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In the Loop: A Gay Pride Party at the Baghdad Embassy
March 10, 2010Change has certainly come to Baghdad. And it appears that includes the U.S. Embassy, where they are holding what the invitation says is the first-ever U.S. Embassy Gay Pride Theme Party next Friday at Baghdaddy's, which is the embassy employee association's pub.
In the Loop: Finally, a Junket Where the Press Is Invited
March 10, 2010For years we've been told that no reporters were permitted to join our intrepid lawmakers on congressional jaunts to find facts overseas. There were vague references to some Senate Rule 406.4(x)1, which reads: "Members should not take the press on thinly veiled, taxpayer-paid vacations." (There's a similar House rule.)
In the Loop: The Not-So-Persuasive Liz Cheney
March 10, 2010 We now know at least one reason former vice president Dick Cheney was taking the Acela up to New York on Monday morning: He was going to attend a debate on U.S. policy on Iran where his daughter Liz Cheney, former principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, was arguing for the proposition that "Diplomacy With Iran Is Going Nowhere."
In the Loop: Cheney and Tenet, Like Strangers on a Train
March 10, 2010Spotted Monday on the 10 a.m. Acela, sitting in first class, were ex-colleagues Dick Cheney and George Tenet.
From the President, Some Red Meat for a Conservative Bastion
March 10, 2010It was a mixed week at best for President Obama. Democrats hammered him for even the meager cuts he proposed to their pet programs in his $3.4 trillion spending plan, vowing to reinstate every dime. Republicans hammered him for making such, well, meager cuts.
In the Loop: Need an Office? Norm Coleman's Is Available.
March 10, 2010A passerby recently snapped a shot of Norm Coleman's office in St. Paul, Minn., which, it seems, is on the market. A few days ago, Coleman's name was removed from the door, though the Senate office designation remained.
In the Loop: Specter Once Sang a Different Tune on Party-Switching
March 10, 2010 Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.), had a pretty good sense of the trauma he was inflicting on his party and his Republican colleagues when he defected last week. He's felt their pain, so to speak, at least judging from his comments on the Senate floor back in 2001, when Sen. Jim Jeffords left the GOP and handed the Democrats control of the Senate.
In the Loop: The Intelligence Agency Where the Logo's the Thing
March 10, 2010Seems Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair and CIA Director Leon Panetta haven't been seeing eye to eye of late on a number of minor matters -- such as who's in charge of the intelligence community.
In the Loop: Gov. Sanford Gets Guidance From a Biblical Source
March 10, 2010 A stunningly ungrateful media continued pounding on ruined South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) over the weekend, displaying not a whit of appreciation for his giving them a great story of self-delusion and political collapse. The churlish press went into overdrive Friday in mocking Sanford when he continued apologizing, this time to his Cabinet, and he then compared his adultery and lying to King David's waywardness in the Bible.
In the Loop: Republicans' Favorite Mark Sanford Jokes
March 10, 2010The extraordinary Mark Sanford saga has produced a never-ending stream of excellent fodder for late-night talk show hosts, political quipsters and the like. Democrats, naturally, have been having the most fun, but even some Republican strategists have seen the bizarre ironies surrounding Sanford's political demise.
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