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Wednesday, Jan 7
Strategy Memo: Two Senators Short
Good Wednesday morning. The 111th Congress is now in session. The highlight of the day yesterday -- besides the Burris show -- may have been Vice President-elect Biden being sworn in for his seventh Senate term (which will last only several days) by outgoing VP Dick Cheney.
Tuesday, Jan 6
Strategy Memo: Say Hello To 111
Roland Burris likely will not be one of the senators sworn in to office today. The Illinois secretary of state refused to sign the documentation Burris needs to enter the Senate, and the secretary of the Senate rejected the paperwork handed in yesterday because both the governor and secre...
Monday, Jan 5
Strategy Memo: A New Year
While Republicans are set to choose their new leader at the end of the month, President-elect Obama will name Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine as the DNC chair-in-waiting, the Washington Post's Michael D. Shear reports.. Kaine's gubernatorial term ends in January 2010, when Kaine will take over ful...
Thursday, Dec 18
Cronyism in an Era of Change
The Kennedy mystique defines politicians of Joe Biden's generation. Biden didn't become the next JFK when his 1988 presidential campaign flared out, but he's managed to re-enact the 1960 caper with his own Delaware Senate seat. He arranged for the appointment of his factotum, longtime a...
Tuesday, Dec 16
Strategy Memo: One More Senate Seat
Salazar's selection also opens up a fourth Democratic Senate seat since the election. The other three include: Obama's Illinois seat (which is the most-watched and controversial), Secretary of State nominee Hillary Clinton's New York seat (the second most-watched seat with Carolin...
Tuesday, Nov 18
A Force for Good -- but Not at State
Of course, he will benefit from the counsel and the contacts that his secretary of state can offer. But remember, he provided another and probably more expert source of that wisdom when he picked Joe Biden, the veteran chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, as his vice presid...
Wednesday, Nov 5
The Task Ahead
On Tuesday night, I asked two of the wisest and most broad-minded people I know in Washington what they thought of Obama's prospects. One of them, Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut, had opposed Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination earlier this year. The other, retiring Republica...
Tuesday, Oct 21
Palin and Her Critics
I acknowledge that people will read and respond to Gov. Palin and her achievements differently. It is quite reasonable to suggest she lacks the resume expected of a presidential candidate, although two terms as governor of Arkansas for Bill Clinton and one term as governor of Georgia for J...
Monday, Sep 29
The Long Reach of a Depression
Much has been made of the so-called culture wars here in America. The McCain-Palin ticket represents one culture and Obama-Biden another. But this clash is not about culture per se-- otherwise, how could the mother of an unwed pregnant teenager be the conservative while her opponents, as...
Friday, Aug 29
The Main Event: McCain-Palin vs. Obama-Biden
Republican John McCain shook up the presidential race with his surprise choice of little-known Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate on Friday. Democrat Barack Obama, entering a crucial stage of the campaign fresh off his historic ...
