"If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." That's how Harry Truman downplayed the importance of friendships in politics. But at a certain point, can bad personal relations impede a president's ability to get things done?
Do your Allen Iverson imitation, but instead of "practice", say "alleged" with your most disbelieving voice. . . On today's Good Morning America, the normally politically-correct Dan Harris took surprising issue with Ron Claiborne's insistence on calling a caught-on-tape convenience store shooter an "alleged" robber. The show rolled the security video several times, showing the "alleged" robber…
Ted Cruz: undocumented Canadian candidate? Andrew Cuomo didn't quite say that, but the New York governor surely took a birther shot at Cruz during his appearance on today's Morning Joe.Invited on to comment on Cruz's claim that Donald Trump represents "New York values," New York Governor Cuomo said: "You think the sign says only people from Canada that happen to come from Spanish-Irish descent?…
Yesterday, we noted With All Due Respect's report on Chelsea Clinton's absurd attack on Bernie Sanders, in which she claimed he would strip "millions and millions and millions of health insurance." John Heilemann rightly called Chelsea's line a "lie."Today, Heilemann reported that he and co-host Mark Halperin have received "a lot of blowback," i.e. criticism, from fellow MSM members for their…