The Dodd Proposal
Senator Chris Dodd, through whom any bailout proposal from the Treasury must go, has offered an alternative to the Paulson plan: The legislation requires Treasury to take an equity stake equal to the purchase price of the assets being bought. If the company isn't publicly traded, the government would take senior debt instead, placing it in the front of the line ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on September 22, 2008 14:24
VP Talk Heating Up
Team Obama is reportedly seriously vetting Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd and Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius as vice presidential candidates. It's hard to imagine that he'd go with Dodd, who I find likeable and serious, given that he's running on a "youth" and "change" message and Dodd is old and has been in Washington since roughly the Civil War. Sebelius is ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on July 11, 2008 08:26
Press Not Doing Its Job?
Elizabeth Edwards, who despite no public policy credentials other than having been married to a one-term senator and yet oddly seems to get op-ed space in the major papers whenever she requests it, has a rather strange editorial in today's NYT whining about how the mainstream media is failing in its duty to inform the public. The first several paragraphs make ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 27, 2008 08:27
Bainbridge Revises and Extends
Steve Bainbridge has a lengthy post responding to some questions that Steven Taylor and I have put to him vis-a-vis why he's so vehemently against John McCain after having supported his ideological twin, Fred Thompson. He makes some good points about actions McCain has taken that have irritated him but also acknowledges that personality is a part of the ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 24, 2008 17:43
Bill Richardson Drops Out of Presidential Race
As widely anticipated, Bill Richardson is ending his quest for the presidency. Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico is pulling out of the presidential race, after coming in fourth in both the New Hampshire primary and the Iowa caucuses. Mr. Richardson made the decision after returning to New Mexico yesterday and meeting with his top advisers. He is expected to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 10, 2008 08:05
ABC Cuts Also-Rans from Debates
ABC has drawn a line and three did not make the cut. ABC News is eliminating Republican presidential candidate Duncan Hunter and Democrats Dennis Kucinich and Mike Gravel from its prime-time presidential debates Saturday night because they did not meet benchmarks for their support. The Democratic debate three days before the New Hampshire primary will include Iowa caucus winner Barack Obama, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 4, 2008 11:00
Iowa Caucus Results - Signs and Portents
Mike Huckabee won the Republican vote by a much wider margin than expected and Ron Paul came in a distant fifth place -- but ahead of ostensible national frontrunner Rudy Giuliani. Barack Obama won on the Democratic side but one could argue that it was essentially a three way tie, since he got only one more delegate than ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 4, 2008 08:48
Biden, Dodd Drop Out after Iowa
While there will be plenty of speculation today about what last night's result in Iowa portend for the race, the parties, and the fate of the Republic, one thing is for certain: We won't have Joe Biden and Chris Dodd to kick around anymore. Delaware Sen Joe Biden and Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd abandoned their bids for the Democratic presidential ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 4, 2008 07:52
Ron Paul Excluded from Fox Debate
I know several of our readers are tired of posts on Ron Paul but Fox News' announcement that it would exclude candidates not polling in the double digits from their pre-New Hampshire primary debates has set off a firestorm, getting a sharp negative reaction from not only the blogosphere but the New Hampshire GOP. ABC and Fox News Channel are ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on January 1, 2008 10:46
Clinton Team: Obama Will Be Attacked on Drug Use
Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire co-chair says that Barack Obama's past drug use will hurt him if he should win the nomination. Billy Shaheen, the co-chairman of Hillary Clinton's campaign in New Hampshire, raised the issue of Sen. Barack Obama's past admissions of drug use in discussing the relative electability of the Democrats seeking the presidential nomination today. In an interview, Shaheen ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on December 13, 2007 09:59
