Politico reports: Fred Thompson drew on his Senate intelligence experience to help a $3 billion investment group protect its wealthy investors’ cash from market fluctuations caused by international dust-ups and security threats. Guggenheim Advisors, which invests a small group of ultra-rich clients’ cash in hedge funds, was good for Thompson, too. It paid him a […]
GOP Sen. Larry Craig says that he's not going to resign his Senate seat after all in the wake of his guilty plea to playing footsie with a cop in a Minneapolis, Minn., airport bathroom. I was going to say that someone needs to stick a boot up Craig's butt to get him to quit […]
Earlier this summer, several people died when a heavily trafficked bridge in Minnesota suddenly collapsed in the middle of the afternoon commute. It didn't take long for certain politicians with more outrage than propriety demand that we spend more money on infrastructure, especially bridges. We were lectured that we didn't really care about the danger […]
Sen. Larry "Wide Stance" Craig should resign his seat. Craig's statement today on his Web site was the wrong one, seeing as how it is not a resignation. The good news: Republicans are asking for an ethics investigation of one of their own. That's a refreshing change from the impulse to cover for one of […]
Presidential adviser Karl Rove announced this morning that he will resign effective Aug. 31. It took little time for Democrats to dip back into their Nixon-era store of rhetoric. Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee's chairman, issued a statement following Rove's announcement saying Rove has "acted as if he was above the law." Leahy added, "There […]
Sen. Ted Stevens -- the only senator I've ever personally ticked off with my reporting -- had his home raided today by the FBI and IRS. I don't know if Stevens is dirty or not. Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised either way -- I think just about every politician who reaches a position of national […]
The Democrats have decided that there's nothing much worth getting done in Washington. Like their spiritual leader, Bluto Blutarski, they're only intersted in making empty, meaningless gestures. Everyone knows what the Democrats' position on the Iraq war is -- and everyone knows there isn't a darn thing they can do about it as long as […]
From today's editorial on the Libby commutation on the "conservative" San Diego Union-Tribune editorial page. Libby – and Cheney, too – were highly reckless in leaking the name of CIA official Valerie Plame as part of a payback scheme aimed at her husband, an administration critic. Apparently no one was following the case closely. There […]
President Bush announced today that he's commuting I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby's sentence. Libby will still have to pay a $250,000 fine and serve two years probation, but will not serve any prison time. President Bush announced this controversial action on a Friday so it would get less scrutiny. Sorry, I was channeling my inner-lefty conspiracy […]
Ron Nehring, last seen leading John Fund around by the nose, is the new head of the California GOP. If you've ever wondered why the state's GOP is in such sorry state, look no further than Nehring. The California Republican Party has decided no American is qualified to take one of its most crucial positions […]