Archive: July 27, 2008 - August 2, 2008
Uncle Ted's Problems
It was a tender moment between the Senate's two oldest members: one infirm, the other indicted. Eighty-four-year-old Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska, newly charged by the feds with corruption-related offenses, walked over to the desk of 90-year-old Democrat Robert Byrd of West Virginia yesterday morning. Byrd, in a wheelchair, clasped...
By Dana Milbank | July 31, 2008; 12:00 AM ET | Comments (5)
President Obama's Victory Tour
Barack Obama has long been his party's presumptive nominee. Now he's becoming its presumptuous nominee. Fresh from his presidential-style world tour, during which foreign leaders and American generals lined up to show him affection, Obama settled down to some presidential-style business in Washington yesterday. He ordered up a teleconference with...
By Dana Milbank | July 30, 2008; 12:00 AM ET | Comments (0)
