Looking over the coverage of Hillary Clinton's pitch this week, I can't help but think she's off message. Today in Philadelphia, for example, Clinton is emphasizing the need to keep the presidential campaign going.

In excerpt of a speech she's set to give to the AFL-CIO in the City...

It's been a long while since one of the Democratic presidential candidates went after the Republican presidential candidate, so this was a very welcome development.

Democratic Sen. Barack Obama said Thursday that Sen. John McCain reversed his position on President Bush's deep tax cuts in order to win the...

Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani's personal life has been a mess for quite a while. No one needs to go dumpster diving to learn the details; they're all out in the open -- three marriages (including one to his cousin), repeated extra-marital affairs, left his second wife by way of...

Both the President and outgoing Attorney General made brief public statements today about Alberto Gonzales' resignation, but one of the striking things about their remarks is that neither actually mentioned why Gonzales is stepping down.

I expected something vague about now being a "time for new challenges," or maybe the...

Far-right activist Hugh Hewitt acknowledged yesterday that he and some friends were invited to the White House yesterday for an Oval Office meeting with the president. The guest list, in addition to Hewitt, included, Glenn Beck, Bill Bennett, Neal Boortz, Scott Hennon, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larson, Mark Levin, Michael...

It looks like the Bush White House has hit the diplomatic flip-flop trifecta. It's quite an accomplishment.

In April, the administration said U.S. officials should not have any contact with the Syrian government, accusing the Syrians of meddling in Lebanon, supporting terrorism, and being unhelpful on Iraq. A month...

A few days before Bush was inaugurated in January 2001, The Onion ran one of the greatest satirical pieces of the decade: "Mere days from assuming the presidency and closing the door on eight years of Bill Clinton, president-elect George W. Bush assured the nation in a televised address...

At the president's press conference yesterday, a reporter asked a basic and important question. Noting that Joe Biden called al Qaeda in Iraq a "Bush-fulfilling prophecy," the reporter asked the president why he doesn't just "get out of the middle of a civil war and fight al Qaeda." Bush,...

Let's look back to Jan. 11, when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice sat at the witness table in Hearing Room 106 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building explaining why "those who talk about engagement with Syria and Iran" are all wet. "That's not diplomacy -- that's extortion," she said.

As a rule, Law Day, a ceremonial holiday since 1958, goes by largely unnoticed. It was established as a Cold War counterpart to May 1, the biggest day on the socialist calendar, so that the United States could celebrate constitutional democracy and the rule of law. Ever since, presidents have...

Defense Secretary Robert Gates visited Baghdad yesterday and issued a direct challenge to the Maliki government to step up and do more -- quickly. Unfortunately, he also appears to have gotten the administration's policy backwards.

"Frankly, I would like to see faster progress," Gates said. The Pentagon chief went...

The president attended the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast this morning in DC, and addressed his ongoing (and alleged) desire to establish a "culture of life" in America. As is too often the case, Bush's rhetoric and our reality were very different things.

"Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding...

If you take a look at Walter F. Murphy's Wikipedia page, he sounds like an accomplished and impressive scholar. "He won a Distinguished Service Cross for his service as a Marine in Korea," the page says. "He held the chair of McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton. In addition...

The showdown between the president and congressional Democrats over funding the war in Iraq took an odd turn yesterday when the White House subtly changed tactics. The new problem with a withdrawal timeline is that it isn't "mainstream" enough.

During yesterday's press briefing, White House spokesperson Dana Perino argued that...

Obviously, the writing is on the Attorney General's wall. Tony Snow would only say yesterday that White House officials "hope" Gonzales stays on. There are multiple reports this morning that the search is already on for a new AG, and a list of possible replacements is already...

A friend of mine called me this week and asked what the prosecutor-purge scandal is all about. She'd heard a bit about it, but didn't see what the big deal was and wanted to hear to the whole story. After I explained it, she said, "What made them [administration...

It's become a fairly common refrain. The right does something offensive, the left gets frustrated when there are no consequences, time elapses, and the right, annoyed by lingering resentment, tells the left to "get over it." Given the right's conduct, it's not always easy to just let bygones be bygones.

Apparently, Tom DeLay's criminal indictment, his resignation in disgrace from the House, his record of vituperative right-wing hate-mongering, his demagoguery, and his multiple admonishments from the House Ethics Committee, weren't enough to keep CNN from putting him on the payroll.

Tom DeLay is becoming a commentator for CNN, according...

There's no reason for the Walter Reed scandal to be a partisan affair, but over the last couple of weeks, it has been. Seriously wounded troops have been badly mistreated. The country hasn't been serving them as well as they served us. It's a national disgrace in desperate need of...

In 2005, Bush's Justice Department decided it would start taking pornography prosecutions seriously. After several far-right groups complained that the administration failed to take on porn aggressively in its first term, Alberto Gonzales announced that the DoJ would devote considerable resources to a war on smut, described at the...