Bird’s-Eye View

At the Nest today, we took a look over at our colleague’s blog, Smart Remarks, and found the new video of Bill O’Reilly quite compelling. Check it out first then proceed:
http://www.redlasso.com/ClipPlayer.aspx?id=9ca7efa6-5a1d-4443-97be-00cd871b6726
I bring this up because I have to applaud O’Reilly for his line of questioning. The attorney is justifying a ban on gay marriage simply […]

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Caught this in a transcript of Dana Milbank’s chat with Washington Post readers. Thought you might be interested:
Silver Spring, Md.: Wasn’t the McClellan book subject to pre-publication review by the White House? If it was, then the White House is lying about being surprised about ts contents. (That would not surprising.)
Dana Milbank: I am shocked […]

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Senate Republicans in Harrisburg today announced they would not convene a “lame duck” session after the Nov. 4 election. While GOP leaders are hailing this decision as another step in government reform, it ups by one month the deadline for a profound amount of legislation - mainly Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell’s proposals for health care […]

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According to CNN.com, John McCain had this to say about Barack Obama’s lack of appearances in war-torn Iraq:
Presumptive Republican nominee John McCain had strongly criticized Obama earlier in the day for not visiting Iraq in more than two years, and for turning down the Arizona senator’s suggestion that the two should make a joint trip to […]

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Hillary Clinton slipped and mentioned Robert Kennedy’s assassination. Barack Obama said “Auschwitz” when he meant “Buchenwald” when talking about the exploits of a family member in World War II. And John McCain’s had his share of oops moments.
Call me jaded, but I’m sick of all the attention the news pays to these kinds of stories. […]

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The Next noticed today the oil company executives starred in a U.S. Senate hearing about why gasoline prices are in the stratosphere and what to do about it.
Don’t blame us, the oil companies collective said.
They’re victims, too, apparently. From CNN.com:

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Just checked in on the Kentucky results. Hillary Clinton by 35 points, which is no surprise. Here’s what CNN is saying about the exit polls:
Clinton beat Obama across all age groups, income groups and education levels in Kentucky.
Eighty-nine percent of Tuesday’s voters in Kentucky were white, according to the exit polls. Among them, Clinton won […]

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Time’s Michael Scherer provides an interesting analysis about how modern-day White House hopefuls become president:
The conventional wisdom in Washington D.C. has long been that George Bush beat John Kerry in 2004 not by winning, but by making Kerry lose. As conservative activist Grover Norquist once told me, Bush would have lost if he ran against […]

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There’s something stirring in the east. A New Jersey senator is pushing for the state’s governor, John Corzine, to sue in federal court to overturn a federal statute legalizing sports betting in 46 states. As it is, only Nevada, Delaware, Oregon and Montana are permitted to host legalized sports betting, leaving the other 46 states […]

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The League of Women Voters, a non-partisan entity, has sued former Pennsylvania Chief Justice Ralph Cappy. Why? The suit accuses Cappy of a quid pro quo, agreeing to uphold the fledgling slots law in 2005 in favor of the now-infamous legislative pay raise scandal, which also boosted the incomes of judges.
The Associated Press tells us […]

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