I know these kinds of reactions are predictable, but they’re necessary. If the Dem Majority Leader had been rebuked by the House Ethics Committee three times in six days for a variety of sordid scandals, you better believe the GOP and the various sympathetic groups would go apoplectic until he or she was gone. House […]
I have to give Lynne Cheney, the vice president’s wife and director of the National Endowment for the Humanities during the Reagan and H.W. Bush years, credit for keeping a relatively low profile. I expected otherwise four years ago. Cheney has been a successful conservative activist for years — long before her husband was even […]
One of the primary, but utterly useless, arguments from the Bush campaign lately is that John Kerry, more than 30 years ago, told a college newspaper that troops should be sent around the world at the directive of the United Nations. Kerry had just returned from Vietnam and he was angry. He certainly doesn’t believe […]
To complement the abysmal job numbers released this morning, I’d like to point out that the irreplaceable Center on Budget and Policy Priorities had a few interesting observations about the 2004 fiscal year, which just wrapped up with a deficit of $415 billion. A few highlights: * The 2004 deficit marks the fourth consecutive year […]
Researchers at Cornel recently discovered that Bush’s poll numbers trend upwards every time the government issues another terrorist warning. But I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that as soon as John Kerry starts to pull ahead, federal officials announce that America’s schools need to be prepared for a possible terrorist attack. The FBI and the […]
Bush’s week from hell just got a little worse. Companies added 96,000 jobs to their payrolls in September, fewer than economists forecast for the last employment report before Election Day, highlighting a modest pace of hiring that has become an issue in President Bush’s bid for another term. […] Job growth was held down by […]
Michael Froomkin noticed a terribly amusing quote from a Dick Cheney speech in Florida this week. “The problem with that is, there isn’t anything in John Kerry’s background — oh, for the last 30 years — that gives you any reason to believe that he would, in fact, be tough in terms of prosecuting the […]
I’ve seen several comparisons of Oklahoma Senate candidate Tom Coburn to former Sen. Jesse Helms, but Coburn has taken the similarities to a new level by using Helms’ race-baiting campaign commercials and making them worse. Helms, in his 1990 Senate race against Harvey Gantt, ran one of the most vile TV campaign ads ever aired. […]
Yesterday afternoon, Bush was awfully anxious to boast of the United Nation’s ongoing presence in Iraq. “[My opponent] wants the U.N. to be involved in those elections. Well, the U.N. is already there [in Iraq].” A couple of hours later, as if on cue, the AP reported: Two organizations representing more than 60,000 United Nations […]
As if it weren’t bad enough when public officials try to stop American Indians from voting, now Bush administration officials trying to suppress efforts to get American Indians registered. Officials at a federal program that runs hospitals and clinics serving Native Americans this summer prohibited employees from using those facilities to sign up new voters, […]