Tom Watson: My Dirty Life & Times

To witness Joan Walsh's destruction of a boorish Chris Hitchens on Hardball tonight was to be put in mind of Sarah Palin's infamous pre-Thanksgiving turkey video: as Chris Matthews blathered on app...

The liberal blogosphere has gone decidedly bi-polar in the Great Transition. On one side are the believers, betrothed to an image they conjured between the lines of conventional centrism, a group t...

Last night on the Tonight Show, Chris Matthews announced that he was in the tank for one candidate while ostensibly "covering" the race for President. Tonight on his MSNBC show, Matthews admitted t...

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Things have been a bit light in these parts of late, but I've actually been writing quite a bit in some other locales, so here's a handy pocket guide to some of the headlines:Over at newcritics, I...

Transition transmission: The news that President-Elect Obama has apparently offered the State Department to former rival Hillary Clinton sent some their old primary supporters back the center of th...

That President-elect Obama made his first important appointment a hard-nosed former Clintonista insider from Chicago famed for his salty language and sharp partisan elbows has voices left and right...

I was very much taken with this section of President-elect Obama's speech after midnight last evening. In a relatively short passage, he sums up the long journey and recognizes the enormity of the ...

That seems to be the key phrase of this evening in wonkland, as poll-watchers - professional, semi-pro and Stratomatic - devour the early numbers. Some of the most bullish numbers hail from countie...