Note Archives
— -- Beginning March 5, 2002—
Monday, December 16, 2002:— Friday, December 13, 2002:— Never Like(d) Him....Lott Has A Gang of 200 Problem
Wednesday, December 11, 2002:— Pixels Trump Politics....Today, on "Inside Politics," Trent Lott, Paul O'Neill, and Steve Friedman....(Just Kidding)
Tuesday, December 10, 2002:— Two Hearts....How Will Messrs. Snow and Friedman Beat As One With Professor Karl
Friday, December 6, 2002:— Man Bites Dog....And This Time, The GOP Is The Man
Thursday, December 5, 2002:— Organize, Organize, Organize....And Stay Hot
Wednesday, December 4, 2002:— The Karl Rove of the Democratic Party....Bill Clinton Plays Washington Square Park
Tuesday, December 3, 2002:— If We Took A Holiday.......Took some time to celebrate / It would be, it would be so nice
Friday, November 14, 2002:— Vacation Special...Gore Interview Excerpts
Thursday, November 14, 2002:— Gore's Announcement: He's In Favor Of Single Payer
Wednesday, November 13, 2002:— Vacation Special...Gore Interview Excerpts
Tuesday, November 5, 2002:— Numbers Stew...A Whirlwind of Polls Points In No Direction
Monday, November 4, 2002:— Numbers Stew...A Whirlwind of Polls Points In No Direction
Thursday, October 31, 2002:— Any Result Will Do...1600 Prepares For Anything And Everything
Wednesday, October 30, 2002:— Lower Consumer Confidence...Raise The Roof
Tuesday, October 29, 2002:— It's George W. Bush's World:And You Are Just Running In It
Monday, October 28, 2002:— One Race:Two Mindsets, One Moment
Friday, October 25, 2002:— Dignified Scurrying:The Things Presidents Do
Thursday, October 24, 2002:— Practice Makes Perfect:If You Practice the Right Thing
Wednesday, October 23, 2002:— About Everything:About Nothing
Tuesday, October 22, 2002:— Teflon MaitenanceNo Stick Takes Work
Monday, October 21, 2002:— News On The Back Burner:Are Americans Paying Attention?
Friday, October 18, 2002:— At This Moment In Time:And Time Is Running Out
Thursday, October 17, 2002:— Guaranteed Minimum Clarity:And Maximum Confusion.
Wednesday, October 16, 2002:— Back To Butter:The Vote's Over...Now the Campaign Begins
Tuesday, October 15, 2002:— This Scrimmage Counts:With Holes In Their Defense, Both Parties Go On the Offense
Monday, October 14, 2002:— The 3 R's: Rules, Ratings, and Right Track/Wrong Track
Friday, October 11, 2002:— Back To Butter:The Vote's Over...Now the Campaign Begins
Thursday, October 10, 2002:— Republican Lite:Democratic Dark
Wednesday, October 9, 2002:— Wacky Wallcatchers:What Shall Stick?
Tuesday, October 8, 2002:— Passion, Money, Labor Strife:The Sopranofication of The Note
Monday, October 7, 2002:— You Want Answers?:All We've Got Are Questions
Friday, October 4, 2002:— Here's The Outrage:The Parties' Security "Wars" Boil Over
Wednesday, October 2, 2002:— Will Democrats Today Take Two Steps Forward Or Two Steps Back
Tuesday, October 1, 2002:— Tiny Steps, Almost Real:
Monday, September 30, 2002:— An Eternity In Politics:Five Weeks From Tomorrow
Friday, September 27, 2002:— The Life and Face of the Party:Who speaks for the opposition today?
Wednesday, September 25, 2002:— The People Versus the Powerful Pundits The Freudian Question: What Do Voters Want?
Tuesday, September 24, 2002:— It's Not Quite "Heathers.": Maybe More "Revenge of the Nerds" or "The Empire Strikes Back"
Friday, September 20, 2002:— War Certainly Ain't Beanbag: Things Are Tough All Over
Wednesday September 18, 2002:— Nationalized Election? Look Who Seems To Be Tryin'
Tuesday, September 17, 2002:— Timing Is Everything Florida Descending; Iraq Ascending
Thursday, September 12, 2002:— Push Reno. A New Season In Florida.
