Memo to Dan Bartlett: The next time George W. Bush falls ill after meeting with Vladimir Putin, don’t suggest that the president thinks it might have been “something he ate.” The soon-to-be-former White House counselor is backtracking now, saying that the president is feeling better and claiming that it was Bartlett, not Bush, who suggested that whatever he ate might have been the cause of what ailed him.
Meet Sarah Palin’s radical right-wing palsExtremists Mark Chryson and Steve Stoll helped launch Palin’s political career in Alaska, and in return had influence over policy. “Her door was open,” says Chryson — and still is.
How the election ate daytime television
Going for broke in PennsylvaniaThe modern Beltway journalist compulsively asserts equivalencies between each side without regard to whether they are actually the same.
Finally, he kinda sorta challenges supporters who are sliming Barack Obama.
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