It may be wishful thinking, but I can’t help but notice the number of relatively high-profile Republicans abandoning Bush the past couple of weeks. Whether it’s part of a larger trend or just isolated coincidences remains to be seen, but it’s encouraging either way. Two weeks ago is was Russell Train, a life-long Republican and […]
That didn’t take long. The Washington bureau chief of Sinclair Broadcast Group was fired yesterday after accusing the media company of “indefensible” conduct for planning to air a movie attacking Sen. John Kerry’s Vietnam record in the coming days. Jon Leiberman, who also was the lead political reporter for the 62-station television chain, told CNN […]
I got several frustrated emails and phone calls yesterday expressing concern over the latest round of polls showing Bush edging ahead nationally. The concern is misplaced. Instead of relaying the data from the slew of recent polls — some of which show Bush up, others Kerry up — let’s instead rely on Ezra Klein’s fine […]
Way back in February, CNN ran a feature about Bush’s job losses and noted that this president had the worst record on employment of any president in seven decades. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao was on hand to insist we’re all looking at the wrong numbers. Judy Woodruff: “I want to cite the one economic analyst […]
The gloves are clearly off. With two weeks to go, the Kerry campaign is seizing on a handful of Bush’s biggest vulnerabilities. One of them is obviously Social Security, which Kerry describes as Bush’s “January Surprise.” Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry accused President Bush on Sunday of planning a surprise second-term effort to privatize Social Security […]
Sinclair Broadcast Group’s stock wasn’t doing well before its owners decided to intervene on Bush’s behalf, but now the company’s value is plummeting. The stock has been dropping all day, as news of advertisers fleeing the company reaches investors. As of right now, Sinclair has lost almost 5% of its value since this morning and […]
Brent Scowcroft, the first President Bush’s national security adviser, has been trying to warn this Bush White House about Iraq for a long while. He was right, but the administration ignored him. In August 2002, Scowcroft said a U.S. invasion of Iraq could “turn the whole region into a cauldron and, thus, destroy the war […]
The Kerry campaign had an interesting observation over the weekend: Bush hasn’t been in Ohio in a while. No one knows why. Ohio’s polls show the state is still a toss-up. With 20 electoral votes, Bush will almost certainly lose the election without the state’s support. Kerry is visiting Ohio a couple of times a […]
I wanted to make sure readers were aware of this devastating report from Knight Ridder about the administration’s post-war planning. Or in this case, non-existent post-war planning. In March 2003, days before the start of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, American war planners and intelligence officials met at Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina […]
Bush, at the second presidential debate: “Of course, I listen to our generals. That’s what a president does. A president sets the strategy and relies upon good military people to execute that strategy.” Bush, at a White House press conference with Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Allawi last month: “[W]hen our commanders say that they need […]