The major thoughts rattling through my head after the John Edwards news last week seem to be as follows:
Good thing the Democrats didn’t nominate this guy.
Man, I feel awful for the Edwards supporters who feel let down or worse.
If Obama ever does something this dumb, you’re gonna need to keep me away from windows and [...]
This NY Times article on rising shipping costs is worth a read, if only for the examples of head-scratching activity that somehow makes sense given our current energy and economic policy. When I think of the effort that is required to ship something from China to the US, it boggles my mind that it is [...]
In the hub-bub over Iraqi government leaders backing Barack Obama’s general proposal for a 16-month timeline to withdraw American combat troops, John McCain has been making the argument that even if, after all “translation”-related confusion has been cleared up, the Iraqis do agree with Obama, Obama deserves no credit for this because he opposed the [...]
I’ve been thinking about this reaction piece Josh Marshall wrote at Talking Points Memo over the weekend, focused on the New York Times editorial calling for Alberto Gonzales’s impeachment. Marshall is struck by how unusual the impeachment of a cabinet official is - the only time Marshall knows it’s been done, the official in question [...]
A follow-up on filibusters: McClatchy has a nice article and chart detailing the growth of filibusters as a tactic over the last couple of years.
In many ways this is a shoe-on-the-other-foot situation, but what I find interesting is that it seems to me that Republican senators considered to be moderate have been more willing to [...]
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo seems annoyed that several news outlets are not calling the all-night session being held in the Senate a filibuster. This isn’t necessarily isolated to TPM - folks at other blogs had been calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to force Senate Republicans to “actually filibuster” various amendments and [...]
Wow, the Inquirer must have known I was in a mood to write about voting, because they have an article about a state representative who wants to hold hearings on instituting a vote-by-mail system.
I’ve written before about why I think the current one-day-of-voting plan doesn’t work so well. But I will note that in the [...]
There’s a lot of anger in antiwar circles about the supplemental spending bill that came out of the House-Senate conference committee, which appears to strip all timelines and mandated consequences from the bill. It’s being portrayed as a blank check for the president’s war policy
The major thing I’ve been grappling with in this discussion is [...]
Now here’s disturbing news, and so soon after our trip to Hershey. The Chocolate Manufacturers Association apparently has a petition before the FDA to redefine chocolate - and the new definition wouldn’t require any of those pesky coca butters or cocoa solids.
Can’t wait to see the revised factory tour that discusses those delicious hydrogenated [...]
I was over at the Obama campaign site last night checking of the new Women for Obama initative launched earlier this month with a series of kickoff speeches from Michelle Obama. The first thing you notice about Michelle is that she’s a terrific speaker. Very witty, very engaging, very concise. The second thing [...]