An update on the administration’s purge of U.S. Attorneys: Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), who had been leading the charge against the administration, has fallen curiously silent on the subject.
Are GOP leaders finally putting Bush on notice? Boehner sets a deadline for success of the “surge.”
Wow, this is quite a sight: Obama aggressively goes after Fox News for spreading lies about him.
Murray Waas: Libby angling for pardon with swipes at White House?
So John Kerry is out. I like John Kerry. I think he would have made a good president, though he might have ended up regretting getting saddled with untangling President Bush’s disaster in Iraq. And I think he ran a much better campaign than the conventional wisdom now allows. But for all that, I’m very glad to hear he’s not going to mount another campaign in 2008.
But in modern presidential politics (say, going back a hundred years almost) you don’t get a second chance and probably shouldn’t. I think he shouldn’t have run because I suspect it would have been next to impossible for him to claim the nomination again — with the mix of strong opposing candidates, bad feelings from 2004 and the ‘botched joke’ incident from last campaign. And I’d hate to see him lose like that. Better to remain a long-serving senator and former nominee.
Like a lot of you I suspect, I feel torn in these sorts of situations. I don’t want to give in to web of slurs and smears and character assassination that now still clings to Kerry.
But the issue seems best handled at the most practical level.
He wouldn’t have been the best candidate so best that he didn’t run at all.
Don’t miss Sen. Chuck Hagel’s (R-NE) speech from this morning’s hearing on the Iraq resolution.
“I don’t think we’ve ever had a coherent strategy. In fact, I would even challenge the administration today to show us the plan that the president talked about the other night. There is no plan…. There is no strategy. This is a ping-pong game with American lives.”
Update: Now we’ve added a transcript.
A top Kerry supporter sheds some light on the Senator’s decision not to embark on another run for President.
Okay, Wolf Blitzer did an interview with VP Dick Cheney that is being broadcast later today. And it’s a doozy. See the transcript here.
As you may have heard, commentators and bloggers were abuzz today about GOP Rep. Michele Bachmann, who got a hug from the President last night at the State of the Union — and refused to let go.
But we’ve got more: It looks like Bachmann’s…feelings…for Bush go back farther than we all thought.