Posts tagged with 'Kevin_Brannon'

  • Does Rudy Really Want it?

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, DECEMBER 24 2007 12:02 PM | PERMALINK



    Not only is it starting to look a lot like Chtistmas, it's starting to look a lot like 2000--at least for Rudy Giuliani.  In this New York Times piece from November by Adam  Nagourney, aids close to the former New York City mayor speculated that there was more to Rudy's decision to withdraw his bid for Patrick Moynihan's seat in the U.S. Senate than his cancer diagnosis: 

    . . .some of his aides and senior Washington Republicans say today they had concluded weeks before that he had lost interest...

  • Hillary Steps Up Obama Attacks on the Web

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, DECEMBER 21 2007 05:18 PM | PERMALINK



    Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

     It came out yesterday that the Clinton campaign has purchased two anti-Obama websites, signaling another escalation in her self-described attempt to “draw distinctions” between herself and her opponent before the big day in Iowa.

    Obama has certainly had some punches thrown his way this month, even if Hillary has not been the one actually throwing the really nasty ones.  At least not directly.   Well, O.K., it’s her people, not her.  

    Consider the...

  • Thompson Press Release: Huckabee a Court Jester. Also, What NIE?

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, DECEMBER 05 2007 11:07 AM | PERMALINK

    For weeks now, the Huckabee thread of the campaign narrative has been that the stronger he gets, the more intense the scrutiny he’ll face from the press and his republican rivals. 

    Now that he’s pulled ahead in Iowa, the obvious tactic—and it ain’t hard—is to portray Huck as being that kid who runs for class president by being real nice to everyone and making a good natured ass of himself when necessary.

    Well, here’s a snippet of a Thompson press release Politico’s Jonathan Martin posted...

  • Rove Defends Comments on Congress's Role in War

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, DECEMBER 03 2007 11:25 AM | PERMALINK


    As the Bush administration’s inside man, Karl Rove liked to say that his unmoved mover status in D.C. is pretty much the stuff of myth and legend. Well, now that he’s spending more time in front of the cameras than behind the scenes, it may also be the stuff of history.

    So, Charlie Rose ate it up when Rove made his bombshell (and by that I mean dumb) statement about Congress rushing ahead of the Bush administration to authorize war on Iraq. But the story has not gone down so well in...

  • Manuel Miranda: Covered in Glory and Spreading Democracy

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, NOVEMBER 29 2007 03:10 PM | PERMALINK

    This week’s New Yorker added some interest to my humdrum morning commute to Manhattan.  There was Hendrik Hertzberg praising Mike Huckabee’s authenticity in the “Talk of the Town,” yet another sign that the former Arkansas governor is working some kind of voodoo magick over all agents of the national press.

    And then I turn to this entry by Jeffery Toobin on the magick resurrection of Manuel Miranda, the former lawyer for the Senate Judiciary Committee and counsel to Bill Frist.  The one who got...

  • NYC Gay Org Releases Giuliani Files

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, NOVEMBER 28 2007 02:00 PM | PERMALINK

    They say it’s tough going for a senator on the presidential campaign trail, but nothing beats a former New York City Mayor trying to pass himself off as a social conservative.

    For Rudy Giuliani, it’s just another form of drag. And for my money, he’s a lot more convincing in a dress.

    I’ve been saying this for so long that even I’m sick of it, so thank god for my fellow New York City gays at the Empire State Pride Agenda for setting up this clearing house for all things Giuliani’s Gay New...

  • "Dixie Chicks of Bridge" Face Smackdown After Bush Comment

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, NOVEMBER 23 2007 12:59 PM | PERMALINK



    Here’s a cautionary tale of what can happen when some bridge ladies try to fill the vacuum in this country’s foreign relations program.  I guess some people feel like Karen Hughes was doing a good enough job after all. . . . 

  • As Huckabee Rises in Iowa, So Do Questions About His Record

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, NOVEMBER 22 2007 12:00 AM | PERMALINK



    Mike Huckabee is now running close to even with frontrunner Mitt Romney in Iowa, having surpassed Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and John McCain in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

    If Romney and the others don’t look too worried, it’s for good reason.

    Huckabee’s gotten this far because he’s got the God cred the other’s lack (nothing against Mormons, Mitt!) and a knack for one-line zingers that some mistake for down home charm.  But now that he’s running with the big boys, he’s got...

  • U.S. Attorney in Minn. Resigns, Blames "McCarthy-ite Hysteria" for Controversies

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, NOVEMBER 20 2007 12:00 AM | PERMALINK



    Yesterday afternoon, Rachel Paulose announced that she’s resigning as U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota to serve as Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy. To the attorneys in the beleaguered Minnesota office, the e-mail must have seemed like the rainbow after the flood: a small sign from newly sworn Attorney General Michael Mukasey that the disaster of the Gonzales years is finally over.

    The Biblical reference wouldn’t be lost on Paulose, a...

  • Dodd Announces He Will Delay Vote on FISA Until Immunity for Telecoms is Removed.

    POSTED BY KEVIN BRANNON, OCTOBER 23 2007 08:52 PM | PERMALINK

    Senator Chris Dodd discusses his opposition to telecom immunity on October 20, 2007

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    Senator Chris Dodd announced today that he will place a hold on a bill to extend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) if the Senate Judiciary Committee does not remove language granting retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies who turned over customer records to the Bush administration without a court order.
     
    Speaking to the press in Iowa, Dodd called the Bush...

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