The other shoe dropped last week. Senator McCain appeared before a group of students at Wake Forest and vowed to appoint judges “strictly faithful to the Constitution’’ who would not engage in “the common and systemic abuse of our federal courts.” As The New York Times noted, “The issue is of enormous importance to conservatives, …
I see that George Stephanopoulos is touting Hillary for VP. Imagine: after a bruising battle for the nomination, a smart, attractive, and let’s face it, rather ruthless candidate who lost the nomination that she felt was hers to someone she doesn’t respect all that much, is offered the Number 2 slot by the rival who …
After the results of yesterday’s Indiana and North Carolina primaries, everybody now knows what everybody has known since March–the game is over. Hillary made a charge in Pennsylvania and won a lot of respect, but let’s face it–whatever she won came at a high cost to her, and to Obama. Now she talks about slogging …
It’s not exactly an iron law, but for the last quarter century, it’s been a pretty good rule of thumb: when the American people go into the voting booth, they vote for the candidate with whom they would most like to have a beer.In 1980 and 1984, they picked breezy Ronald Reagan over pious Jimmy …
In a rather alarming article in last week’s issue of The New Yorker, Steve Coll reports on an appearance by General Richard Cody, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Armed Service Committee. “The current demand for our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan exceeds the sustainable supply, and limits our …
December seems like an eon ago, but it’s really been less than six months since everyone was feeling misgivings about the front-loaded primary season we were about to enter. You remember what was being said—that things were going to happen with lightening speed, that the front-runners possessed overwhelming advantages in name recognition and money and …
The other day on Slate, Yale law professor Akhil Reed Amar proposed this novel idea: Not only could Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton share the Democratic ticket, but they could have a kind of alternating co-presidency, where one would serve as president, then resign in favor of the other, who would appoint the just resigned …
It’s true that Hillary Clinton could still win the Democratic nomination this year, but it’s also true that I could be elected Pope. Any Catholic male over the age of 7 is eligible, and I’ve got that covered. But to be the democratic nominee, you need to have a majority of the delegates, and Hillary …
So Governor Eliot Spitzer has acknowledged importing a prostitute from New York to Washington DC. This certainly seems like the 21st century, service economy version of carrying coals to Newcastle. One would think it would be possible to find a prostitute in Washington, but maybe Jack Abramoff‘s experience had a more salutary effect than we …
Clinton supporters spent the weekend accusing Obama of plaugerism. Obama supporters are already huffily warning superdelegates not to upset the will of the voters, as though Obama’s narrow lead at the two-thirds mark of the campaign is proof of what that will is. Both sides need to chill out and remind themselves that as tempting …