Jim Messina probably shouldn’t talk about first day Presidential promises.

    Head Obama for America flack Jim Messina’s got yet another reeking-of-desperation fundraising email out complaining that – Prepared to be terrified, folks! – the GOP candidates are all promising to take a stake through the heart of Obamacare and kill it dead, dead, dead on their first day in office.  This is, of course, a fringe position – if one can define ‘fringe’ as ‘supported | Read More »

    The impossible Gitmo deadline: 24 hours?

    It wasn’t until I read this AoSHQ post about the delay in the detention report (preliminary details here) that I started counting off the months on my fingers.  Six months from July 21st makes… January 21st, more or less. The work of a Justice Department-led task force, which had been scheduled to send a report on detention policy to President Obama on Tuesday, will be | Read More »