While I’m frequently frustrated with most of the national press for treating Bush with kid gloves, there are two high-profile journalists who don’t mind pointing to Bush’s often-outrageous lies. One is New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and the other is Washington Post White House reporter Dana Milbank. (In some ways, Milbank’s efforts are even […]
A new CNN poll on public attitudes about the war in Iraq has a few details that I found interesting. Most of the data is pretty straightforward and predictable. When asked how well things are going in Iraq, 56% said things are going well while 42% said poorly. While I’m not sure where those in […]
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 […]