Read moreI think it’s dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they’ve been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.
Read moreI’ll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can’t go back in life. I won’t go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
Read moreI hate to sound sort of diffident about it but it strikes me that a lot of people on the right have got active lives and are doing other things.
Read moreConservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.
Read moreI would have strong opinions and be prepared to argue my case, but if you talk to my colleagues, I think you’d find they consider me the jokester, the informal mayor of the West Wing.
Read moreAlinsky’s 1971 book, ‘Rules for Radicals,’ is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to ‘Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.’ That’s what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.