Good Monday
morning from Washington, where Congress is back in session but is still
stalemated over the Department of Homeland Security financing bill,
Republicans with presidential aspirations are polishing up their
speeches for the Conservative Political Action Conference, and
Kentucky’s governor is optimistic that Hillary Rodham Clinton
can win the state next year. Have the post-Oscar parties ended in
Hollywood yet? At the ceremony itself, political statements were the
order of the evening.
One speech ended in an
impassioned call for women’s rights, another lamented the future of
voting rights, and the final words of the night were about immigration.
Oh, and Edward J. Snowden took home an Oscar. (In spirit, anyway.)
The Academy Awards ceremony took a political left turn on Sunday night.
