By Steve Clemons

Is Tina Fey Sarah Palin? Or Sarah Palin Tina Fey? — Steve Clemons

I don’t have time or interest in spending time attacking the pugnacious, rude, and ingnorant Sean Hannity — but I do want to commend the American Prospect‘s Robert Kuttner for standing his ground and sticking to substance when Hannity was such a miserable host.

Heck, I stopped in Bucharest, Romania for refueling in the middle of the night. I was traveling with former Treasury Secretary and Senator Lloyd Bentsen, for Secretary of State Alexander Haig, United Technologies Chairman & CEO George David and others.

Thank you, Dan Froomkin. Froomkin writes at the Washington Post‘s “White House Watch” and also at Nieman Watchdog. Froomkin captured something I have been feeling but haven’t quite articulated in a post he sent me last night.

(Suffragist Susan B. Anthony) Despite the superficial celebration by some and criticism by others that George W. Bush says that he doesn’t read many of America’s leading papers, the 43rd President of the United States reads a great deal of quality work.

Inspired by occasional TWN reader, George Stephanopoulos. . . First on the pro-McCain side: Moonbats dropping like flies from PDS epidemic It’s America’s newest disease – only diagnosed by some in the media a few days ago – but it is spreading among the nation’s Beautiful People at an alarming rate.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin was introduced to me years ago at a dinner of friends organized by Democrat and economic wunderkind Adam Posen who is a senior staff member at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. I liked him instantly and still do.

By John McCain’s defense of his own credentials and experience in the Republican presidential debates, one can’t help but wonder how he thinks that Sarah Palin would be ready to step into his shoes should something happen to him.

Chris Nelson writes one of the best daily insider political reports in Washington, call The Nelson Report. Don’t ask me for it — it’s impossible to get on the web or other ways unless you are a major client or subscriber.