2002 Note Archives
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 15, 2002 — We Shall Call You Yet Again: Mini-est Me: The Note As Secret Santa
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 — Archive not available
Monday, November 4, 2002 — Numbers Stew: A Whirlwind of Polls Points In No Direction
Friday, November 1, 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 Maitenance No 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 — Archive not available
Wednesday, October 16, 2002 — Guaranteed Minimum Clarity: And Maximum Confusion.
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: 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 — Archive not available.
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 — Archive not available.
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 Heel:George 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 — Archive not available.
Monday, July 7, 2002 — Archive not available.
Monday, July 2, 2002 — Archive not available.
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: Did 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.
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 Show: Or, the (Bill) Clinton Show, or, the (George W.) Bush Show: The One Where Defiance Is Shown
Wednesday, May 1, 2002 — Midtern Exam: The President faces a test.
Tuesday, April 30, 2002 — (Com)passion is No Ordinary Word: By 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.
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 Sept. 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.