Wednesday, September 11, 2002:— Politics As Usual..... As A Nation Remembers.
Tuesday, September 10, 2002:— Primary Preview September 10
Monday, September 9, 2002:— 7 Days Out of 58.Elites Do Iraq, While Voters Vote
Thursday, September 5, 2002:— Sometimes, Dick Morris Is...Our National Ouija Board.
Monday, August 12, 2002:— This Ain't No "Summit". We Admit We Did Search/Replace (with "Forum") About 7 Times
Thursday, August 8, 2002:— Warren Zevon Redux Send Lawyers, Puns, and Money, and Get Them Out of This
Wednesday, August 7, 2002:— Number Two Steps Out:. President Bush Is In WorldCom Country, But the VP's The One Laying out The Plan today
Friday, August 2, 2002:— Wherever You Go, You Are There.... All about fuzzy mascots and fuzzy accounting.
Thursday, August 1, 2002:— August Is A Beltway State Of Mind Little Rest for Candidates Wanting To Win In November.
Wednesday, July 31, 2002:— Govern in Prose, Campaign in Bawdy Limericks.... Do Politicians Govern or Campaign?
Tuesday, July 30, 2002:— Point 8. How far is Al Gore willing to go for the DLC?
Monday, July 29, 2002:— Security, Responsibility and Community.... Eating the Muppets' dust, the DLC takes Manhattan.
Friday, July 26, 2002:— "I'm Not Going To Accept..." Will President Bush have to veto his own Homeland Security Department?
Thursday, July 25, 2002:— Focused on the Here and Now: President Bush takes on trial lawyers in North Carolina while the GOP churns over the economy.
Wednesday, July 24, 2002:— Archive unavailable.
Tuesday, July 23, 2002:— Be Like Bill: President Bush, like other Republicans before him, has trouble with the political language of hard times.
Monday, July 22, 2002:— The Three "R's": Right Track, Wrong Track (OK, phonetically) and Rubin: Clinton's Treasury Secretary questions the Bush tax cut.
Friday, July 19, 2002:— Archive unavailable.
Thursday, July 18, 2002:— E + H2 Does Not = 40: Bush tries to stay on top of GOP angst over the economy, media scrum on Harken and Halliburton.
Wednesday, July 17, 2002:— Archive unavailable.
Tuesday, July 16, 2002:— Passing the Economic Football Bush Laterals To Greenspan, Yells "No Give Backs!".
Monday, July 15, 2002:— The George W. Bush Stock Market? Does the Bush administration's political sanguinity depend on the market's health?
Friday, July 12, 2002:— That Dog Won't Hunt Vs. That Dog Won't HeelGeorge W. Bush's "old story" gets vetted by a new(ly invigorated) press corps.
Wednesday, July 10, 2002:— You Mess With The Bear, You Get The Horns But polls suggest the GOP's Clinton blame-game will have some resonance.
Tuesday, July 9, 2002:— America, Inc. The Nation's CEO Probably Won't Take Questions After His Speech (wouldn't be prudent).
Monday, July 7, 2002:— The Responsibility Era: If It Feels (Politically) Good, Do It
Monday, July 2, 2002:— $100 Million: The GOP Struggles With Representation But Hopes Vouchers Bring Victory.
June 2002
Friday, June 28, 2002:— Oodles of Boodles: So Much News, It Sure Doesn't Feel Like a Summer Friday.
Thursday, June 27, 2002:— Under God: "Just put the helmet on after you get in the tank, Governor, it will look great!"
Wednesday, June 26, 2002:— Something's Happening Here: What's the Opposite of "Peace and Prosperity?"
Tuesday, June 25, 2002:— He Doth Not Name His Name: NDid the President's Speech Move Him Out of, or Further Into, the Middle East Briar Patch?
Monday, June 24, 2002:— 10 Years After: The Democrats are looking high, low, trying to get that feeling again.
