Month: December 2007
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Rangel calls for real filibusters
Add Charlie Rangel to the list of House Democrats calling on their Senate colleagues to force real filibusters: [A]s Congress struggles to adjourn for Christmas, relations between House Democrats and their colleagues in the Senate have devolved into finger-pointing. House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.) accuses Senate Democratic leaders of developing
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The Bedell Smith quote
On Tuesday, I asked if I knew anyone knew the sourcing on this quote from Sally Bedell Smith’s WSJ op-ed, which also apparently appears in her book (my emphasis): For many years, one of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s closest friends, TV producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, has been fond of saying that when the Clintons “are dead
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Flying on Conventional Wisdom One
TNR editor Frank Foer has an amusing post up on the wacky world of political air travel: Some of my best campaign memories come from air travel. I once awoke from a nap on a transcontinental flight to find Alan Keyes hovering over me. After I rubbed my eyes, he was still there. Apparently, I
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Hillary says Obama isn’t electable
The only thing funnier than Hillary Clinton questioning Barack Obama’s experience is Hillary Clinton questioning his electability: Hillary Clinton’s campaign abruptly shifted gears Tuesday, arguing Obama can’t beat a Republican. Until now, her attacks targeted Obama’s experience, not his electability. Pouncing on a report that revealed Obama staked out stridently liberal positions in a 1996
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Huckabee vs. reality on electability
Like Rudy Giuliani, Mike Huckabee is now selling electability in a general election campaign against Hillary Clinton — this was just the top Google ad in my sidebar: Who Can Defeat Hillary? Governor Mike Huckabee. Conservatives Find Their Candidate. www.mikehuckabee.com But as I noted earlier, the Huckabee backlash is just getting rolling. He may win
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The Obama bubble?
In recent days, polls have showed that Barack Obama has drawn even with Hillary Clinton in Iowa and has cut modestly into her lead in New Hampshire. It’s important news, to be sure, but his futures prices on the Intrade prediction market have gone up way more than I would have expected. Here’s the lifetime
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The Huckabee parallel
Not long ago, many journalists and Democrats were charmed by a friendly Southern Republican governor who appeared to be reasonably bipartisan and concerned with the plight of the poor. And then he turned into … George W. Bush. I don’t think Mike Huckabee is going to turn into Bush, exactly, but you’d think people would
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Bleg on 1992 Clinton quote
Sally Bedell Smith uses a quote today in the Wall Street Journal that I’ve never heard before (my emphasis): For many years, one of Bill and Hillary Clinton’s closest friends, TV producer Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, has been fond of saying that when the Clintons “are dead and gone, each of them is going to be buried
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The GOP baggage debate
The Hotline gets to the core of the Republican presidential race: Huckabee is giving GOPers something other WH ’08ers haven’t: A reason to vote for someone instead feeling obligated to vote against someone (whether that’s HRC or another GOPer). Sure, Huck’s got a lot of liabilities. But, is his “Dumond/AIDS/immigration/taxes” baggage any heavier than Giuliani’s
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More lame electability evidence from Hillary
For a while, I’ve been bashing Hillary’s 2000 win in New York, which her campaign thinks proves she is a strong candidate who can win over moderate Republicans, etc. As I showed, however, she actually only did did about as well as Chuck Schumer did in 1998 — an average Democratic performance in a Democratic-leaning