October 2, 2008
Palin-Biden
Joe Biden won the debate substantively. Sarah Palin won it stylistically. Sound familiar? John McCain won the first debate substantively, but all anybody wanted to talk about was how he wouldn’t look at Barack Obama. Obama was vague in...
October 2, 2008
Jam-Job
For those of us who love to watch the Congressional sausage-making progress, the Senate action yesterday was a thing of beauty. I am not talking about the high-minded Senate bipartisanship. I am talking about how...
October 1, 2008
Predictable
The intrepid investigator Bob Stevenson, former spokesman for Bill Frist and Pete Domenici and now one of the most highly-sought Senate lobbyists around town, did some quality research into the genesis of the current crisis, and came up...
September 30, 2008
Crack That Whip
This originally appeared in The Politico Watching the House floor on Monday, I was pretty certain that the vote against the $700 billion bailout bill would turn around. In the years when Republicans were in the majority, they were able...
September 29, 2008
The Stupid Party
Swing voters vote not only for a party they like. They also vote against the party they don’t like. And they usually vote against a party because their policies or their leaders or their allies are stupid....
September 29, 2008
Mulligan, anyone?
The best-case scenario for the House Republicans is that they have a mulligan vote. The worst-case scenario is that Democrats add a bunch of junk to the bill to buy off the Congressional Black Caucus...