2008 Election

In the aftermath of Pennsylvania, the chin-stroking, basso-intoning, wisdom-spouting Fourth Estate has outdone itself. Let us all be shocked, shocked that this latest iteration of "What It All Means" surpasses, in straws grasped and whole cloth woven, all that has come before. The tectonic plates are moving, we are told....

I want Clinton vs. Obama to be over too. For a while we had a vigorous debate about issues, experience, and how to change America. That time is long past (deceased circa March 4), and now it's just gotten ugly.

However, what may be uglier than the campaigns' recent below-the-belt...

Oregon Gov. Ted Kulongoski sent supporters an e-mail calling for two debates between Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama in advance of the Beaver State's May 20 primary.

Kulongoski, who supports Clinton, writes a note to folks on his political mailing list and includes a link to his "petition"...

I'm beginning to think that the writers of Gossip Girl are behind the Presidential election.

"Spotted: B and H, dueling for delegates in NC. What's worse, B bowling a 37 or H forgetting what really happened in Bosnia? I'll never tell."

The now infamous ABC debate made my...

House Republicans today massively defected from President Bush's harsh new Medicaid rules, always an interesting event in an election year. Two-thirds of House GOP members voted with all the Democrats to impose a one-year moratorium on implementing the new Medicaid rules which the Bush White House recently re-wrote. The...

It's funny how the punditry works, sometimes.

Over a month ago, I wrote an op-ed for the Philadelphia Daily News, warning Democrats that a prolonged primary would destroy the party's chances to win in November. I followed it up ten days later a with a post here that compared...

In the ten weeks since I co-founded the Superdelegate Transparency Project, I've learned quite a bit. I've learned that there are people from all walks of life who are willing to put in the dint of hard work to contribute to the democratic process. I've learned that a lot...

Hillary's "obliterate Iran" comment actually kept me up last night. Surely this represents a new low, even down here in the gutter Clinton is trying to claw her way out of. The ugliness of the Clinton campaign is now to the point where it is damaging not only Obama,...

One more day.

Just one more day.

The Pennsylvania Democratic Primary will be over today and maybe then, to quote Gerald Ford's speech writer who passed away this...

I apologize for the following. It was written in anger brought on by listening to All Things Considered for three whole minutes, a mistake I shall not repeat. Is NPR any better than Charles Gibson? No. In any case, the frothing lather below should be recognizable to anyone unfortunate...

Discussing the newest depth to which the Clinton campaign has stooped has become so irritatingly repetitive, at some point I will have to just stop mentioning them. And there are real news stories of major importance this week, such as the implosion of Zimbabwe and the inexplicable posture that the...

I have a theory that in order to be First Lady you have to have a cookie recipe.

Martha Washington had a cookie recipe: jumbals. (Jumbals have fallen out of fashion but they're a little like a pretzel made out of biscuit dough.)

Mary Lincoln had a cookie...

Have you seen the new ad the DNC is going to run against McCain? Apparently the Democrats are calling McCain out and they may be doing it today in order to take advantage of network and cable news coverage of the Pennsylvania Primary. It doesn't sound like the DNC has...