http://time-blog.com/political_bite/ Not-your-everyday political coverage, everyday. Hosted By Ana Marie Cox en Copyright 2007 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:31:49 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The White House briefing room can be a surprisingly jolly place. Like any workplace, there are running jokes, nicknames, petty rivalries and a whole host of other topics that regularly prompt genial laughter from the cheap seats. Under Press Secretary... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/11/tony_tony_tony_when_it_comes_t_1.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/11/tony_tony_tony_when_it_comes_t_1.html Mon, 06 Nov 2006 14:31:49 -0500 By David Weigel Tomorrow most of Washington will be proven completely, hilariously wrong, unless they had the sense to say nothing. A selected few will have guessed correctly, but most of the pundits who modeled and wargamed the elections across... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/11/put_it_all_on_blue_election_ga.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/11/put_it_all_on_blue_election_ga.html Mon, 06 Nov 2006 13:40:10 -0500 by Ana Marie Cox Perhaps you've heard about John Kerry telling young people to get an education lest they "get stuck in Iraq." Classic elitist liberal stereotyping. (Public relations officials will assure you that the new "Army Strong" slogan is... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/opposite_day_kerry_takes_a_sta_1.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/opposite_day_kerry_takes_a_sta_1.html Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:07:25 -0500 by Ana Marie Cox How long is "an eternity in politics"? According to news coverage of these midterms, it's anywhere from "five weeks" to "overnight" with stops along the way at "thirty days," "thirteen days" and "a week." Most of... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/eternity_eludes_us_do_absentee_1.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/eternity_eludes_us_do_absentee_1.html Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:24:47 -0500 A conservative blog is claiming that "Democrats" planted a "forged" RNC anti-Harold Ford ad specifically to gin up allegations of racism. What's the phrase again? "Interesting, if true"? (Not entirely SFW, btw...) You have to hear the boom-changa-changa porn soundtrack... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/not_to_spoil_the_youtube_after.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/not_to_spoil_the_youtube_after.html Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:55:08 -0500 by Greg Beato Back in the Dial-Up Ages, when the megabytes flowed like Mogen-David at a George Allen seder, even a 20-page educational technology plan white-paper was a less excruciating campaign tool than a 28.8 Kbps attack ad. Aspiring revolutionaries... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/an_army_of_david_zuckers.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/an_army_of_david_zuckers.html Thu, 26 Oct 2006 16:57:14 -0500 by Ana Marie Cox 1. The difference between a "benchmark" and a "timetable" is that benchmarks will help you win, whereas "Withdrawing on an artificial timetable means we lose." Corallary: The difference between "winning" and "losing" in Iraq is whether... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/five_things_we_learned_from_th.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/five_things_we_learned_from_th.html Wed, 25 Oct 2006 13:11:31 -0500 Political junkies -- a term used to define anyone who pays attention to electoral politics before Halloween -- have been enjoying the campaign antics of Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) and Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) for month. Now, with the election... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/fear_and_loafing_on_the_campai.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/fear_and_loafing_on_the_campai.html Tue, 24 Oct 2006 14:29:26 -0500 by Ana Marie Cox The big debate within the Republican party today has less to do with how to vote than whether to vote at all. And as the interparty rhetoric has heated up in recent past, so has the... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/vote_die_others_die_none_of_th.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/vote_die_others_die_none_of_th.html Mon, 23 Oct 2006 12:35:27 -0500 by Ana Marie Cox I was watching "Meet the Press" when Tim Russert cajoled Barack Obama into admitting he would possibly consider a presidential run. It was a quiet statement, made in a manner both reluctant and calculating, just vague... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/obamania.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/obamania.html Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:51:38 -0500 by Ana Marie Cox By now you've probably seen the new Republican National Committee ad, "The Stakes." It's a kind of homage to Johnson's "Daisy" ad, though less, uhm, subtle. The RNC "earned" some media coverage of the ad by... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/the_rare_stakes.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/the_rare_stakes.html Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:14:11 -0500 by Greg Beato "The Night of Bush Capturing" may sound like a sexytime dream collaboration between horny Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev and Joe Francis of "Girls Gone Wild" fame, but alas, it isn't. Instead, it's a first-person shooter where gamers... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/game_theory_who_wins_in_a_worl.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/game_theory_who_wins_in_a_worl.html Thu, 19 Oct 2006 12:58:10 -0500 by Ana Marie Cox Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is receiving some, ah, blowback today over his decision to characterize the Iraq war in terms of a fantasy book about dwarves. Meeting with the editorial board of the Bucks County Courier... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/by_great_odins_hammer.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/by_great_odins_hammer.html Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:07:35 -0500 by David Weigel Stephen Colbert, as usual, was the only pundit with the balls to tell the truth. When he booked former Navy Secretary James Webb on his satirical talk show six months ago, Colbert puzzled over how an award-winning... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/you_can_fool_some_of_the_pundi.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/you_can_fool_some_of_the_pundi.html Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:44:11 -0500 by Nick Gillespie On the off chance that you want to escape, however briefly, from uncomfortable double-entendre, Three's Company-quality headlines such as "Ex-FBI director won't probe congressional page system," chew on a different sort of moral panic involving youth, uncontrolled... http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/dont_do_as_scoobydoo_televisio.html http://time-blog.com/political_bite/2006/10/dont_do_as_scoobydoo_televisio.html Wed, 11 Oct 2006 16:59:08 -0500