Commentary

By David Adesnik • Feb 03,2009

NY Times calls for Daschle to withdraw (Update: He’s gone)

Check it: We believe that Mr. Daschle ought to step aside and let the president choose a less-blemished successor. The WaPo is more forgiving: Mr. Daschle deserves to be judged...

By David Adesnik • Feb 03,2009

New RNC chairman talks about new ideas

Michael Steele on Fox News Sunday: [CHRIS] WALLACE: But do you need to show Americans that you have new solutions… STEELE: Absolutely. WALLACE: … to their daily kitchen-table concerns? STEELE:...

By Damir Marusic • Feb 03,2009

Capitalism and Conservatism

Sam Tanenhaus has a good, provocative piece out at TNR. People more up on the intricacies and history of partisan politics in America will surely be chiming in during the...

By David Donadio • Feb 03,2009

Republicans, geese, jet engines, exploding debt, pork, Oscar Meyer, bank bailouts….Good grief this is insufferable. How many mixed metaphors can you take? It’s hard to take Republican leaders too seriously...

By Sonny Bunch • Feb 03,2009

Ward 3 Strikes Back!

Ward 3 Councilwoman Mary Cheh, on David Brooks: “I do have something of a reaction. He’s made his living lobbing uninformed insults at various communities. He lives by these broad...

By David Adesnik • Feb 03,2009

On being the Secretary of Commerce

Krauthammer: Really, the job is not really worth a pitcher of warm spit, to quote a famous vice president years ago. It a second- level job in the cabinet. It...

NY Times calls for Daschle to withdraw (Update: He’s gone)

New RNC chairman talks about new ideas

Capitalism and Conservatism

Worst lede of the day

Ward 3 Strikes Back!

On being the Secretary of Commerce