Friday, June 21, 2002:— $100 Million: Neither war nor bombings nor blazing fires keep the Bush/Cheney fundraising machine from churning.
Thursday, June 20, 2002:— Start Writing Your History Books:War on Terror Dominates 21st Century Politics—Or Did It?
Wednesday, June 19, 2002:— The Color of Money: You Give Because you Care, But About What?
Tuesday, June 18, 2002:— Rx for V(ictory):In the Electoral Game of Scissors, Rock, Paper, The White House is Good at Waiting Until the Democrats Show Their Hand.
Monday, June 17, 2002:— Government Power:Who Will Be The Surprise Party Come October?
Friday, June 14, 2002:— It's Karl's World:The best you can hope for is a peek at his data.
Thursday, June 13, 2002:— Washington Talks to Itself:But the voting is done by real people.
Wednesday, June 12, 2002:— Tone Deaf:Distrust is not a river in Egypt.
Tuesday, June 11, 2002:— Political Ground Rule:Remember to touch all your bases.
Monday, June 10, 2002:— Turf Wars and Big Casinos:In politics, the more things remain the same, the less they change.
Notes for June 4 and 6 are unavailable. Friday, June 7, 2002:— Spending the Capital:President Bush's Biggest Legislative Effort Ever
Wednesday, June 5, 2002:— "I love you, Rush" What Got El Rushbo Back On Board?
Monday, June 3, 2002:— Running To Run: Why Americans Think of Them as "Politicians," Not "Office Holders.
May, 2002 Friday, May 31, 2002:— "You know, off 3% is like a wiggle on a 33% trendline," said the Heckled Creator to Monsieur: The Note Does A Friday Alice-in-Wonderland Thingy.
Wednesday, May 29, 2002:— "Organize, Organize, Organize, And Get Hot At The End": Can Democrats do the former if they are worried about the latter?
Thursday, May 28, 2002:— L'Affair Gregory: A Towel Snaps from Presidential Podium All the Way to the Front Row of the Press Section
Thursday, May 23, 2002:— That's Off The Table Too: Democrats don't even want to talk about the war.
Wednesday, May 22, 2002:— "You Said You'd Stand By Me In the Middle of Chapter 3" "But you were up to your old tricks in Chapters 4, 5, 6"*
Tuesday, May 21, 2002:— The Flavor Of The Day Is: Swirl: And Some In Washington Don't Like It
Monday, May 20, 2002:— "If it's all politics, the farm state politics may trump Florida politics." That's What Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ) Told Us. And We Agree.
Friday, May 17, 2002:— It's a Guaranteed Four-Day Story: $But will the 9/11 Flap extend into next week?
Thursday, May 16, 2002:— Hide or Speak: The Bush administration faces a big message test today, but is it a political test, too?
Wednesday, May 15, 2002:— Deliverance: Dueling Banjos of Legislative agendas from two parties fighting for (cue cliché) their political lives.
Tuesday, May 14, 2002:— A Picture Is Worth: $150.00? Some bad publicity? Whatever you can get for it?
Monday, May 13, 2002:— The Politics of Principles: It's All In How You Look At Them.
Friday, May 10, 2002:— War: What Is It Good For? (All Over 30 Sing Out.....; Younger People, Ask for Clarification)
Thursday, May 9, 2002:— $$ + Issues = Ads (On TV) Ok...so what are the issues?
Wednesday, May 8, 2002:— Vanity (un)Fair: When will Dick Gephardt get the glossy treatment?
Tuesday, May 7, 2002:— Middle Out, Base In: Why political scientists don't run campaigns.
Friday, May 3, 2002:— Spelunking: Diving for dollars—but watch those cave-ins.
Thursday, May 2, 2002:— The (Harry S.) Truman ShowOr, the (Bill) Clinton Show, or, the (George W.) Bush Show: The One Where Defiance Is Shown
Wednesday, May 1, 2002:— Midtern ExamThe President faces a test.
April, 2002
Tuesday, April 30, 2002:— Com)passion is No Ordinary WordBy His Heart, You Can Know this President
Monday, April 29, 2002:— Washington's Best P.R. Firm: But who is it?
