by Gordon Hensley | Jan 27, 2006 | Uncategorized
Washington, DC — The inevitability of Roy Blunt becoming House Majority Leader is still in doubt, despite the Blunt camp’s insistence it’s in the bag. First of all, nothing is ever in the bag until the votes are counted. As David Rogers of the WSJ...
by Gordon Hensley | Jan 25, 2006 | Uncategorized
Washington, DC — Former New York Senator Al D’Amato, a great American, floated on NY1 last night the possible candidacy of Staten Island D.A. Dan Donovan for NY Attorney General. Having worked with Guy Molinari’s regime during the 1997 special...
by Gordon Hensley | Jan 23, 2006 | Uncategorized
Washington, DC — Despite the fact consultants in general are overrated when it comes to assessing why a candidate wins or loses, Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s loss of GOP consultant Mike Murphy is a major blow to Romney’s presidential...
by Gordon Hensley | Jan 20, 2006 | Uncategorized
Washington, DC — The only person I’ve seen who has accurately identified Sen. Hillary Clinton’s “plantation” broadside against the House GOP as a smart political move is the NY Post’s John Podhoretz, who cannily noted in...
by Gordon Hensley | Jan 17, 2006 | Uncategorized
Rectortown, VA — What a classic gaffe from New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin: His city is, and must remain, “chocolate.” CNN, FOX and the cable news folks are all over this one, to no one’s surprise. This was an unfortunate choice of words,...
by Gordon Hensley | Jan 11, 2006 | Uncategorized
Washington, DC — Anyone who spends their day in the office in front of a keyboard while simultaneously watching a variety of cable news programming is able to sort out in relatively short order the spin stars. Paul Begala has emerged as not just one his...