The Bush campaign’s drive to maintain loyal, hyper-partisan, always-adoring crowds for the president took yet another turn this week, as Republicans in Oregon decided to trade free tickets to a presidential event for some rank-and-file toil. Want a ticket to see President Bush campaign in Oregon on Friday? You’ll have to put in a few […]
Of all the things the Bush campaign does to annoy me — and that is one heck of a long list — the thing that really gets under my skin the most is when they falsely attack John Kerry of doing something that Bush actually has done. The latest in this series was yesterday, when […]
I can appreciate that there’s sometimes an ebb and flow to media coverage of a major news story, but when it comes to Iraq and the growing number of American casualties, this is not the time for the press to be distracted. Many Americans may not realize it, but last month was one of the […]
Bush, on Tuesday, in response to a question from a voter about a national sales tax: “He’s talking about getting rid of the current tax system and replacing it with a national sales tax,” Bush told his audience. “It’s an interesting idea. You know, I’m not exactly sure how big the national sales tax is […]
Ralph Nader really wanted California’s Green Party to consider him for its coveted ballot slot. The Greens wisely refused. The Green Party of California has rejected a request from Ralph Nader to hold a special nominating convention that would have given him another shot at appearing on the state’s ballot as a presidential candidate. Nader […]
It was quite a story in April: Prince Bandar enjoys easy access to the Oval Office. His family and the Bush family are close. And Woodward told 60 Minutes that Bandar has promised the president that Saudi Arabia will lower oil prices in the months before the election — to ensure the U.S. economy is […]
I was initially prepared to blow this off. The administration announced over the weekend that Secretary of State Colin Powell wouldn’t appear at this year’s Republican convention. Fine; he played a pretty big role at the last convention, but the party already has a full slate of GOP moderates on the bill and don’t need […]
The biggest congressional scandal that reporters are intent on ignoring took a turn yesterday, as Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), under investigation for leaking classified information to the press, hired outside counsel yesterday. (Believe it or not, Shelby’s lawyer is — eek! — a Democrat.) Gregory Craig, a partner at Williams & Connolly, will represent Shelby […]
In the unlikely event you haven’t already seen this elsewhere, I wanted to mention that Rep. Rodney “Turncoat” Alexander’s troubles continue to get considerably worse. First, as the DCCC reported, Alexander’s ballot status is being challenged in court. A voter in Louisiana is filing a legal challenge to defective Congressman Rodney Alexander’s ballot qualification, and […]
I don’t mean to belabor this point, but the source of the leak for Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan is important and there continues to be some uncertainty here. The key piece of information in identifying who (and by “who,” I mean which country) was responsible for the leak came directly from National Security Advisor Condoleezza […]