Friday, April 26, 2002:— Raging Bulls Versus Cautious Cat:Foggy Bottom's fiefdom is challenged.
Thursday, April 25, 2002:— Don't Make Me Mad:The New York Times As Saudi Bulletin Board.
Wednesday, April 24, 2002:— The Political Centers of the Universe: South Dakota and Harlem, with more in common than you think.
Tuesday, April 23, 2002:— The VP V.P. The Very Powerful Vice President, Dick Cheney.
Monday, April 22, 2002:— The Return of Ozone Man: With dueling, campaign-style events, Earth Day is more like Groundhog Day.
Friday, April 19, 2002:— Promise Keepers President Bush made the list, and we'll check it...regularly.
Thursday, April 18, 2002:— All Plugged Up: For once, a big Bush speech fails to remove the clog.
Wednesday, April 17, 2002:— Trinity of Trouble President Bush Focuses Like a Laser Beam...on Foreign Policy
Tuesday, April 16, 2002:— PAC Day! Or; Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better.
Monday, April 15, 2002:— Not A Resolution In Sight (Happy Patriot's Day, Washington!)
Thursday, April 11, 2002:— The Garanimalization Of America's Mideast Policy: Some See Madness; Orin Sees Method.
Note: Archives for April 9, 10, and 12 are not available at this time.
Monday, April 8, 2002:— It's the Middle East: Stupid. Oil, Water, Gas Prices, Economy, Politics. It all mixes together.
Friday, April 5, 2002— Just One Brook:That's all it took. (For now).
Thursday, April 4, 2002— Fuzzy Focus:The press(ure) on the White House seems less intense today.
Wednesday, April 3, 2002— Not Black and White:A complex conflict is giving the Manichean president a headache.
Tuesday, April 2, 2002— Homeland Insecurity: It sure doesn't feel like this story is ending anytime soon.
Monday, April 1, 2002— Knots: The Middle East is an enormous challenge for all, but its effect on domestic politics isn't easily discerned.
March 2002
Thursday, March 28, 2002— Olson's Law: The solicitor general faces a dilemma.
Wednesday, March 27, 2002— Stealth Signing: Dashing out the door, the King of Hard Money Leaves Behind a John Hancock.
Tuesday, March 26, 2002— Every Day, We Write the Note: Chapter One: How the SouthBecame the Center of the Political Universe.
Monday, March 25, 2002— "Permanent" Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry: Why Washington is like third grade: it's all about recess.
Thursday, March 21, 2002— Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Whose lives will the President change more: steel workers or Washington lobbyists? And at what costs?
Wednesday, March 20, 2002— "Change Versus More of the Same": Don't Forget Health Care." "What were the other two things on the wall of the Clinton '92 War Room, Alex?"
Tuesday, March 19, 2002— Rahmbo Roulette: Is it good or bad for the Democratswhen the Clintonistas win elections?
Monday, March 18, 2002— The Senate(r) Of the Universe: Even with Mrs. Gore out of the fight, the Senate is where the action is. Friday, March 15, 2002— Forget Tipper: Focus More On: Is the Balance in the Separation of Powers Tipping.
Thursday, March 14, 2002— In Command[er in Chief]: Facing down Fournier, Mike and Stretch, the President feels secure to shape the agenda through November. Wednesday, March 13, 2002— Hook 'Em Horns: How many times will Bush campaign in Texas? Tuesday, March 12, 2002— Texas Is Bush Country: But Is It Still Republican Country? Monday, March 11, 2002— The Anniversary: American commemorates September 11, and the Democrats worry that what went up—will stay up. Friday, March 8, 2002— Money Walks The Walk: The Senate takes up jobless benefits bill just as...the number of jobless goes down. Thursday, March 7, 2002— Regulator With Results: George W. Bush Does Well By Doing Good—Maybe. Wednesday, March 6, 2002— Simon Says So: Was last night the best of Bill Simon's political life? Or was it the start of something bigger? Tuesday, March 5, 2002— It's A Sunshine Day: While steel workers wait and pace, Californians zoomup the freeway to vote.