Hunter for president?
31 October 2006 |permalink | email article
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-El Cajon), the controversial conservative chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, unexpectedly told a San Diego waterfront news conference yesterday that he will run for president in 2008.
With an aircraft carrier as backdrop the… read full story
MySpace poll
29 October 2006 |permalink | email article
Forget the 68 election polls Karl Rove claims to read each day, or that he alone knows Republicans will retain control of the House and Senate on Nov.7.
Turns out some politicians and their supporters, perhaps unintentionally, have subjected… read full story
Read ‘em and weep
27 October 2006 |permalink | email article
President Bush assuring the body politic that he is inflexible in his willingness to be flexible on the Iraq war: “Our goals are unchanging. We are flexible in our methods of achieving those goals.”
Former President Clinton: “’Stop… read full story
Domino theory?
26 October 2006 |permalink | email article
Long off the political radar, Mario Cuomo offered an interesting perspective on W.’s news conference yesterday where the president repeatedly used the word “benchmarks” to define progress in Iraq.
“I think the war is virtually over,” the former New… read full story
Obama rallies for Angelides
24 October 2006 |permalink | email article
If timing is everything in politics then underdog gubernatorial candidate Phil Angelides will get a huge boost when Senator Barak Obama, suddenly the hottest name in national Democratic politics, headlines a major Friday afternoon rally for him at USC.… read full story
Why Arnold’s winning
23 October 2006 |permalink | email article
Is ‘sorry’ the new definition of political reinvention?
The Sacramento Bee has called Arnold Schwarzenegger California’s “apologizer-in-chief.” But the unusual political tactic, which he practiced even before taking office, is paying off. With a welcome, if questionable, assist from… read full story
GOP on the brink
19 October 2006 |permalink | email article
Karl Rove spins that the Republicans will hold the House and the Senate on Nov. 7. He receives 68 polls a week for Senate, House and governor races. But even W.’s brain knows politically Morning in America is becoming… read full story
08: California Campaign Cash
16 October 2006 |permalink | email article
More than two years before the 2008 presidential contest, the Golden State once again looms as the nation’s most generous contributor to putative candidates for their party’s nominations. The Sacramento Bee cited 2005-06 Federal Election Commission and the Center… read full story
Politics, Press, Moving On
15 October 2006 |permalink | email article
In his Oct. 13 column PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler addressed a subject which lacks even cursory discussion just 23 days before the mid-term elections: why are so many Americans upset and angry with politicians and the press?
“(People) often… read full story
Jon Stewart Observes
12 October 2006 |permalink | email article
In his MarketWatch column John Friedman wrote this week that beyond the quips, John Stewart, host of “The Daily Show,” has “an uncommonly sophisticated understanding of journalism.”
He cited an appearance at the New Yorker Festival on Sunday when… read full story
Phil’s Bio Ad
10 October 2006 |permalink | email article
Two days after his disappointing performance in a debate with Arnold Schwarzenegger, challenger Phil Angelides told reporters that he’s behind in the polls because “voters do not know me.”
It’s quite an amazing comment this late in an election… read full story
Michael Kinsley Opines
09 October 2006 |permalink | email article
The former editorial page editor of the L.A. Times, ever the maverick and dismissed a little over a year ago, used the newspaper’s Sunday opinion section to sound off about his experience there, settle a score and offer… read full story
Lousy Format, Lousy Debate
08 October 2006 |permalink | email article
Saturday’s so-called statewide gubernatorial television clash between Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Treasurer Phil Angelides at Sacramento State University seemed more like a pre-Halloween masquerade than a real debate - more treats, few tricks. A badly structured, sitting format never… read full story
LAT future grim
06 October 2006 |permalink | email article
Los Angeles Times reporters suspected something was up Monday when Tribune Co. CEO Dennis FitzSimons sent them a chummy “Dear Fellow Employee” e-mail addressing the future of the company and asking them to view a short video message updating… read full story
Arnold: stagecraft governor?
05 October 2006 |permalink | email article
He won a recall election because voters regarded him as a celebrity fresh face, an independent less beholden to either party but to voters. But he now seems like just another expedient politician, a registered Republican who appears more… read full story
Social Conservatives Rebel
03 October 2006 |permalink | email article
In the wake of a second bombshell October surprise, the sexually explicit online conversations between resigned Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) and former House pages, as far back as 2003, control of the House could shift to the Democrats next… read full story
Escape from the hot seat
01 October 2006 |permalink | email article
One might assume that George W. Bush has more urgent matters to worry about such as the mushrooming Congressional pages e-mail scandal involving ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R-Fla.) which could cost his party control of the House if a coverup… read full story
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