Ahem.
I’m very happy to announce that I have been offered and accepted a position on Senator Chris Dodd’s presidential campaign. I moved to Washington DC on Sunday and today is my first full day in Dodd HQ. From this point forward I will only be publishing my writing in an official capacity for the […]

I am currently on an extended hiatus from blogging at Emboldened.
I began blogging in 2004 in the aftermath of the election. At the time, the Baltimore Group was designed to promote discussions between friends but it quickly transformed itself into the driving force behind my personal political evolution, even serving as the vehicle for […]

I’m starting to think that Rudy Giuliani is not going to take the path most observers thought he would take with regards to abortion. Giuliani’s socially moderate positions, particularly his wishy-washy support for abortion rights as long as the courts say so, are generally perceived as a vulnerability that will make him less appealing to […]

This is news to me:
ANOTHER Kennedy is about to run for public office. At his Newport fund-raiser the other night, Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.) told a Page Six spy his brother, Ted Kennedy Jr., who lives in New Haven, is eyeing a Connecticut congressional seat. “Patrick says support for his brother is building, and Ted […]

Joe Hallett of The Columbus Dispatch reports that Ohio Senator George Voinovich recently approached former Secretary of State Colin Powell and tried to get him to run for the GOP’s nomination.

Sen. George V. Voinovich visited former Secretary of State Colin
Powell about a month ago and urged him to seek the Republican
nomination for president in 2008. […]

The New Haven Register editorial board doesn’t go as far as the Danbury News-Times call for Gov. Rell to fire her embattled chief of staff Lisa Moody, but nonetheless rips Rell and calls for the legislature to close the loop hole that currently allows the governor’s CoS to fund raise for Rell politically while working […]

Chris Richter, national coordinator of the John Cox campaign (whatever that means), wants me to do something. From my inbox:
On Tuesday, May 15th, there will be the second Republican Presidential Debate and Republican Presidential Candidate John Cox has not been invited. We are asking our supporters to call both Fox News and the South […]

Yesterday I posted on an editorial from a local Iowa paper that gave Sen. Chris Dodd a very positive review. The post started a small discussion about the viability of Dodd and who the top tier candidates are. I was going to include this as a comment on it, but it grew long. I […]

Just in my email box from Rep. John Larson (CT-01):
“I am pleased that my colleagues in the Senate have raised the issue of revoking President Bush’s authority to wage war. The President callously and carelessly entered this war. Clearly, things have gotten worse and not better. We cannot afford to have a President […]

Rep. Tom Lantos (Democrat, CA-12) during a House Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on China:
Last week, the Chinese detained four Americans protesting for freedom for the Tibetan people - a salient issue as next year’s Beijing Olympics approach. China has charted a route for the Olympic torch that brings it to the top of Mount […]