Here’s another gem of a quote from the Bush gang. Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said Kerry’s goal of pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq in his first term sends “a clear signal of defeat and retreat to America’s enemies that will make the world a far more dangerous place.” “Defeat and retreat” is the […]
If you haven’t already seen it, be sure to check out Joe Klein’s column in this week’s Time. Klein made the comparison that needed to be made — Scott McClellan to Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf. Remember al-Sahhaf? He was the unintentionally hilarious Iraqi Information Minister who would tell international journalists how well things were going for […]
I think I’ve determined why the Bush administration’s domestic policies keep failing — they’re bad at math. At a minimum, that would shed some light on how Bush’s Medicare scheme continues to get worse all the time. President Bush promised Congress that his Medicare prescription drug benefit would cost no more than $400 billion over […]
The most over-the-top effort to scare voters I’ve ever heard came at the Christian Coalition’s national conference in 2000. Dede Robertson, Pat’s wife, wanted her sympathetic audience to believe that an Al Gore presidency would literally destroy civilization. In the space of just 10 minutes Robertson’s wife, who has just recently been named chair of […]
Bush may be running around the country telling voters how great conditions are in Iraq, but members of Congress, to their credit, aren’t buying it. Even the Republicans. Let’s see, first there was Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). “No, I don’t think we’re winning,” Senator Hagel of Nebraska said on the CBS News program “Face the […]
The story started innocently enough. In February, Tim Russert asked the president if he would release his full military record to settle the controversy over whether he fulfilled his obligations to the National Guard. Bush said, “Yes, absolutely. We did so in 2000, by the way.” The second sentence was a transparent falsehood, and as […]
It’s as if all the Bush campaign complaints and delays over the debate schedule were a smoke screen all along. Oh wait; they were. Just hours before the written-in-stone deadline, it now appears that Bush has agreed to the three debate locations, formats, and dates that have been on the table all along. The campaigns […]
It’s time for everybody’s favorite Friday feature — Poll Day, my round-up of statewide presidential polls released over the last seven days. (If you’re new, welcome; we do this every Friday.) This week’s Poll Day is the biggest ever, with a whopping 36 states offering data. Some of the numbers are encouraging, others not so […]
This is rich. Seeking to gain ground against Sen. John Kerry, President Bush said Thursday that his Democratic opponent “wants to expand government” in education, health care, taxes and virtually every other area of domestic policy. “We have a difference of philosophy in this campaign,” Bush told supporters. “It’s a clear difference: my opponent’s programs […]
I’m not sure why, but this court ruling didn’t seem to get as much attention as it should have this week. Suggesting the government was acting as if it had something to hide, a federal judge Wednesday gave Washington one month to release records related to the treatment of prisoners in Iraq. U.S. District Judge […]