Now, to Find Blame for Clinton’s Loss

By way of Memeorandum, I note Sean Wilentz already casting about looking for somewhere beside Hillary Clinton, her past, her policies, her politics and her personality, to place the blame for her loss of the nomination:

Unlike the Republicans, the

The wires are humming just now with the news that Mark Penn, Head cook and bottle washer for the Clinton campaign, has quit. One such story comes form the Washington Post:

ALBUQUERQUE, April 6 — Mark J. Penn quit Sunday

From the Telegraph, today:

Plans for Al Gore to take the Democratic presidential nomination as the saviour of a bitterly divided party are being actively discussed by senior figures and aides to the former vice-president.

The bloody civil war

A not unexpected development, from Gallup, whose Frank Newport says:

A sizable proportion of Democrats would vote for John McCain next November if he is matched against the candidate they do not support for the Democratic nomination. This is

• Honorable Mention at OTB’s Caption Contest. You know, I wonder how many people didn’t get that one. I see Reader got one, too.
  
• Well, all the arguments about how Wrights views are not Obama’s, and that they’re not working

I’ve not turned out a single issue ramble in some months, now, Tonight seems the time.

I’ll say this at the outset; I have been predisposed to not trust what Obama has to say on much of anything in general,

Rich Lowry notes something that’s been unsettling to me the last several days:

When an unimpeachably liberal former vice-presidential candidate of the Democratic party is likened to David Duke by a liberal media hero, the political apocalypse — or at

Conservative Reader makes several good points last night, along the lines of:

He said, it seems as time goes on, we are becoming more and more intolerant of bad behavior. Not that it should be okay to engage in illicit

• Actually Billy, it likely WAS about that. … Allow an illustration: You know,there are a lot of people who figure that the right… IE: the power, to keep and bear arms is one that is directly connected to increased numbers

I note Patrick Healy giving some notice to the building falling down around Hillary Clinton.

Morale is low. After 13 months of dawn-to-dark seven-day weeks, the staff is exhausted. Some have taken to going home early – 9 p.m. –

It’s interesting, watching people avoiding the obvious about the NY Times, and the McCain smear. Roger Simon, for example:

Excuse me for going psychoanalytic, but there was something weirdly self-destructive in the newspaper’s behavior on this matter.

I cannot

For the benefit of those who are new to this blog, I’ll say up front I don’t like John McCain. DOnot mistake this string of comments, therefore as a defense of him. But it will be useful for us to

An amusing article at Captain’s Quarters, today….

Susan Estrich either wants to build credibility as a satirist, or her latest column provides a long-overdue look in the mirror for Democrats. Detecting more a whiff of the so-called Bradley Effect

Joyner has started to note what I predicted…

When I saw the headline “McCain Adviser Won’t Fight Obama,” I surmised that a challenge to duel was being declined. The real story is actually even more bizarre.

A top adviser

Jeanne Cummings over at The Politico:

With John McCain poised to win the Republican nomination, Democrats are already gathering ammunition to use against him in the general election.In more than a few instances, the best fodder has been provided by