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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for March 2008
Blog Entries for Monday, March 31
Congress Flexes Its Election 2008 Muscles
With the Congress back in town after a two week Easter break, it isn't taking long for leaders of both parties to start throwing their weight around on issues that will certainly play a big role in this year's elections. Today, we have at least two flashpoints that have the ...
Absolutely Everything Is Political This Year
It is important to remember something very important as you think about what role Washington, D.C. plays in a Presidential election year. Everything can be boiled down to politics. And I mean everything. When the Bush Administration rolls out new plans on regulations for the financial markets, the mortgage industry ...
Bowling, Beer and Cheese Steaks
It's a busy day in the Keystone State again today for both Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as they mark three weeks until the next big primary in the race for the Democratic Presidential nomination. Wilkes-Barre is Ground Zero of the campaign on this Tuesday, as voters there will get ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, March 30
Obama, Clinton Still Duking It Out In Texas
I know the Texas Two-Step Primary and Caucus was back on March 4th, but this past weekend, the wrangling continued in the battle for delegates from the Lone Star State, with Barack Obama still hanging on to a narrow lead. Of course, that didn't mean that the Obama and Clinton ...
The Advertising Wars Heat Up In Both Parties
Check your calendar on this March 31st. The Pennsylvania primary still has three weeks left for campaigning. Then it is a break of two weeks after that until Indiana and North Carolina on May 6. Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are advertising in Pennsylvania already. But only Obama is ...
Yet Another Early Exit From The Congress
When I started working on Capitol Hill in 1980 as a Page in the House of Representatives, there was one thing that seemed like an unwritten rule: You didn't resign from the House or Senate in the middle of your term to take a private sector job. That's pretty much ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, March 27
Three Way Presidential Economic Battle
Even as more violence hit Iraq, the three major candidates for President were focusing on what definitely is the number one issue for voters, the economy. Barack Obama got the top billing with a speech in Manhattan on Thursday, where he called for greater oversight of US financial markets. Hillary ...
Whither the Democratic Superdelegates?
Normally, most of us in the Lower 48 wouldn't really care too much about the fact that the sitting Governor of Puerto Rico was charged Thursday with 19 counts of wrongdoing in a campaign finance investigation. Maybe it was the irony involved in that Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila was elected ...
Longshot Odds For New Election Reform Plans
Like the yearly change of the seasons, the arrival of a Presidential election year tends to bring certain subjects to the fore, only to see them quickly recede and then lay dormant for, oh another four years. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) on Thursday served up two of The Greatest Hits ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, March 26
Team Clinton Keeps Talking About Rev. Wright
At first, the Hillary Clinton camp didn't want to touch the controversy involving Barack Obama and his pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright. But that seems to be changing. A day after Clinton told a news conference in Pennsylvania, "I think that given all we have heard and seen, he would not ...
So Much Time, So Many Subjects
With a little less than four weeks until the next primary in Pennsylvania, the realization is setting in that we are in a phase of the Democratic race that most people will probably want to forget as soon as it is over. With no primaries or caucuses to focus on, ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, March 25
Democrats: How The Polls Turn
Last week, there were some poll numbers out that really had me scratching my head, as Hillary Clinton had jumped back into the national lead over Barack Obama. Well, just like the weather in Ireland (wait a few hours and it changes, the saying goes) things have changed in some ...
Back And Forth The Arrows Fly
As I took a few days off around Easter, I tried to get away as much as possible from the daily slings and arrows in the Barack Obama-Hillary Clinton Battle, but like clockwork, the jabs go on with no sign that they'll end anytime soon. In recent days we've had ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, March 20
No Gold Nuggets (Yet) From Hillary's First Lady Schedules
As so often is the case when it comes to stories about big "document dumps" as they are affectionately called in Washington, D.C., the release of Hillary Clinton's schedules from her time as First Lady did not provide any immediate news windfall for the group that requested their release. That ...
Congress And The NCAA Tournament
I gave up years ago on the idea of trying to do work while keeping one eye on the NCAA college basketball tournament, so I'm taking Friday off to enjoy the games without any sort of work guilt. When I started covering Congress as a reporter in the 1980s, the ...
More Disappearing Republicans In Congress
It is not a good year to be a Republican in the US Congress, as the number of GOP lawmakers opting against a re-election run continues to rise, making it more and more difficult for the party to cut into Democratic majorities in the House and Senate. The latest casualty ...
Some New Polls Raise Questions For Democrats
Maybe it's voters re-assessing the Presidential campaign both overall and more specifically on the Democratic side. Or maybe the back-and-forth between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is having a negative effect on the Democrats. It's not odd for three-way political races to change dramatically when two of the candidates start ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, March 19
The Democrats Focus on More Than Pennsylvania
Next on the Democratic Primary schedule is Pennsylvania on April 22, but looking at campaign schedules in coming days, the focus is on what happens after the Keystone State. After Hillary Clinton's detour into Michigan on Wednesday, where she bluntly demanded that Barack Obama get behind the idea of a ...
The Iraq War Anniversary That Fell Flat
I think the thing that struck me the most about the five year anniversary of the start of the Iraq War was the level of media attention to the story. Yes, it was the lead story on Wednesday. Yes, there were pictures of demonstrations in major cities and President Bush ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, March 18
Hillary Clinton Goes to What State Today?
The message popped up on my blackberry minutes after I had given my two kids a bath on Tuesday night. "Hillary Clinton Visits Michigan." I will admit that I sort of shook my head and closed my eyes, like the message was going to get fuzzy and fade away, dream-like.But ...
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