Atrios: Just caught Juan Williams on NPR discussing the cocktail party chatter – apparently it does exist! – about the “DC Madam” story. He says the chatter is that the direction the story is likely to go in is going to be Abramoff like in that it’ll come out that escort services were handed out …
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So Who Won The Debate?
My gut tells me that the real winner was anyone who didn’t watch the debate and missed Chris Matthew’s grandstanding, incessant babble, and rude interruptions. If you pushed me, though, I would tell you the real winner was either the Democratic Party or Fred Thompson. I did learn some interesting things: 1.) At least three …
Open Debate Thread
Ron Paul is going to be a hoot.
Open Thread
Finals Week and I simply have no time.
Open Thread
Lots of stuff happening out there. Here, you read about sex and boats. That’s what makes us great.
Tom Tancredo Wins This Round
I’m with Kevin. Political Wire asked each candidate the old trope about one thing they would want a desert Island, eliciting the usual answers of family and books. Rep. Tom Tancredo: boat.
Bye, Paul
For some reason watching Paul Wolfowitz go down for a nepotism scandal rather than for spearheading a galactic disaster of a war feels like seeing Al Capone go down for tax evasion. You get the punishment but somehow it lacks justice. The former chairman of the World Bank’s ethics committee yesterday accused the institution’s embattled …