Out of Kentucky comes one of the biggest problems of the secret campaign donors the Supreme Court has allowed: In the bitter U.S. Senate race in Kentucky, a local millionaire has helped launch a barrage of ads attacking the Democratic candidate a candidate who, as the state’s attorney general, is prosecuting the businessman’s nursing home […]
A little, unknown federal agency called the “Office of Special Counsel” is preparing to investigate Rove. The LA Times gives us this description of the OSC: Most of the time, an obscure federal investigative unit known as the Office of Special Counsel confines itself to monitoring the activities of relatively low-level government employees, stepping in […]
This weekend amazed me. During all the talk shows hardly a word was mention about the resignation of Susan Ralston. Instead all focus was on the Foley scandal yet again. Ralston’s resignation is equally, if not more, important than Foleygate. Ralston was Karl Rove’s top aide. You could say she was to Karl Rove what […]
With a little over four months to go, things are going to really heat up for the mid-term elections: White House political strategist Karl Rove emerges from the CIA leak case with his reputation scuffed, his power slightly diminished, and Republicans counting on him, once again, to help rescue their House and Senate majorities. Described […]
The last few days it seems all we have heard about is Bush’s big meeting at Camp David. Yesterday the New York Times put a little perspective on what is going on there. President Bush gathered top aides at Camp David here on Monday to calibrate the best way forward in Iraq during what the […]