I got a tip from my friend Phil that Sean Hannity — yes, that Sean Hannity — criticized Bush for sitting and reading “My Pet Goat” for seven minutes after being told that the country is under attack. As hard as it was to believe Hannity would do such a thing, I checked the transcript. […]
Dick “Go F— Yourself” Cheney must really be getting desperate. The Republican attack on John F. Kerry over terrorism and Iraq escalated Thursday, led by Vice President Cheney, who mocked the Democratic nominee for saying he would wage a more sensitive war on terrorism and accused him of seeing the world as if the attacks […]
A Washington Post item yesterday about a new “group” attacking John Kerry on black radio stations was offensive on several levels. One of the radio ads addresses Kerry’s failure to vote on a bill to extend unemployment benefits for 13 weeks: “It needed 60 votes to pass. Ninety-nine out of 100 senators voted — Kerry […]
In an effort to defend Bush’s ridiculous (and recklessly dishonest) stem-cell research policy, BC04 arranged for two senators to defend the president’s policy. At a time when polls show overwhelming support for the research, Sens. Gordon Smith (Ore.) and Trent Lott (Miss.) expressed concern that Bush is not receiving his due for allowing some federally […]
When Bush told his supporters this week that “real rich people figure out how to dodge taxes,” he wasn’t kidding. But it’s not so much a “dodge,” as it is intentional White House tax policies that give millionaires a windfall. To give credit where credit is due, Al Gore did warn us. Four years ago, […]
The Wall Street Journal’s Jackie Calmes caught another fun one for the Bushism file. Bush, on Monday: “Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.” The ironic thing is, Bush, champion of the Patriot Act, may actually agree with such a […]
The Bush administration has never really been able to come up with a reasonable defense for its opposition to the reimportation of prescription medication. The truth — the administration is doing the bidding of wealthy pharmaceutical companies that donate generously to his campaign — probably wouldn’t go over well with the public, so they desperately […]
There have been plenty of rumors about Nancy Reagan not being fond of George W. Bush, driven in large part by Bush’s opposition to stem-cell research that may have benefited her late husband. Talk intensified when the former First Lady said she would not attend a tribute to Ronald Reagan at this year’s Republican convention. […]
If Florida wants to redeem itself and demonstrate that it isn’t an embarrassment to democracy, it’s off to a really bad start. About 22,000 Palm Beach County voters received absentee ballots this week with outdated instructions telling them their signatures must be witnessed or their votes won’t count. A Florida law that took effect July […]
Taking a break, for just a moment, from the race for the White House, let’s turn our attention to the race for control of an institution at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue: the Senate. Since Bush took office nearly four years ago, the chamber has been as closely divided as it’s ever been for […]