Friday Talking Points [60] -- Democratic Assertiveness Training
What a week! With Congress back in session, with the excitement of newly-elected members being sworn in (or barred at the door, as the case may be), ...
What a week! With Congress back in session, with the excitement of newly-elected members being sworn in (or barred at the door, as the case may be), ...
Chris Weigant | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
This doesn't sound a whole lot like "change we can believe in." This sounds more like same-old-same-old cronyism and pay-to-play.
Phil Bronstein | Posted 01.07.2009 | Media
Remember all those analyses a few months ago wondering whether we'd ever be able to make fun of a president again in an Obama world? How fast the curtain goes up on the political stand-up stage.
AP | ERICA WERNER and PAMELA HESS | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., the incoming chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said Wednesday she intends to support Pre...
Jane Hamsher | Posted 01.07.2009 | Politics
A seventy-one year old dude who hasn't held office for 14 years, appointed by a crook, has taken the Senate Majority Leader to the cleaners.
AP | LAURIE KELLMAN and ERICA WERNER | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Roland Burris failed to capture President-elect Barack Obama's old Senate seat Tuesday in a wild piece of political theater, but th...
Tom D'Antoni | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
The next time you find yourself getting pissed off at Obama, say these words out loud,"George Bush."
William Bradley | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
To say Panetta is a Clinton retread is to ignore his actual background. He comes out of a tradition which is almost forgotten today, that of the liberal Republican.
Kristen Breitweiser | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
Placing an inexperienced person like Leon Panetta at CIA for his clean hands and "managerial expertise" will cost lives on the day of the next domestic terrorist attack.
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
The Obama transition team made a mistake by not consulting with Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California before choosing Leon Panetta to head th...
RJ Eskow | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
Panetta opponents warn us that insiders will run circles around him. They're forgetting about the man to whom Mr. Panetta will report.
Phil Trounstine | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
Having frozen Panetta out of the California governor's race in 1998 by not deciding whether to run until he had no chance of lining up financial backing, now would be a good time to stand aside and let him rise to the occasion.
John McQuaid | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
I don't quite understand why Feinstein and Rockefeller are objecting to Obama's pick, Leon Panetta. As objections go, theirs are weak. There is no reason that the CIA director has to be an intelligence expert.
Art Brodsky | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics
Obama comes into office with a clear election mandate, and the last thing he needs is the public view of a bunch of squabbling Democrats (see: Burris, Roland) doing the GOP's work for it.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics
If Dianne Feinstein's real goal was to protect us from Iraq's alleged WMD's, she would have called for the withdrawal of troops once they invaded and discovered that there weren't such weapons after all.
Washington Independent | Posted 01.05.2009 | Politics
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democrat who's about to take the reins as chairwoman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, doesn't app...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics
With slightly less than a month and a half to go before Barack Obama's inauguration, Washington, D.C. has officially reached the "freakout" point on the Richter scale of event planning.
New York Times | Scott Shane And Mark Mazzetti | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics
After some bloggers raised concerns that Senator Dianne Feinstein might be shifting her stance on the issue of American interrogation policy, the Cali...
Chris Weigant | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics
Brian Williams, NBC's talking head extraordinaire, is probably a decent guy, a guy with whom you could sit down and have a beer. [More on the alcohol...
Salon | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics
Time constraints prevented me yesterday from writing about Dianne Feinstein's comments concerning torture in yesterday's New York Times, in which the ...
New York Times | Posted 11.23.2008 | Politics
Dianne Feinstein is not sure she'll ever be able to watch the movie "Milk," even though she's in it. ... I asked Senator Feinstein, who became mayor...
Gavin Newsom | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics
We have less than 24 hours to protect the freedom to marry by persuading every single person we know to vote NO on Prop. 8 in California.
Lane Hudson | Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics
At a time when Prop 8 threatens to deal an enormous setback to the fight for equality for the LGBT community, politicians have been silent for far too long. One of those politicians is you.
Chris Weigant | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
Back in Volume 36 of this Friday Talking Points column, I pointed out what seemed to me to be an obvious observation -- that the media was going a lot...
Chris Weigant | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
Nobody seriously annoyed me this week, but I will launch a pre-emptive finger-wagging, to anyone on the left who can't resist the urge to be disrespectful of Tim Russert's memory right now.
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Chris Weigant | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics