vice president

Jonathan Martin plugged this speech from A.B. Culvahouse, the head of Sen. John McCain’s 2008 vice presidential vetting project, and it was a fascinating look into how such decisions are made. Point one: Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) was seriously enough considered by McCain for the vetters to look into state “sore loser” laws that would [...]

President Obama has promised a multi-pronged approach to a greener future, but with legislation to reduce carbon emissions now on hold, energy efficiency measures have become the focus of the administration’s environmental efforts.
Following yesterday’s revelation that cap-and-trade legislation would not be included in the fiscal year 2010 budget, Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Vice President [...]

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin apparently caught her staff by surprise last month when she told NBC’s Brian Williams she would release her medical records to the public.
With the records still unreleased this week, and no indication from the McCain campaign that they would be forthcoming, several media outlets began to wonder aloud if the campaign [...]

With a new CBS/New York Times poll finding that 59 percent of registered voters don’t think Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is ready to be vice president, one of Sen. John McCain’s most prominent supporters is publicly saying what much of the rest of the country seems to be thinking.
During an interview with National Public Radio [...]

TOLEDO, Ohio — The McCain camp has pushed back hard on the notion that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is operating independently from the senator’s campaign — or, in the colorful parlance of a typically unnamed staffer, “gone rogue.”
Having observed the McCain campaign for almost two years, I’m inclined to believe Palin’s less-scripted moments are, in [...]

On the campaign trail with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, TWI’s Laura McGann explains the underlying motive behind the GOP vice presidential nominee’s strong support for special-needs children: a coded push against abortion.
Laura traces Palin’s history of opposition to abortion and ties it to what has become one of her central messages on the stump: her [...]

After several days of internecine finger-pointing and name-calling within the McCain campaign, Politico’s Mike Allen reports that an adviser in the McCain faction stepped up the attack on Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s faction. From today’s edition of The Playbook:
***In convo with Playbook, a top McCain adviser one-ups the priceless “diva” description, calling her “a whack [...]

Chuck Hagel is NOT happy with this line of reasoning. But Biden wants that ‘SNL’ invite.

Describing Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s tendency to appoint her friends to high-level state jobs, The New York Times wrote last month that “The Wasilla [Alaska] High School yearbook archive now doubles as a veritable directory of state government.”
TWI’s Laura McGann reported yesterday about Palin’s tendency to reward her friends with cushy jobs.
The Los Angeles Times [...]

Sen. Barack Obama may have the elite liberal media in his corner, but Sen. John McCain has got one heavyweight on his side: President George W. Bush.
In one of “Saturday Night Live’s” most brilliant skits in recent memory, Will Ferrell reprised his role as the flailing current president last night in a special Thursday edition [...]