Jindal Gestures for President

Bobby Jindal is interested in running for president in 2012. We know this not because he has said much about the matter – on Sunday’s “Meet the Press,” he provided all of the customary non-answers – but because of his words and actions on another subject.

Jindal, who will deliver the Republican response to Barack Read More

Stimulus Politics Is Fleeting, the 2008 Realignment Isn’t

On Sunday’s Meet the Press, David Gregory confronted David Axelrod, one of President Obama’s chief advisers, with a respected economist’s grim conclusion that the stimulus package Obama will sign on Tuesday simply isn’t big enough and that the unemployment rate will hover around 10 percent at the end of 2010.

"You heard people saying it Read More

Emanuel Stands Accused of What, Exactly?

Not surprisingly, David Gregory devoted some of his interview with Rahm Emanuel on Sunday’s Meet the Press to grilling the incoming White House chief of staff about his role in the Senate appointment fiasco in Illinois.

Emanuel apparently had several phone calls with Rod Blagojevich and his chief of staff before the Illinois governor was Read More

David Gregory’s Secret Agent Men

When agent Richard Leibner’s phone was ringing off the hook one night last week, everyone was asking him the same thing: Was his longtime client David Gregory the next host of Meet the Press, or wasn’t he?

He called back, telling reporters he could neither confirm nor deny the report that Read More