lanny davis

The far-right site Newsmax.com has quietly launched a blog by stalwart Bill and Hillary Clinton ally Lanny Davis, and it’s as entertainingly scattered and apologetic as, well, everything else Davis does. The title of his May 17 post:
Indict Cheney
The title of his very next post from 11 days later:
On Second Thought, Pardon Cheney

Former Bill Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis is about as anti-progressive as you can get and still be a Democrat — here’s Davis in 2006 calling liberal opponents of Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) “McCarthyites” on the opinion page of The Wall Street Journal — and yet, via Greg Sargent, even this bastion of bipartisan establishmentarianism thinks [...]

Lanny Davis, die-hard confidante of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, former White House counsel, current Fox News contributor and G.O.P favorite — one of few Democrats appointed by President George W. Bush — slammed Sen. John McCain in unusually strong terms today.
Writing for FoxNews.com, Davis joined the chorus of critics who have assailed the Arizona senator’s [...]

When I ran into Howard Wolfson, the former message czar for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign, at the Democratic National Convention last week, I asked him why he wasn’t working on the Obama campaign. He said he hadn’t been asked. Sen. Barack Obama’s aides would have been wise to tap Wolfson. He is not only [...]