tomasky
Michael Tomasky is the American editor-at-large of the Guardian (UK). He was executive editor of the Prospect from 2003 to 2006.
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I’VE GOT A THEORY.
I’VE GOT A THEORY. I’m traveling and haven’t been doing my normal quotient of blog reading, so maybe others have said this. But: How sure are we that this 1984–Hillary ad was made by an Obama “supporter”? Because when I saw it, my immediate reaction was that it was made by a winger. It’s conservatives […]
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Remember the 62
I bet that when David Obey I bet that when David Obey lost his temper last week, he was thinking in part of a number (politicians are always thinking of numbers) that I haven’t seen at all in the press during these discussions about what the Democrats should do on Iraq. The […]
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After Scooter
In the hours of television I watched in the wake of the Scooter Libby verdict Tuesday, I found this exchange, between MSNBC host Tucker Carlson and A.B. Stoddard of The Hill, the most interesting (Stoddard, a reporter, was paired with former RNC spokesman Jim Dyke — balance, baby!): Carlson: Will there be […]
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IT�S A CIRCULATION WAR!
IT�S A CIRCULATION WAR! Which, apparently, the Inky wants to lose. David Sirota points out that fully 84 percent of Philadelphians voted against Rick Santorum last fall. So naturally, the Inquirer wants to repay Philly voters� loyalty with a column! Let�s remember that Santorum has little to do with Philadelphia. He�s from the Pittsburgh area, […]
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INKY RICKY
INKY RICKY. So Philadelphia magazine reports that the Inquirer is in column-writing discussions with Rick Santorum. This, the mag says, is the brainchild of Inky publisher Brian Tierney, about whom the mag article contains this amusing paragraph: Tierney, a longtime Philadelphia adman and PR guru, has deep ties to the GOP. In 2000, he reached […]
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A Tale of Two Losers
It seems unimaginable today, but I remember a time when people used to say “Tom Vilsack” and “president” in the same sentence and no one clucked. This was 2001 or 2002; he was a moderate governor of a swing state, the first Democrat elected governor in Iowa in 30 years when he […]
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SPRINGING FORWARD, OR MAYBE BACKWARD.
SPRINGING FORWARD, OR MAYBE BACKWARD. Interesting that George Bush and Dick Cheney are finally talking tough with Pervez Musharraf, no? Bush has warned the Pakistani prez that Congress, now in unfriendly Democratic hands, might cut offaid to Pakistan if the Musharraf regime doesn�t get more aggressive about hunting down al-Qaeda operatives within its borders (so […]
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BRAVO DEL TORO.
BRAVO DEL TORO. I�m with Comrade Lemieux on Gump, although agnostic on The Departed (it�s just a weird personal thing; I got kinda bored with mob movies around the time of Goodfellas and I don�t go see that many of them, although this one sounds a little different than most). But the great victory of […]
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This Dog Won’t Wag
Put aside completely the merits of starting a war with Iran, which is easy to do since there are none. Does the White House really believe that it can help itself politically by doing this? Do the people who have alienated this country and decimated another actually think that they can get […]