It was buried at the end of the Associated Press report on the House vote to hold two White House officials in contempt. The House voted Thursday to hold two of President Bush's confidants in contempt for failing to cooperate with an inquiry into whether a purge of federal prosecutors was politically motivated. The first […]
The sound wasn't turned up on the TV set closest to my desk this evening as the Super Tuesday returns rolled in, so I didn't hear any explanations on air for this curiosity/conspiracy that I'm about to describe. I'm sure that there's a good explanation for all of this, but some super-pollster is going to […]
I'm certainly not going to defend the free-spending ways of President Bush and the GOP-led Congress over the past several years, but the unveiling of Bush's new budget plan has proven that while ready cash may be in short supply on Capitol Hill, gall is not. Selected quotes: "Today's budget bears all the hallmarks of […]
I had to work this evening, as I do most evenings, so I was unable to live-blog the debate. This is the second-best thing. The Los Angeles Times representative looks constipated. First Q: Are you better off today than you were eight years ago? They're not running against an incumbent president. Who cares? Tell us […]
Sen. John McCain won the Florida primary Tuesday by almost five points. Following wins in New Hampshire and South Carolina, McCain has definitely become the GOP frontrunner. If the rumors of a Giuliani endorsement prove true, then McCain will likely be the GOP nominee. Color me unenthusiastic. Should McCain become the nominee, then I'll hold […]
I encourage you to take these two bits of information, synthesize them and apply them. First, author Robert Heinlein: If you are part of a society that votes, then do so. There may be no candidates and no measures you want to vote for . . but there are certain to be ones you want […]
Former Sen. Fred Thompson today dropped his presidential bid. Thompson entered the race in September 2007, more than half a year after most of his rivals. That, along with a luckluster start to his campaigning, doomed the actor and Tennessee Republican. I still haven't settled on a candidate, but Thompson was one of the ones […]
The results of tonights Iowa caucuses are in and the big winners are Sen. Barack Obama and former Gov. Mike Huckabee. My first thought is: Wait a minute! It's January 3rd for crying out loud. Sen. Hillary Clinton came in third. That's deep trouble for her. If she doesn't win New Hampshire now, then the […]
A big part of GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's campaign has been the idea that he's not just another politician. He's got a non-political background as a Baptist minister, and he's got a sense of humor and a penchant for straight talk. Unlike most politicians, he's also got what appears to be a rather thin […]
I finally got around to reading presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee's essay in Foreign Affairs a couple days back, and I must confess that there's enough miss in his hit-and-miss outline that he sounds more like Barack Obama than Ronald Reagan. In a New York Times profile last week, Huckabee said that his thinking on foreign […]