Posted by Morbo The Federal Marriage Amendment failed to pass either the House of Representatives or the Senate earlier this year, but don’t expect the issue to go away. Visit any Religious Right website and you’ll find plenty of calls for changing the Constitution to ban same-sex marriage. After all, the “values voters” have spoken, […]
[Editor’s Note: Seeing the Forest and Eriposte have been following this story closely for a couple of weeks, but I thought Morbo had some valuable insight to add to the subject – CB] Posted by Morbo Have you heard the one about the public school teacher in California who has been told he can’t tell […]
Sorry, but it’s a rare day-off here at The Carpetbagger Report. I’ll be back Monday with plenty of long-winded tirades for your reading pleasure. Check back tomorrow, by the way, for a great guest post from the now-infamous Morbo. But before I go, I’d like to recommend the one must-read item of the day, which […]
I hate to criticize the liberal line twice in two days, but I have a few concerns about Choose the Blue, which seems to be growing quickly in popularity among my fellow libs. If you haven’t heard about it, the site sounds like a decent idea. Here’s how the site’s creators explain what the project […]
I don’t know a lot about Bernard Kerik, Bush’s choice to lead the Department of Homeland Security, but Fred Kaplan laid out a variety of concerns about Kerik’s qualifications that bring his qualifications that raise some serious red flags and should, at an absolute minimum, give the Senate pause during his confirmation hearings. Less important, […]
This hardly sounds encouraging. Bad weather Wednesday forced the military to scrub the first full flight test of its national missile defense system in nearly two years. “It is just heavy cloud cover,” Rick Lehner, a spokesman for the Missile Defense Agency, said of conditions Wednesday evening off the Alaskan coast. Is it me, or […]
Bush, in the Oval Office today: “We will not raise payroll taxes to solve this [Social Security] problem.” Bush, a few minutes later: “I will not prejudge any solution.”
After 9/11, the White House said the creation of a terrorist target list would be a key national priority. After the DHS was created, Tom Ridge identified the list of possible sites as a key departmental task. Almost three years later, the Bush administration isn’t exactly getting the job done. The Bush administration’s effort to […]
In the ongoing race for DNC chair, one of Howard Dean’s bigger stumbling blocks was his refusal to rule out running for president again in ’08. Nearly everyone involved in the process, including Dean supporters, seemed to agree that the next party chair, whomever he or she may be, must be prepared to skip the […]
Speaking of Bush’s cabinet, John Snow was expected to be the ninth member of Bush’s cabinet to leave, but instead that honor falls to Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi, leaving just six members of Bush’s first-term, 15-member cabinet remaining. As Bush cabinet secretaries go, I never found Principi outrageously offensive, which is probably why he […]