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In the Loop: A Cruise in the Right Direction
March 20, 2010 Republicans are said to be experiencing their winter of discontent, aimlessly adrift and trying to get their bearings after a couple of tough campaign cycles. So why not join like-minded folks and be literally adrift, on a luxury cruise ship meandering for 10 days in the Mediterranean and the Adriatic?
In the Loop: A Gay Pride Party at the Baghdad Embassy
March 20, 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 20, 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 20, 2010We 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 20, 2010 Spotted Monday on the 10 a.m. Acela, sitting in first class, were ex-colleagues Dick Cheney and George Tenet.
In the Loop: Obama Administration Filling Top Jobs Quickly
March 20, 2010The Obama administration is closing in on its first six months in office -- the apparently insignificant first 200 days will end Aug. 7, as the Senate takes off for its summer break. And while it appears that the pace of nominations has slacked off a bit of late, the White House team is easily within range of setting the world indoor record for nominations to the topmost ranks of the bureaucracy in the first half-year in office.
In the Loop: The Intelligence Agency Where the Logo's the Thing
March 20, 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 20, 2010A 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 20, 2010 The 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.
In the Loop: Gorbachev Sings!
March 20, 2010Step aside, Paul McCartney. Move over, Alicia Keys. And The Jonas who? The latest megastar on the music scene -- and surely the only one who gets $165,000 (per CD!) -- is Mikhail Gorbachev, former leader of the Soviet Union.
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