Month: December 2007

Observations on today’s debate.

Having watched the debate today, I felt Obama came out stronger than he has in previous encounters. Everyone else held their own. Edwards scored some real positives in my book. I was disappointed in the method used to keep...

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Open Thread

Wanna have some fun? This morning the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 12-7 (with Specter and Grassley joining the majority) to find Karl Rove and Josh Bolten in criminal contempt of Congress. Now the vote will go to the full...

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Maybe We’re Crazy. Probaby.

I actually went all day without hearing about the hostage situation at Hillary Clinton’s campaign headquarters. By the time I got the full story, it was all over but the post-hostage-crisis analysis, which basically boiled...

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Reforming Intelligence Oversight

David Ignatius makes some valuable observations in his column about congressional oversight of the intelligence community. Here’s one. The intelligence committees were meant to be bipartisan. And to avoid the usual...

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