Alan Keyes is the Republican candidate for Senate in Illinois; Tom Coburn is the Republican candidate for Senate in Oklahoma. They’re both far-right conservatives running for the same office at the same time. The difference in the way the two are being treated, however, is dramatic. Keyes is a “roll your eyes” candidate — ignored […]
The Kerry campaign was right to jump all over this; I only wish someone in the media would pick up on it. On Monday, while boasting of his military “successes,” Bush told an audience in Ohio that our original foe is gone for good. “And as a result of the United States military, Taliban no […]
Bob Novak had something of a scoop this week about a huge behind-the-scenes conflict. A few hours after George W. Bush dismissed a pessimistic CIA report on Iraq as ”just guessing,” the analyst who identified himself as its author told a private dinner last week of secret, unheeded warnings years ago about going to war […]
Why would House Republicans schedule a vote on a culture war issue, which is pretty obviously unconstitutional and which has no chance at passing the Senate? Because they needed campaign fodder. Republican strategists are targeting vulnerable House Democrats who voted against legislation that would strip courts of their jurisdiction to review cases involving the Pledge […]
There have been countless articles over the last couple of weeks that detail how government officials at every level and in every agency see Iraq slipping further and further away, but today’s item in the Washington Post was particularly worthwhile. A growing number of career professionals within national security agencies believe that the situation in […]
In recent weeks, several media accounts have begun to focus on the Bush campaign’s unprecedented rhetoric, which effectively argues that John Kerry is helping terrorists by criticizing the president. In the never-ending drive to strive for an unnecessary balance, the Washington Post — on the front page, no less — accuses Kerry today of following […]
Go figure, watching Comedy Central’s fake news show helps you to be better informed about current events and politics. … “Daily Show” viewers know more about election issues than people who regularly read newspapers or watch television news, according to the National Annenberg Election Survey. Dannagal Goldthwaite Young, a senior research analyst at the Annenberg […]
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer appears to have the scoop-of-the-day. If it’s accurate, it may be a big one for the campaign. Dick Cheney appeared at a meeting of a conservative group called the Discovery Institute on Aug. 14, 1992. He was, at the time, still the Secretary of Defense, and was eventually questioned about the first […]
Zell Miller was rewarded for his ugly Republican convention speech with a hero’s welcome and lavish praise from the far right. Back in DC, meanwhile, Zell was rewarded in a more traditional way. The Republicans are making sure that Sen. Zell Miller, who launched a withering attack on presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry last month, […]
While pretending conditions in Iraq are improving, the Bush administration has emphasized the goal of democratic elections in Iraq in January. Giving Iraqis a direct say in choosing their own leaders, the argument goes, will help bring a semblance of stability to a country that is falling apart at the seams. But “democratic elections,” it […]