Monthly Archives: May 2008
Viva La Resolution?
Not bloody likely. No one’s going to be happy with today’s resolution of the Michigan and Florida issue by the DNC’s Rules and Bylaws Committee, and certainly not Hillary Clinton, who’s holding the gun to the head of one very … Continue reading
Filed under Democrats - The Dogfight
Dread Scott
If nothing else, Bob Dole sold a whole lot more Viagra today. As Scott McClellan took his love to the other side of town, the party scorned continued its withering dismissal as Bob Dole unleashed the email equivalent of a … Continue reading
Filed under The Current Tenants
Johnny Come Lamely
Next week, the Senate will vote on a bill co-sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman and John Warner imposing mandatory limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking to a group of employees at wind-turbine company Vestas in Portland, Oregon, less than three … Continue reading
Filed under GOP Candidates - Not Entirely Doomed
All The President’s Meh
There may or may not have been another terrorist attack on downtown Manhattan today but you wouldn’t have known it if you tried to get any news that today that didn’t have to do with Scott McClellan and his prematurely-released … Continue reading
Filed under The Current Tenants
Scott With Their Pants Down
If the Bush Administration were a real family, I always thought Scott McClellan would be Fredo–a go-along nebbish with the tiniest flashes of independence ending up in publicly-unseen woodsheddings and him dutifully toeing the family line the next day, and … Continue reading
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Veepstake Monday – The Inside Line: 05.26.08
Okay, three months until post time, and the pundits are talking about it, so it must be getting serious. John McCain is having barbecues at his crib this week talking to the front-runners (who have already long since been named … Continue reading
Filed under Veepstakes
Lobby Horse, Part 2
John McCain has made his ethical piety the centerpiece of his 2008 Presidential campaign. After getting caught with feathers in his whiskers in the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association/Keating Five scandal, and making no friends in the press in the … Continue reading
Filed under GOP Candidates - Doomed
Lobby Horse, Part 1
He may be “Senator McClean” and the buddy of the press corps now, whom he invites to his barbecues and is always a back-slap away on the campaign bus for both Straight Talk and straight talk, and the occasional bawdy … Continue reading
Filed under GOP Candidates - Doomed
Shea Culpa
She’s lost her mind. This has been a grueling and desperate and frantic and furious pinball round of a campaign and Hillary has officially hit TILT. Every minute, every hour, every day as the remaining superdelegates trickle over to the … Continue reading
Filed under Democrats - The Dogfight
Das Coot
So this is how we’re going to play it, huh? I guess it’s all out on the table now. With an aging street fighter’s resilient faith in the same fighting mojo he had in his salad days, and like Robert … Continue reading
Filed under GOP Candidates - Doomed
