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Quick Turnaround
John McCain just announced that we can succeed in Afghanistan in a mere 12 to 18 months, if only President Obama would get off his butt and send the 40,000 soldiers....
What It Still Says About McCain
It's easy to mock the media for the excesses of Sarah Palin Week, but Andrew Sullivan correctly observes that our scorn is better directed at John McCain -- who deserves the blame for foisting Palin on the country -- and...
One Good Democrat
Joe Lieberman's threat to filibuster any Democratic health care reform bill that contains a public option is an ironic coda to all those promises Joe made -- in 2006 after he lost the Democratic primary and again earlier this year...
Breaking the Mold
It's disappointing that so many Republicans, even those in elected office or of high rank, can't manage to muster even a thin graciousness over this award. But John McCain has risen above that. And Nicole Wallace, who was once in...
Slideshow: Qaddafi Does the UN (and much more)
John McCain considers him an affable dinner companion; the US again considers him a world leader in good repute; join us as Muammar Qaddafi does the UN, the G8 and pretty much the whole world in today's TPM Qaddafi slideshow...
TPMtv: Sunday Show Roundup: No Rush
Senator Joe Lieberman says health care reform is a little too difficult to do during an economic recession, so let's just put off the toughest decisions for another day. Plus, will John McCain condemn the "death panel" language used by...
Missing McCain?
Has it really come to this? Watching the current "debate" over healthcare reform, I find myself in the strange position of giving thanks for John McCain. His behavior during the election was anything but classy, but he did refuse to...
Terra of Sarah
I never fail to be amazed and amused that many right-wingers and Palinatics genuinely believe that everyone who thinks Palin is a grifter or a clown is actually afraid of her. As in when Bill Kristol recently wrote that Palin's...
Not a Vote of Support
Sarah Palin, says David Frum, "quit to cash in. Her admirers can excuse anything, but to the much larger audience of non-admirers, Palin will look a lot like those CEOs who wrecked their banks and the national economy while accepting...
TPMDC Fourth Of July Roundup
It seems like old times -- Barack Obama and John McCain release dueling messages on Independence Day. That and other political news in today's TPMDC Fourth of July Roundup....
Meditation for the Day
John McCain and his shrewd judge of character....
Feelin' the Heat
The eight House Republicans who voted FOR the Waxman-Markey climate change bill: Mary Bono (CA) Mike Castle (DE) Mark Kirk (IL) Leonard Lance (NJ) Frank LoBiondo (NJ) John McHugh (NY) David Reichert (WA) Chris Smith (NJ) CQ takes a closer...
Deep Thought
John McCain is the future....
Some Things Never Fail to Surprise
Can it really be true that the list of Americans who will appear on the Sunday shows this weekend is David Petraeus, Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich and John McCain? I guess it really is a center-right nation....
GOP to Rebrand as "Whig" Party
In truly sobering times like this, I appreciate these moments of comic relief. This just out from John King at CNN ... Coming soon to a battleground state near you: a new effort to revive the image of the Republican...
Another View
From TPM Reader JB ... Frankly, your "Junta Party" analogy looks to me like analysis designed to support an epithet. Not an epithet with that much potential, either, since the majority of Americans who do not follow foreign affairs closely...
Handwriting on the Wall
This is pretty amazing. Steve Schmidt, a Karl Rove protege and respected, hardball GOP operative who was brought in last year to run John McCain's campaign is going to tell the GOP they need to just get it over with...
Which Way Is The Wind Blowing Today?
Facing a primary challenge will make you do strange things. Today Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) voted for Sen. John McCain's proposed spending freeze, just seven weeks after he voted for Obama's stimulus package....
Deep Thought
John McCain still not happy about losing the election....
She Should Go Far
John McCain best pal Carly Fiorina ... "If we don't change, we're going to go back to the old ways, and we're going to continue to lose," said Maldonado, who faulted the party's hard line against illegal immigration. "They don't...
