Maybe someone in the Bush administration should get Colin Powell a cell phone. That way, when there’s something important the Secretary of State ought to know, someone at the White House can call him and let him know. Right now, they seem to be having a little trouble communicating with him. We learned last month, […]
As I mentioned earlier, Bush will be hosting a White House event tonight, celebrating the National Day of Prayer with evangelical Christian leaders. As the Washington Post noted, it’ll be broadcasted, but only to a limited TV audience. For Bush, the broadcast is an opportunity to address a sympathetic evangelical audience without the risk of […]
It’s kind of funny to look back at last year and realize that Howard Dean did John Kerry an enormous favor last fall by opting out of the public campaign financing system. It may turn out to be of those critical moments that are more important in retrospect than at the time. Indeed, Dean’s decision […]
For the longest time, Nevada was effectively off the table when it came to presidential campaigns. From 1968 to 1988, the GOP won the state’s electoral votes every time. They weren’t particularly close, either. As the state’s population grew quickly, however, so too did its significance and unpredictability. Now, like most of the country, Nevada […]
Thanks to everyone who wrote in yesterday with comments about the Bush web video that doesn’t include the “I approve this message” tag line. The consensus seems to be that Bush has, indeed, found a legitimate loophole around the “Stand By Your Ad” provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. I apparently missed it, but […]
Just to follow-up for a moment on an earlier post, it’s not hard to find calls for Rumsfeld’s resignation today. A lot of people are calling for his head. On the Hill, Joe Biden wants a resignation, so does Tom Harkin and John Corzine. Thomas Friedman’s New York Times column says Rumsfeld has to go. […]
Stories like this one are so routine — and so predictable — they hardly register the outrage that they should anymore. The 30 companies that own most of the dirtiest power plants in the country, and their trade association, have raised $6.6 million for President Bush and the Republican National Committee since 1999, and were […]
I know a lot of Dems were despondent when, in late April, the disasters surrounding the Bush presidency didn’t seem to be having much of an effect on his poll numbers. April was one of the worst months of Bush’s presidency, but the numbers weren’t reflecting it. The pundits were saying that Bush had weathered […]
All the major papers lead today with huge reports about Bush admonishing Rumsfeld over his mishandling of the Abu Ghraib scandal. President Bush privately admonished Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld yesterday, a senior White House official said, as other U.S. officials blamed the Pentagon for failing to act on repeated recommendations to improve conditions for […]
While the Bush administration continues to insist that Iraq will be a secular country, the same administration continues to issue government edicts encouraging Americans to pray. For some reason, I find this strangely contradictory. It may not be one of the major gift-giving holidays on the calendar, but today is one of Bush’s favorite days […]