Dana Milbank's Washington Sketch looks at the political scene in the White House, Congress and throughout the nation's capital.
Dana Milbank's Washington Sketch looks at the political scene in the White House, Congress and throughout the nation's capital.
HOOKSETT, N.H., Jan. 8
ABOARD THE STRAIGHT
NASHUA, N.H., Jan. 6
DES MOINES, Jan. 3 -- And so, after a year of campaigning and tens of millions of candidates' dollars, it came down to this: 600 people packed into a gymnasium at Merrill Middle School ("Home of the Mustangs!") and a burly man on a stage, perspiring heavily.
CORALVILLE, Iowa, Jan. 2
DES MOINES, Jan. 1
LARGO, Fla., Dec. 26
DES MOINES, Iowa
DES MOINES It was very nearly a case of Too Much Information.
"Don't mention the war!" -- John Cleese in the "Fawlty Towers" episode "The Germans"
Dana Milbank is away. Washington Sketch will resume when he returns.
The Earth has circled the sun 16 times since Clarence Thomas took his seat at the Supreme Court. But for Justice Thomas, it's forever 1991.
"I am not my brother's keeper," Howard "Cookie" Krongard, the State Department's inspector general, testified to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday.
Fresh from his appearance Monday night at the Birchmere, Lyle Lovett had a gig at the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday -- and the stage proved uncomfortably crowded with performers.
When the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat and Revolutionary War hero, visited George Washington, he presented the father of our country with, among other things, two golden pheasants, two hounds and some mules.