Ed Kilgore
After Friday’s Ways & Means Committee hearing, Beltway focus on IRS “scandal” continues unabated. But there are some shifting sands “behind the headlines.” 1. With…
After a wild week, political news settles down into a dull roar, amidst shifting assessments of Scandalmania “behind the headlines.” 1. The first day of…
President Obama responds to the three-headed hydra of “Scandalmania 2013″ on all fronts, and is awarded a “win” of the news cycle by Politico. Figuring out what it…
The “triple play” of scandals (Benghazi, IRS, AP) is now dominating mainstream news coverage to a remarkable degree (there are currently thirty-six separate stories on…
With the sudden ferocious emergence of the story about the Justice Department’s seizure of AP phone records, we now have the BenAP501 “scandal” to deal…
Today’s news is sort of a Republican Disneyland with free admission: the confluence of the Benghazi investigations with the rapidly emerging story of selective IRS…
The political chatter today is almost all about the Benghazi hearings, but there are a few things beyond reflexive partisan reactions that can be divined…
Mark Sanford’s victory in South Carolina and the Benghazi hearings in House are soaking up most newsprint and bandwidth today. For brainfood, it’s helpful to…
It’s a cats-and-dogs sort of political news day so far (probably the most-discussed story is Chris Christie’s lap-band surgery), but there are some more interesting…
Congress is back in session this week, which means actual lawmaking is a theoretical possibility. For the most part, though, it’s mainly contributing to political…