Just to follow-up, Alabama voters went to the polls yesterday and overwhelmingly defeated a measure to bring their tax structure into the 21st century. With all precincts reporting, 68% opposed the plan and 32% supported it. Gov. Bob Riley (R) knew things weren’t going to work out and conceded defeat for his plan 90 minutes […]
Last night’s CBC debate in Baltimore wasn’t substantively different from last week’s in Albuquerque. Dems who voted for the Iraq war resolution continued to try and explain why they really didn’t mean anything by it, while Kerry and Gephardt still aren’t going after Dean the way the press expects them to. Other random thoughts: * […]
The statewide vote in Alabama on whether to pass Gov. Bob Riley’s (R) $1.2 billion tax plan is today. If any of you happen to be reading this from Alabama, polls close at 7 pm Central time. All recent polls show opposition to the Riley plan is significant and, in all likelihood, will fail. As […]
My beloved Texas Tangle appears to be all-but over. The artists formerly known as the Texas 11 — and for a short while last week, the Texas 10 — are heading home. The remaining Democratic state senators agreed last night to return to Texas for a court hearing on their challenge to the redistricting process. […]
In case last week’s debate in New Mexico left you wanting more, there’s another Democratic presidential candidate debate tonight in Baltimore. This event will be hosted by the Congressional Black Caucus’ Political Education and Leadership Institute and, for reasons that still elude me, will be broadcast live on Fox News Channel. There will be no […]
With Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.) announcing that he will not run for another term in the Senate, the race to replace him will be intense. The leading Democrat, at this point, appears to be former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, who has not yet formally announced his intentions. I hate to say it, but I really […]
Bush’s request for $87 billion for new war costs in Iraq and Afghanistan is generating plenty of buzz on Capitol Hill. The administration will probably get the money it’s asking for, but lawmakers are going to make the White House jump through some hoops first. Some critics are beginning to note, for example, just how […]
My favorite Supreme Court ruling in history is West Virginia v. Barnette, a 1943 case in which the high court said students cannot be compelled to pledge allegiance to anything against their will. In delivering the ruling, Justice Robert Jackson wrote, “Struggles to coerce uniformity of sentiment in support of some end thought essential to […]
One of the harshest criticisms I’ve seen of the Bush administration’s war in Iraq came last Thursday in a devastating critique that lamented the White House’s failure to plan for peace before the war and reliance on deception in the buildup towards war. The surprise, however, was the source. “My contemporaries, our feelings and sensitivities […]
I guess it’s poll day here at The Carpetbagger Report. I’ve already mentioned two; here’s another. The Washington Post ran discomforting poll results on the front page on Saturday, showing that nearly 70 percent of Americans continue to believe — without evidence — that Saddam Hussein participated in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. […]