Politics

Do you give money to the Sierra Club? If you do, you’re putting Democrats in office! The Sierra Club is planning on putting between five and ten million dollars into competitive state races this year.

What makes a liberal a liberal? Mark Goldblatt weighs in and he’s right on the money. [I know, I was one!]

Think Hillary can win? John Hawkins doesn’t, and lists The Top 8 Reasons Why Hillary Clinton Is a Weaker Candidate Than People Think.

Meanwhile, Condoleezza Rice is more popular than you’d think:

When Esquire asked American men who they would invite from a list of 14 notable women to a dinner party, they chose Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice – over such stars as Julia Roberts, Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson.

Dinner with Condi? Sign me up!

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The rumor mill is spinning out of control as Plamegate drags on. And in good ol’ American journalistic tradition, US News is reporting rumors:

Sparked by today’s Washington Post story that suggests Vice President Cheney’s office is involved in the Plame-CIA spy link investigation, government officials and advisers passed around rumors that the vice president might step aside and that President Bush would elevate Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

“It’s certainly an interesting but I still think highly doubtful scenario,” said a Bush insider. “And if that should happen,” added the official, “there will undoubtedly be those who believe the whole thing was orchestrated – another brilliant Machiavellian move by the VP.”

Everyone from NewsMax to Salon.com is picking up on it so I expect it to be all over MSM by tommorrow morning.

This is a damn fine idea, as demonstrated by Wizbang’s 3 Things that don’t scare Condoleezza Rice.

The Christian Science Monitor has several quotes from foreign dignitaries about how Condi is shaping world opinion:

“She has taken control of the State Department, and she is still in charge [of foreign policy] back at the White House. For her there is no border, no door between the State Department and the [National Security Council],” says a high-ranking European diplomat in Washington. “She is probably the most powerful secretary of State in decades.”

From Condoleezza Rice:

I’m a package, I’m black and female and me. I think I act as Condi Rice, and that’s a person who is female and black and grew up in Alabama and lived in California and was a professor.

Even the LA Times can see that Rice is Reshaping Foreign Policy:

Condoleezza Rice began her term as secretary of State with a tour of Europe and the Middle East last month that showed off her skills as a fence mender. The weeks that followed have revealed another side of her style.

After clashing with the Egyptians, Rice canceled a visit to Cairo. Amid tensions with the Canadians days later, she abruptly postponed a trip to Ottawa. She recalled the U.S. ambassador to Syria within 24 hours of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, as accusations of Syrian involvement swirled.

And Rice has spoken publicly in blunt terms rarely heard from her predecessor, Colin L. Powell. “States that don’t recognize that the Middle East is changing, and, indeed, try to halt that change … need to be isolated and condemned,” she said in a recent PBS interview.

The tough new tone is just one of the changes that have been occurring in Foggy Bottom, the Washington neighborhood that is home to the department, since President Bush’s former national security advisor was sworn in Jan. 26.

Among other changes, Rice has begun assembling an inner circle that will assert close control over key diplomatic issues. She also is seeking to speed decision making and action. Above all, she is trying to reshape an administration’s foreign policy that has had many voices so that it has just one — that of Bush, her boss and confidant.

An interesting set of comparisons between Hillary and Rice is over at the Washingtonian Online. I shamelessly stole it and added a couple of items: