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Jamie Dupree's Washington Insider Archive for May 2008
Blog Entries for Thursday, May 29
Democratic Leaders Make Their Move
Top Democrats in the Congress gave the signal publicly on Thursday to uncommitted superdelegates: Make up your mind quickly after the primaries end next Tuesday. Worried about a situation in which Hillary Clinton hangs on even longer, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have been making ...
Strange Rumblings From McClellan
I will say once again, that of all the visible people who have worked in the White House during the George W. Bush Administration, I think Scott McClellan would never have been my choice to write a tell-all insider book. Clearly, he must have been personally crushed that he was ...
Florida and Michigan
I'll say it again: Too bad Florida and Michigan didn't decide to have a replay primary, because it would certainly give us a furious finish to the Democratic Presidential race. IInstead, a bunch of party officials will sit in a hotel ballroom in Washington, D.C., trying figure out how to ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, May 28
Just When It Seemed Over
I knew I shouldn't have let myself think that somehow Barack Obama was going to lock up the Democratic nomination by next Tuesday's final contests on June 3. I should have known better than to think this would just end cleanly.That's because when the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws ...
Puzzled And Disappointed
The White House wasted no time fighting back on Wednesday as the buzz billowed in Washington, D.C. over former Press Secretary Scott McClellan's book, "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception." "He is puzzled," current Press Secretary Dana Perino said of Mr. Bush, "he ...
Tick Tock On Iraq
In any Presidential campaign, there are gambits, gimmicks and more that are used by each side in the heat of battle. Most of them go nowhere, but sometimes they catch on. This week John McCain and the national Republican Party joined in a two pronged attack on Barack Obama over ...
Blog Entries for Tuesday, May 27
More Presidential Fundraising
After doing one event with John McCain, President Bush will headline two more fundraisers for the GOP standard bearer today in Utah. Yesterday's event in Phoenix wasn't seen by TV cameras or reporters (of course that didn't stop a major leak about Barack Obama earlier this year) as McCain and ...
From Our Listener Mailbag
Every day that goes by, I sometimes wonder, why is it taking so long for Barack Obama to wrap up the Democratic nomination? Wednesday didn't move the ball down the field very much on the Democratic Delegate Scoreboard, as we wait for the Illinois Senator to finally end this race.Obama ...
It Won't Be Liberation-Gate
One thing that email has done is make the back and forth of the presidential campaign even speedier, which must be why my Blackberry battery is shot by 2 pm every day. One of the many examples came on Tuesday, as the Republican National Committee grabbed onto news reports ...
Blog Entries for Monday, May 26
The Never Ending Democratic Race
Maybe, just maybe, the final two primaries one week from today on June 3 will bring this Democratic race to an end. Then again, maybe not. As Bill Clinton set off another storm of headlines Monday after saying that Barack Obama will lose the general election to John McCain, while his ...
The McCain And Bush Dance
As President Bush goes to Phoenix to raise money for GOP standard bearer John McCain today, you will hear lots of media jabbering about whether they will appear in public together. Before everyone gets on their high horses and starts accusing the media of bashing the GOP, this is exactly ...
No "Recess" For The U.S. Senate
The US Senate is in session this week, even as Congress is on a week long break, but Senators aren't really working. Since late 2007, Senate Democrats have refused to let the Senate officially adjourn while Congress is taking a vacation, preventing the President from making an end run on the ...
Blog Entries for Sunday, May 25
Delegate Scoreboard Update
If you took off the weekend from the news, you didn't miss much in the all important numbers game of the Democratic Presidential race. Only a handful of superdelegates put their cards on the table this weekend, as the story line was no different than in recent weeks, with Barack ...
Bob Barr, Libertarian Nominee
If you weren't tuned in to C-SPAN over the weekend, you missed a multi-ballot nomination fight at the Libertarian Party convention in Denver, as former Republican Congressman Bob Barr of Georgia was picked after six ballots. Barr edged Mary Ruwart 324-276 on the final ballot to gain the top spot ...
Good Thing It Was A Holiday Weekend
As I was rushing with the family out the door to go to an early dinner on Friday evening, my blackberry was already humming over the Hillary Clinton reference to Robert F. Kennedy as to why she was still in the Democratic race for President. At dinner, none of us politcally ...
Blog Entries for Thursday, May 22
McCain, The Pastors And Vets
There's no way to compare the Rev. Wright-Barack Obama story with the Rev. Hagee-John McCain story, but both of them did what they had to do, as McCain joined Obama in tossing a religious man under the campaign bus. In fact, McCain threw two of them overboard, as he rejected ...
The Great Energy Policy Debate
I guess I surprised some people in recent days when they asked me when Congress would act on high oil and gasoline prices. My answer was not anytime soon. Congress bashed oil executives when gasoline hit $2/gallon, when it hit $3/gallon and now at $4/gallon. All the while, both parties ...
Making Hillary Clinton's Argument
Hillary Clinton's argument to superdelegates has been fairly simple. She can defeat John McCain in key swing states, while Barack Obama cannot. While there is certainly a lot of time for Obama to swing things his way in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania, a new poll out on Thursday gave voice ...
Blog Entries for Wednesday, May 21
Rushing To Memorial Day
It's a typical Thursday before a Congressional recess, as the House and Senate try to finish action on a series of high profile legislative items, ranging from money for Iraq to a farm bill that might have been vetoed but not really vetoed. A bunch of headlines should erupt in ...
No Superdelegate Rush Yet
Once again, the Delegate Scoreboard Report from Wednesday can only be described as something out of the Big Ten's Football Playbook - 3 yards and a cloud of dust. Barack Obama added a couple more superdelegates, while Hillary Clinton grabbed one more, as Obama moved closer (again) toward the magic ...
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