Bird’s-Eye View

 
Together we form more friends than Pennsylvania’s senior Senator may have, right now. Republican Arlen Specter was one of three GOP Senators to approve the $838 billion stimulus package, which now lands in a committee of House and Senate leadership charged with drawing up a compromise plan.
I think Specter knows the waters are closing in […]

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I don’t know if any of you noticed, but check out the series of photos from today’s historic meeting of presidents at the White House. Four of the five living presidents consistently stand close together in fraternal order, but one seems to be the runt, the odd duck, the kid excluded from the cool table […]

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In the list of Dave’s Signs of a Troubled Campaign, one item is: Candidate directs disproportionate amount of resources to areas that should support him or her no matter what compared to previous years or weeks.
So how’s this, from CNN.com:
The (Republican National Committee) will be spending more money on television advertising in the next week than […]

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Now it’s right-centrist David Brooks of the New York Times.
According to the Huffington Post, Brooks made the following comment during an event with the Atlantic Monthly, comparing Sarah Palin to President Bush:
[Sarah Palin] represents a fatal cancer to the Republican party. When I first started in journalism, I worked at the National Review for Bill […]

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It’s no wonder why Republican John McCain would want to avoid a vote right now on bailout legislation.
Let’s say some sort of legislation comes out and is approved by the House. It would go to the Senate, and let’s assume the votes breakdown by party. Remember, Democrat Barack Obama by not taking any specific positions […]

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The Obama campaign released an television ad today focused on the closing of the Corning factory in State College, and in no subtle terms blames Republican John McCain (and President Bush) for the job losses. It’s available here.
Update: McCain’s spokesman Paul Lindsay responds:
“John McCain sees job losses as a crisis that demands leadership, but it’s […]

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Stopping by the Nest this mid-afternoon, and I happened upon this poll conducted by the Associated Press and the National Constitution Center. The major finding is:
Two-thirds of Americans oppose altering the balance of power among the three branches of government to strengthen the presidency, even when they thought that doing so would improve the economy […]

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There are two must-reads in recent weeks which will give you an idea how the race for president has arrived at the sometimes absurd, sometimes heated point where Obama struggles to get back on track and McCain is riding the surge of Hurricane Sarah. One is about McCain strategist Steve Schmidt, and the other is […]

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A look around the blogosphere about Republican John McCain’s speech to the Republican National Convention last night.
Gerald F. Seib and Laura Meckler of the Wall Street Journal wrote that Sarah Palin had the easy part - firing up the base - while McCain had to appeal to moderates, independents and even crossover Democrats.
Delegates in the […]

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Did you catch this Associated Press story on A1 of the Intell today?:
The Environmental Protection Agency is telling its enforcement personnel not to talk with congressional investigators and reporters, and even the agency’s own inspector general, according to an internal e-mail provided to The Associated Press.
The June 16 e-mail tells 11 officials in the EPA’s […]

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