Remember all the fun we had earlier this year when the Bush administration really wanted us to believe Iraq was a nuclear threat? Remember the talk from Ari Fleischer and Condi Rice about “mushroom clouds”? When Bush described Hussein’s nuclear ambitions as “a grave and gathering danger”? Or how about when Dick Cheney claimed that […]
Considering my large readership base in Illinois (you know who you are), I’d be remiss if I failed to mention a recent statewide poll from the Land of Lincoln. Democrats in Illinois were asked who they support to take on Bush in next year’s election. A new Chicago Tribune/WGN poll shows Dick Gephardt, who hails […]
I don’t write about the daily battles in Iraq; they’re hard to keep up with. Nevertheless, the attacks are increasing. Our troops were experiencing as many as 25 attacks a day a couple of months ago, now it’s 35 a day. Sunday, rockets were launched at a Baghdad hotel at which Deputy Defense Secretary Paul […]
It’s sometimes difficult to recruit top-notch political talent to run against an incumbent Senator. Considering the extremely high rate at which incumbents are generally re-elected, most potential candidates prefer to wait until there’s an open seat. In Georgia, however, incumbent pseudo-Dem Sen. Zell Miller is retiring, making the state one of five that will host […]
So there was our friend Joe Lieberman last night in a Dem debate in Detroit, managing to go most of the evening without getting booed by the audience. Responding to complaints that he can’t appeal to Dem primary voters, Lieberman contrasted himself to Wesley Clark by saying, “I’ve been a lifelong Democrat. I’m a proud […]
A week from tomorrow, two statewide elections will determine the governors of Kentucky and Mississippi. Unfortunately, polls released over the weekend show likely GOP victories. In Kentucky, an Ipsos-Public Affairs poll shows Rep. Ernie Fletcher (R) with a nine-point lead over state Attorney General Ben Chandler (D), 52 percent to 43 percent. This is a […]
I almost skipped watching last night’s debate of Democratic presidential candidates, but I tuned in anyway, assuming that the one debate I failed to watch would be the one with the most excitement. Alas, I was mistaken. Nevertheless, I think Kerry had the best performance of the nine candidates. He showed flashes of humor and […]
Poor Republicans. When it comes to race relations, the party hasn’t had much luck lately. First former-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said America would have been better off with a segregationist president in 1948, then Rep. Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo.) compared African Americans to drug addicts on the House floor in April, then Rep. Cass Ballenger […]
One of my favorite Simpsons episodes of the last couple of years was when Krusty gets elected to Congress on a platform of diverting air traffic away from the Simpsons’ home. The classic moment of the episode was an extended parody of Fox News Channel’s obvious right-wing tilt. (click here for a screenshot in case […]
Via Daily Kos, I’ve noticed there a couple more states with Dem presidential polls released this week. A Marist College poll released yesterday shows that Howard Dean and Wesley Clark are excelling in New York, while Joe Lieberman, who was comfortably in first place in a similar poll last month, is fading fast. (margin of […]