As you may know, Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.), infuriated by Bush’s recess appointment of Bill Pryor to the 11th Circuit, told The Hill two weeks ago that he’s considering a legal challenge to the practice. (For more background, check my previous post on the subject.) Apparently, this wasn’t just an academic exercise. The AP is […]
We’ve already seen first hand how unreliable national polls are eight months before people actually vote. Watching the Dem nomination fight, at least four different candidates held leads between May 2002 and January 2003, and none of the data ended up mattering in the end. These polls are nevertheless interesting, not for predictive value, but […]
I think it’s safe to say the LA Times’ Richard Serrano and David Savage will not be on Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s Christmas card list. Serrano and Savage were the ones who uncovered Scalia’s hunting trip with Dick Cheney just a few weeks before Scalia and the rest of the justices were slated to […]
There’s been plenty of controversy surrounding the new wave of Bush campaign ads, most of which has centered around the appropriateness of using the terrorist attacks of 9/11 in political advertising. An interesting side fight has been ongoing over one of the ads, titled “Tested,” which features two people who appear to be firefighters. The […]
Let’s step back a minute and take stock of our society now that some gay couples have been given the right to get married. It’s been almost four months since the Massachusetts high court cleared the way for gay marriages in the Bay State. Since then, we’ve seen cities in New Mexico, California, New York, […]
For months, Florida was losing its edge as an electoral prize. Despite the state’s ambiguous results from 2000, the Sunshine State was no longer in vogue. Indeed, Ohio has surged as the state everyone should be excited about. Bush narrowly defeated Gore in Ohio in 2000 (3.5% margin of victory), and with 20 electoral votes, […]
The official Senate investigation into the Republicans stealing Dem memos appears to have wrapped up. Everything we were hearing before was true: the GOP staffers on the Judiciary Committee were stealing thousands of documents for 18 months. As the Washington Post reported: A three-month investigation by the Senate’s top law enforcement officer found a systematic […]
Newsday, which has done a solid job investigating the Plame Game scandal from the beginning, reported today that investigators subpoenaed a variety of White House documents in January as part of their ongoing probe. The federal grand jury probing the leak of a covert CIA officer’s identity has subpoenaed records of Air Force One telephone […]
On Tuesday, explosions killed dozens of people in Iraq as Shiite Muslims gathered for the feast of Ashura, a holiday that Saddam Hussein wouldn’t let Iraqis celebrate. Dick Cheney, in a CNN interview a few hours after the news of the attacks reached the airwaves, seemed pretty sure who was responsible. Cheney: Well, today we […]
Just a month ago, when Bush was on Meet the Press, the issue of job creation was raised. Bush was optimistic. Bush: I’m not suggesting the chart only shows the bad numbers, but how about the fact that we are now increasing jobs or the fact that unemployment is now down to 5.6 percent? There […]