Bloomberg Praises Unions, Jeb Bush
Michael Bloomberg had kind words
Jeb Bush
The Early Line: Romney in Front, Palin Fading
It’s Triple Crown season, and time (or just an excuse, maybe) for an early handicapping of the 2012 Republican presidential field.
As with horse racing, where the fastest horse out of the gate often fades in the stretch (like Big Drama in last Saturday’s Preakness), early speed in a presidential race can Read More
Republicans Wonder How to Sell a Toxic Brand
Hoping to re-brand their declining party, a group of prominent Republicans recently launched a national “listening tour,” presumably as an exercise in market research. They would like to know why voters—and especially younger voters—increasingly reject the G.O.P. They want to “ask the American people what their hopes and dreams are” while engaging in a “wide-open Read More
At Florida McCain Rally, Cheerleaders and Nativism
MIAMI—John McCain is about to appear at a rally in a packed gym here at Florida International University, where a giant American flag is hanging over the stage like a canopy between two big blue banners, one reading “Florida” the other “Victory.” Pro-McCain signs are written in Spanish and English, and a large Cuban contingent Read More
Jeb Bush Endorses McCain
The McCain campaign just announced that Jeb Bush, older brother of George W. and former Governor of Florida, is endorsing John McCain.
Although his family is hardly at its most popular, the elder Bush brother's endorsement makes a statement about the Republican establishment rallying around McCain. George W. has been encouraging Republicans to support Read More
Jeb Bush, Michael Bloomberg Speak at Snooty, Exclusive Club
At an education-themed event today hosted by the Manhattan Institute featuring Jeb Bush and Michael Bloomberg, something happened.
There's probably more to say. But despite the fact that the event was on the mayor's public schedule, and that the Manhattan Institute called around to invite reporters to watch, the press wasn't actually welcome.
After the Read More
Giuliani Hires Jeb Bush Campaign Manager
Even as he continues to chase after President George W. Bush fund-raisers, Rudy Giuliani has just signed up Governor Jeb Bush's former Florida campaign manager. Karen Unger will be the campaign's senior advisor for Florida, organizing field operations and grassroots recruiting. Text of the release is after the jump. --Jason Horowitz Former Jeb Bush Campaign Read More
Events for Wednesday, January 10, 2006
At 8:30 a.m., the new United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, will speak at an Association for a Better New York Breakfast at the Grand Hyatt . At 8:45 a.m., Mike Bloomberg will meet with Jeb Bush and School officials on Chamber Street. At 10 a.m., the Assembly's Environmental Committee holds a hearing in Read More
Elsewhere: The Jog on Day 1
Hillary lays claim to some anti-terrorism pork. John McCain may have a campaign manager and press person in place for his presidential run. Mitt Romney has hired some Jeb Bush allies. RunObama.com is looking for signatures. Eliot Spitzer said (jokingly, I hope) that his inauguration speech may be 45 minutes Read More
The Rudy Team Has ’04 Dream: Bush-Giuliani
Bruce Teitelbaum, Rudy Giuliani’s most trusted political adviser, sidled up to a veteran New York operative recently and made a bold pronouncement. “Bruce said, very openly, that if Rudy Giuliani wants it, he’ll be the Republican Party’s Vice Presidential nominee in 2004,” the operative told The Observer. “And he said that he thinks Giuliani is Read More
The Rudy Team Has ’04 Dream: Bush-Giuliani
Bruce Teitelbaum, Rudy Giuliani’s most trusted political adviser, sidled up to a veteran New York operative recently and made a bold pronouncement.
“Bruce said, very openly, that if Rudy Giuliani wants it, he’ll be the Republican Party’s Vice Presidential nominee in 2004,” the operative told The Observer. “And he said that he thinks Giuliani is Read MoreOdds On Hillary
The online bookmaker Sportsbook.com has taken a look at 2008, and here are the odds: Hillary Clinton: 6-1 Rudy Giuliani: 10-1 Condoleeza Rice: 15-1 odds John Edwards: 15-1 Barack Obama: 30-1 Jeb Bush: 35-1 (via MSNBC.com)
Nader Returns, With G.O.P. Help
You don't have to be a Marxist to remember what may be the most widely quoted (and misquoted) passage from the works of Karl Marx: "Hegel says somewhere that all great events and personalities in world history reappear in one way or another. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as Read More
Among Moorean Cheap Shots, Many Legitimate Revelations in 9/11
Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 should be carefully studied by John Kerry's political advisers-not for its good taste, profundity or even originality, but for its sheer bulldog tenacity in laying waste to the patriotic mythology spun out of lies and half-truths in Karl Rove's White House.
As it happens, I attended the local anti-Bush revival meeting masquerading Read MoreMcCain Inspires Rocky Revival By Moderates
Moderate Republicans-remember them? With their quaint fiscally conservative, socially liberal outlook and their patrician accents? You've been reading their political obituary every six months for at least the last quarter-century.
But in recent weeks, you can't turn on the television without seeing their 21st-century equivalents, John McCain and Rudolph Giuliani. And then there's Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Read More