Willard's slash and burn bid to become a radical evangelical by 2008 is affecting his popularity across the state. From the Springfield Republican's editorial page yesterday: "Gov. W. Mitt Romney's thumbs-down action on retroactive pay … [Read more...]
DFA Makes Cambridge Endorsements
Democracy for America Cambridge has endorsed Jesse Gordon, Sam Seidel, Ken Reeves and Denise Simmons for Cambridge City Council. The decision came after a week of voting (both online and offline) preceded by about a month's worth of … [Read more...]
Espionage Act now front and center in Novak-Plame-gate
For the longest time, almost everyone, including people who know a whole lot about Novak-Plame-gate, were assuming that the only criminal statute that might have been violated by outing Valerie Plame as a CIA agent was the … [Read more...]
Murray Waas on Rove and Plame
Murray Waas continues to do some of the most interesting reporting on Novak-Plame-gate. Today he reports both in the National Journal and on his own blog that Karl Rove has been lying his ass off to the President, as well as to … [Read more...]
I’ll take Stockholm
So, the Nobel prizes have been coming out this week, physics blah blah blah, peace yadda yadda whatnot.Look, genocidal radio-liar Jay Severin awarded himself a Pulitzer. Bill O'Reilly nabbed two Peabodys -- by "nabbed", I mean he … [Read more...]
Hatching new Democrats
There's already been some response to a new report by Dem analysts William A. Galston and Elaine C. Kamarck (the latter of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government), which says that Dems need to "move to the center" -- wherever the … [Read more...]
The Espionage Act – at last!
This story in the NY Times is, for the most part, similar to a number of other reports indicating that Karl Rove has been summoned back to the Novak-Plame-gate grand jury, and that it's possible that Judith Miller, Scooter Libby, and heaven … [Read more...]
“Is she the most qualified person? Clearly, the answer to that is ‘no.'”
Thus spake Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) of Harriet Miers today. And Lott's direct contradiction of what President Bush said yesterday was, apparently, one of the nicer things that conservatives said about her today. Tomorrow's WaPo … [Read more...]
Interesting new UMass poll: good news and bad news
A State House source called my attention to this new poll conducted by UMass between Sept. 19 and 27 (methodology is here; most results are +/- 5%). Here are some key numbers:Regarding the proposed 2008 ballot question that would ban … [Read more...]
The agenda for the coming months
From the indispensible Adam Reilly of the Phoenix, a great article on Speaker DiMasi and Senate Prez Travaglini. Here's what folks who take interest in the day-to-day may need to know [my emphasis throughout]:Right now, the legislature is … [Read more...]