The Hill:
The alleged White House state dinner crashers and the director of the Secret Service will testify on Capitol Hill this week.
Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan and Tareq and Michaele Salahi will appear Thursday before the House Homeland Security Committee, its chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), announced Monday.
The Salahis can’t be too thrilled about that. [...]
How’s this for having your head truly, deeply, completely up your ass?
Newsweek editor Jon Meacham makes this outrageous assertion in a bizarre piece arguing that what the country really needs at this point is for Dick Cheney to run for president in 2012:
No one foresaw Cheney’s reemergence as a force in the politics of the [...]
For years, Democrats have complained about how George Bush and his band of merry men put two wars on the national charge card. About how, far from raising taxes or cutting non-military spending to cover the cost of his wars, Bush actually cut taxes and introduced a massive new domestic spending program, Medicare Part [...]
Josh Marshall undersells it again:
So, in Matt’s [Yglesias, not me unfortunately] thinking, its not so much poor appointments, its why Obama pulled sitting senators Clinton & Salazar into his cabinet and — perhaps even more important — took a number of governors or ex-governors Napolitano, Sebelius & Vilsack, who were well positioned for senate runs, [...]
Daily Kos: Weekly Tracking Poll: New Feature Paints Ugly 2010 Picture
Voter Intensity: Definitely+Probably Voting / Not Likely+Not Voting
Republican Voters: 81/14
Independent Voters: 65/23
Democratic Voters: 56/40
This is what happens when you trick people into voting for you based on the false idea that you’re a progressive. This is what happens when you promise change and [...]
In the tribe of conservative-performing-monkeys, they are both super-gorillas. And now it looks like they may be squaring off against each other.
Palin offered Beck nothing but love and respect:
In recent days, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has indicated that she may be open to a conservative presidential dream ticket in 2012: Palin-Beck (or Beck-Palin). [...]
If you’re a fan of The Daily Show, you probably remember Jon Stewart being unaccountably super-sympathetic to SuperFreakonomics co-author Steven Levitt on October 27. Levitt, of course, is an economist-turned-amateur-climatologist. And Jon Stewart was being super-sympathetic about the book’s misconceived amateur climatology.
To Stewart’s credit, he did acknowledge a few days later that [...]
Josh Marshall links to this WaPo story and entitles it “Change”:
The new policy — issued with little fanfare this fall by the White House ethics counsel — may turn out to be the most far-reaching lobbying rule change so far from President Obama, who also has sought to restrict the ability of lobbyists to get [...]
So now a group within the RNC is pushing a 10-point purity test to determine whether prospective Republican party candidates would qualify for party funds and endorsements.
A group of conservative Republican leaders is proposing a solution to the internecine warfare over what the party should stand for: a 10-point checklist gauging proper adherence to core [...]
Obama administration will not sign land mine ban – USA Today (11/24/09):
The Obama administration has decided not to sign an international convention that bans land mines.
State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said Tuesday that the administration recently completed a review and decided not to change the Bush-administration era policy.
“We decided that our land mine policy remains [...]
