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Amy Sullivan
Amy Sullivan is a Chicago-based journalist who has written about religion, politics, and culture as a senior editor for Time, National Journal, and Yahoo. She was an editor at the Washington Monthly from 2004 to 2006.
Posted inPolitical Animal, Politics
there’s a word for that
THERE’S A WORD FOR THAT….This just in: President Bush changed his stance today on his close adviser Karl Rove, stopping well short of promising that anyone in his administration who helped to unmask a C.I.A. officer would be fired. “If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration,” Mr. Bush said […]
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Because It Went Over So Well the First Time
BECAUSE IT WENT OVER SO WELL THE FIRST TIME….If you didn’t get enough of Justice Sunday, hold onto your hats, because Justice Sunday II is on the way. Seriously. Crazy Zell Miller is already signed up to headline ? no word on whether Bill Frist will make a return appearance. I have to admit, I’m […]
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Minds made up
MINDS MADE UP….In recent American political history, we’ve seen exactly one instance of a national figure successfully pulling off an image transformation. That was Richard Nixon, between 1960 (possibly, 1964) and 1968, when he won the presidency. He did it in large part by dropping out of the public eye for a number of years. […]
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Hillary in 2008?
And that’s when Lazio decided to take matters into his hands and make the race about Clinton whether she liked it or not. His campaign put together a commercial intended to target her biggest vulnerability: white suburban women. All throughout the campaign, this demographic had been the most skeptical; in focus groups, even women who […]
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House Divided
Desperate times, however, call for desperate measures. In early June, the late hours that this job requires finally got to me, and I decided the time had come to ditch my cheap but far-off apartment for one closer to the office. Which is how, several days later, I found myself standing in the kitchen of […]
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it’s official
IT’S OFFICIAL….The House is down, just the Senate to go. House Republicans voted overwhelmingly to permanently repeal the estate tax–at a cost, let’s remember, of nearly $300 billion over the next decade. So, to sum up: Actual prescription drug relief? There’s no money. Armor to protect our troops? There’s no money. The funds to back […]
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the communitarian challenge
THE COMMUNITARIAN CHALLENGE….Perhaps I should have stuck to my original plan, which was to recommend this Noam Scheiber column on “an emerging Democratic split between social libertarians, who emphasize privacy,” and what he calls “communitarians.” (Small disclaimer: Noam Scheiber is not just a writer I admire, but also my boyfriend.) What Noam outlines is a […]
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SIGH….I’m going to give Matt the benefit of the doubt and assume that he was just providing a helpful demonstration of what those “cultural elites” Dan Gerstein referred to yesterday might sound like. (If you want more examples, take a stroll through our comments, bearing in mind that they represent less than one-tenth of one […]
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what is john harris talking about?
WHAT IS JOHN HARRIS TALKING ABOUT?….I’m not sure why the Washington Post is running this piece at all, much less on Tuesday’s front page, even if John Harris is usually an astute political observer. The headline is “Recent Washington Scandals Test ‘Honesty Is the Best Policy’”, and Harris asserts that lately politicians are learning that […]
