Just a few months after Bush was inaugurated, the White House created an “energy task force” responsible for shaping the administration’s energy policies. To no one’s surprise, the task force, headed by Vice President Cheney, concluded that we need to drill for more oil, ease environmental regulations, and ignore calls for greater conservation. The interesting […]
The Bush administration’s false claim that Saddam Hussein’s government had purchased uranium for a nuclear weapons program from Niger is slowly becoming a full-fledged problem for the White House. The scandal, if you’re prepared to call it one, took a fresh turn over the weekend with the identification of a key player who was heretofore […]
David Brooks, a conservative writer for The Weekly Standard, wrote an article recently in which he seemed shocked that Democrats consider themselves more virtuous than Republicans. He noted that Dem strategists such as Bob Shrum have said, “It’s probably a weakness that we’re not real haters. We don’t have a sense that it’s a holy […]
Here’s a story from over the weekend that got a lot of folks riled up. It turns out that Karl Rove, Bush’s brain, participated in a July 4th parade in Washington and noticed a group of Howard Dean supporters carrying Dean campaign signs. According to a report in the Washington Post, Rove was overheard telling […]
Imagine being in the audience when you’re listening to a preacher at his pulpit, he asks for a sign from God, and he is suddenly struck by lightening. Sounds like a Monty Python sketch, right? Well, it actually happened last week in Forest, Ohio. A Baptist evangelist was giving a sermon on penance and he […]
To honor the 4th of July, a number of the sites I visit posted thought pieces on patriotism, what it means to be an American, and general reflections that seem appropriate at this time of year. There was one that stood out that I wanted to recommend. Gary Hart, the former Colorado Senator and two-time […]
The Carpetbagger Report will be off tomorrow, enjoying the 4th of July weekend. I’ll resume posts for your viewing pleasure on Monday. Enjoy the holiday.
Every time presidential campaigns see the end of the quarter coming, and they know that all the political reporters will be focusing on who raised what, the campaigns start playing the expectations game. It goes like this: campaign staffers tell key reporters — on background — that their guy is doing well with fundraising, but […]
Michael Tomasky has a terrific web-exclusive article online at The American Prospect’s website that I’d really recommend reading. It’s about why liberals should be angry, but why we’ll need more than anger to beat Bush and the GOP. Though Tomasky doesn’t specify his inspiration, I’m fairly certain it was a recent article by David Brooks […]
Unemployment increased to a nine-year high in June, with the unemployment rate reaching 6.4%, far worse than expected. In total, 30,000 private sector jobs were lost last month, on top of 70,000 job cuts in May. Two million people were unemployed for 27 weeks or more last month, an increase of 410,000 since the start […]