Rhetoric before the war: “[O]n a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years…. We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon,” Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said on March […]
I realize this story is 48 hours old (an eternity in the blogosphere), but I’m weighing in anyway. The myth of the “liberal media” can never be debunked often enough. Last week, we learned that 60 Minutes bumped a segment on Bush using forged documents to make his case that Iraq was trying to develop […]
Yep, it’s that time again. It’s my weekly round-up of statewide presidential polls released over the last seven days, a little something I call “Poll Day.” This week breaks last week’s record for most states ever: 38. Also this week, we have the ninth installment of the Zogby Interactive/Wall Street Journal survey. As always, because […]
I was trying to think of the appropriate response to the Bush’s campaign’s painfully stupid “Windsurfing” ad and started to write one of my lengthy treatises on the subject. But, fortunately for me and my readers, someone emailed me a political cartoon that sums up the issue perfectly. Amazing how a one-frame cartoon can deliver […]
Bush’s Defense Secretary, yesterday: U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has raised the possibility that some areas of Iraq might be excluded from elections scheduled for January if security could not be guaranteed. “Let’s say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country. But in some […]
Just FYI, my friends at The Liquid List have had a lot of server troubles lately and access to the site as been spotty, at best. I’m mentioning this because TLL’s Oliver wrote me today to let me know that they’re back and better than ever. So, for those of you who were reading The […]
All week long, congressional Republicans have been bad-mouthing the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office and insisting that no one should pay any attention to reports the CBO releases this week. House Budget Committee Republicans are making a pre-emptive strike at a forthcoming Congressional Budget Office report that they fear will be used by the chamber’s Democrats […]
Those of us who already like him are well aware of this, but it’s nice to see it in print. Sen. John Kerry set his jaw, and even sighed at one point, as he confronted anew the confusion over his stand on the Iraq war, a fog that has enveloped his candidacy for months. “I […]
On Wednesday, Bush made it clear that you have to be prepared to stand up and take action if you’re going to lead a war on terrorism. “You cannot lead the war against terror if you wilt or waver when times get tough.” Sounds right to me. And yet, when things got tough the morning […]
No, not “liberal”; in this case, it’s “lie.” And in this campaign, it’s something John Kerry just won’t say. John Kerry says President Bush “failed to tell the truth” about Iraq and “misled the American people,” but that’s as far as he seems willing to take it. He stops just short of the “l-word” liar. […]