George W. Bush, who has the worst record of any president in American history when it comes to deficit spending, really wants us to believe he has a plan to cut the deficit in half. He doesn’t. Bush held a press conference the other day, and while most of the discussion focused on Iraq and […]
One of things about Howard Dean’s presidential campaign that’s always bugged me is his tendency to go after Democrats. Despite claims of representing the “Democratic Party wing of the Democratic Party,” Dean has been almost as tough on his party this year as he’s been on the Republicans. It sometimes seems, in Dean’s eyes, Democrats […]
Just to update those of you who care, as I do, about the ongoing travails of theocrat Roy Moore, I’m pleased to report that his case can now move forward. Alabama has finally found people to sit, albeit temporarily, on the state Supreme Court to hear Moore’s appeal. This was not necessarily a certainty. Moore, […]
As if Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly hasn’t suffered enough embarrassment after having been caught lying about winning Peabody Awards and his alleged upbringing in near-poverty, Eugene at Demagogue noticed O’Reilly on the Today Show yesterday fibbing about the success of his latest book, Who’s Looking Out For You? How very sad. As recently as last […]
Howard Dean, at least since becoming a presidential candidate, has enjoyed an usual relationship with the national media. On the one hand, he doesn’t really like reporters or their questions, and has been known to get, shall we say, prickly when a journalist asks too forceful a question. On the other hand, reporters have, for […]
I know this shouldn’t be shocking and that we all should expect these kinds of stunts from the Bush White House. But here I am, astonished nevertheless. Dana Milbank has another in a long-line of disturbing stories in the Washington Post today, this time about the White House’s habit of “touching up” the administration online […]
For a while, it looked like Republicans in Florida couldn’t find any high-profile candidates to run for the U.S. Senate in the wake of Bob Graham’s retirement. Now, they may have too many. The latest, and easily the strangest, of the GOP candidates is former New Hampshire Sen. Bob Smith, who told reporters yesterday that […]
I have a strong feeling that we’ll be hearing a lot more about this story in the coming months. For the first time, the chairman of the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks is saying publicly that 9/11 could have and should have been prevented, reports CBS News Correspondent Randall Pinkston. “This is a […]
I noticed last week that Bush was taking a clear and definitive stand in support of the nation’s long-standing “One China” policy and the Chinese policy on Taiwan. I wasn’t particularly troubled by the announcement; it’s not much different from the Clinton administration’s policy. Bush was, however, stronger than usual in encouraging (warning?) Taiwan not […]
Ever have one of those days? Attorney General John Ashcroft is having one right now. The front page of the Washington Post features a fun story explaining that Ashcroft, while running unsuccessfully for re-election to the Senate in 2000, violated federal election laws by “accepting $110,000 in illegal contributions from a committee Ashcroft had established […]