Douglas Holtz-Eakin Must Be Smiling
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Former Senator and McCain campaign co-chairman Phil Gramm has been a pain in the back end for McCain economic policy chief Douglas Holtz-Eakin for a very long time.
By Steve Clemons
Happy Blogiversary to Ireland’s Best Blogger
Gavin Sheridan is a great and talented blogger in Ireland. Yesterday, he celebrated his 6th “Blogiversary.” He has me beat by two years and some change.
Obama’s Foreign Policy Team: Are They Advising Him or Is He Colonizing Them?
Elisabeth Bumiller’s New York Times piece yesterday describing the national security and foreign policy advisory network in the Obama campaign has sent off strange shock waves in the blogosphere and in Washington. This article, I think, is a misfire. Some data show that there are somewhere between 70 and 100 million blogs in the world….
The View From Your Window
This beautiful pic was sent in from a reader of The Washington Note in Zanzibar.
Obama’s Europe Blindspot: Why Did He Skip Europe’s Institutional Heart?
(Obama Does Brown but Not Brussels) I’m strongly supportive of Barack Obama’s announced plans to spend some quality plane time with Senators Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Jack Reed (D-RI) on a trip to Iraq.
Add a Little John Cleese to the British Embassy Blog
A number of TWN readers and I recently received an email note from the British Embassy in Washington notifying us that an “embassy blog” was being conceived and wanted to ask us our thoughts on the enterprise. I wrote back right away saying cheers, tally-ho, and all that, great idea, a big bold move forward….
Congress Should Travel More Not Less: Applauding the Aspen Institute
I like the folks at US News & World Report but they just sent me a disconcerting political news swipe at sponsored Congressional travel and the Aspen Institute.
C-Span Alert for Insomniacs
My discussion today with New Yorker correspondent Jane Mayer on her new book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, is one hour and eight minutes long and will air at 2:52 am EST this morning (Wednesday) on C-Span 2.
Podesta’s Podesta
Washington Post national security columnist David Ignatius in an article a few years ago branded Cheney chief of staff and legal consiglieri David Addington as “Cheney’s Cheney.
<em>New Yorker</em> correspondent Jane Mayer on Cheney’s Gang and America’s Torture Policies
New Yorker Washington correspondent Jane Mayer will discuss her book, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals, with me live this morning between 9:30 am and 11:00 am EST.