Mitt Romney has not spoken at any Tea Parties. He has largely avoided the messy debates over the 10th Amendment, nullification, Paul Ryan’s budget proposals, and whether TV stars should be punished for using the “R” word. But at CPAC, at his mid-afternoon address to an overflowing crowd of conservative More…
While Liz Cheney of Keep America Safe spoke to a mostly-full Marriott Ballroom, a buzz circulated among event organizers: Trust us, you should be there. When Cheney wrapped, the surprise was revealed — her father, the former vice president, was on deck.
Dick Cheney entered the room to Beatles-on-Ed-Sullivan applause, More…
According to the AP, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy commander and military leader, was captured in Pakistan ten days ago, which would be on or about February 6. Since then, as Adam Serwer reminds us, a former Bush speechwriter, Marc Thiessen, chided President Obama for More…
The torture advocate and former vice president will be on ABC News’ “This Week,” interviewed by Jonathan Karl, possibly the only ABC reporter to contribute to Cheney’s favorite magazine, the Weekly Standard. It’s sure to be a hard-hitting interview. Interestingly, ABC is allowing Jane Mayer of The New Yorker More…
In 2005, University of Colorado Regent Tom Lucero gained a smidgen of national attention for his role in investigating — and eventually stripping of tenure — Ward Churchill, a left-wing professor who called workers in the World Trade Center “little Eichmanns.” Lucero’s been running for Congress in the 4th More…
The chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee announces that he’ll hold a hearing on counterterrorism in Yemen when the Senate reconvenes in the middle of the month. A good idea; weird that it took Kerry eleven days to say something about the failed attempt at blowing up Northwest Flight More…
If former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, former CIA Director Mike Hayden and White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan weren’t enough, here comes Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.), chairman of the House’s intelligence oversight board, to blast former Vice President Dick Cheney for not “understand[ing] the difference between talking tough More…
Dick Cheney says something, Politico uncritically reports it, Obama administration officials wearily refute it. So goes the ritual. It shouldn’t surprise anyone that John Brennan said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the former vice president is either “willfully mischaracterizing this president’s position” or is “ignorant of the facts” when More…
Reid Wilson has Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) — respectively the chairman of the DCCC and one of the punchiest House freshmen — knocking the Bush administration and the GOP for the near-miss Christmas terror attack. Massa’s attack on former Vice President Dick Cheney More…
Gallup’s annual, open-ended poll of the “most admired” Americans finds President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on top. Obama, whom 30 percent of respondents named first, easily wins out among men, but Clinton, at 16 percent, is only one point ahead of Sarah Palin.
It’s a More…
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