On Meet the Press yesterday, Mary Matalin, Republican strategist and all-around Bush fan, just finished listening to James Carville, her husband, explain that Bush’s foreign policy “has not enhanced American prestige and American standing around the world.” Her response was simple and direct. “[I]t would be nice if everybody liked us, but it’s more important […]
John Kerry and Wesley Clark got some very strong words of encouragement over the weekend from two fairly unlikely sources. First up was Clark getting support from the most important Democrat in the land: Bill Clinton. Clinton, who has said very little about specific Democratic presidential candidates, rarely even mentioning one by name for fear […]
As a way of keeping you up-to-date, I wanted to mention that the Senate Judiciary Committee has not yet voted on the Bill Pryor nomination to the federal appeals bench. It was scheduled for last week, as I said last Monday, but it was delayed. (The delays had more to do with a busy schedule […]
The Supreme Court’s ruling striking down a law criminalizing gay sex seems like a no-brainer to most of us. Texas, among 12 other states, had made it a crime for gay couples to have sex. The high court struck down the law, concluding that it violated citizens’ right to privacy. For most of us, why […]
I noticed that blogger Daily Kos has alerted his readers to this gem from the current issue of Time: “Meeting last month at a sweltering U.S. base outside Doha, Qatar, with his top Iraq commanders, President Bush skipped quickly past the niceties and went straight to his chief political obsession: Where are the weapons of […]
The first three months of 2003 were a mixed bag when it came to fundraising for the nine Dems seeking the party’s presidential nomination. Edwards shocked the field with a first place finish (with $7.4 mil), followed closely by Kerry (with $7 mil). Dean, meanwhile, wasn’t expected to raise much more than $1 mil, so […]
It’s a shame when I end the week’s posts on a negative note, but today’s must-read article happens to be pretty depressing. While nine Democratic presidential candidates battle one another for every available fundraising penny, Bush is cruising the country building an unprecedented war chest. With the second quarter FEC reports due Monday, speculation is […]
Every American has three representatives in Congress — a member of the House of Representatives and two senators. Everyone, that is, except the 600,000 people who live in the nation’s capital. A lot of people don’t realize that the citizens of the District of Columbia are the only people to live in this country and […]
Well, the results are in and they aren’t terribly surprising. Move On.org has published the results of its online primary, which has garnered remarkable media attention, and candidates finished more or less the way everyone expected. A total of 317,647 people voted, which, as Move On organizers noted, is larger than the combined vote totals […]
I noticed that a blog called Zeitblog has linked to an interesting article in Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper, with one fascinating quote. The article is primarily about Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas and his efforts to deal with Hamas, but that’s not the interesting part (well, it is interesting, but it isn’t the part I […]