I don’t think I’ve been surprised to the upside about anything that Obama has ever done, but this comes the closest: President Obama will renominate Dawn Johnsen to serve as one of the Justice Department’s top officials, TPMDC has learned. A White House official confirms that Obama will renominate Johnsen, along with a handful of [...]
There was a time a few years ago when I couldn’t go two days without knocking around CNN President Jon Klein. My general irritation with the media – and my specific disappointment with CNN – was peaking, and Klein became my whipping boy (nullus!) for an interminable series of interviews he gave to media reporters [...]
During John Snow‘s tenure as Secretary of the Treasury, he proved a renewable source of material for us. In an administration where all policy is politics, and all decisions are made in the West Wing, Snow’s only job was to sell the President’s agenda to Wall Street and foreign investors. When President Bush announced Hank [...]
There’s nothing noble about defeatism, and a search through our archives would find exactly none. Hearing Democratic Senators say things like “You are going to be confirmed, and everybody knows that” (Senator John Kerry) and “…before I get to my formal remarks, you no doubt will be confirmed” (Senator Barbara Boxer) during Condoleezza Rice‘s confirmation [...]
A couple of examples of the shifting playing field in the whole same-sex marriage debate: 1. Dick Cheney, during a 2000 Vice-Presidential debate, when asked “Should a male who loves a male and a female who loves a female have all the constitutional rights enjoyed by every American citizen?”: “People should be free to enter [...]