Let’s see, for four years the Bush administration has gone to extraordinary lengths to prevent the reimportation of prescription medication for Americans. With just three months before Election Day, Bush now decides he thinks reimportation “makes sense” and wants to see if he can make it work. Can you say grade-A, major-league, jaw-dropping flip-flop? In […]
The charter school controversy got its third day of play in the New York Times today, this time by way of an op-ed from the Rev. Floyd Flake. Unfortunately, he left out a significant detail about which readers should have been told. Flake presented a spirited defense and defended the charter school system against recent […]
Republicans have developed a clever plan to boost GOP turnout in several key states — put gay marriage proposals on the ballot. For the right, it’s a two-fer. Anti-gay conservatives will be motivated to turn out in greater numbers to vote on a culture war issue, and while they’re in the voting booth, they’ll probably […]
According to the president, David Kay’s opinion is a matter of significant importance. “In 2002, the United Nations Security Council yet again demanded a full accounting of Saddam Hussein’s weapons programs. As he had for over a decade, Saddam Hussein refused to comply. In fact, according to former weapons inspector David Kay, Iraq’s weapons programs […]
A month after Barack Obama delivered one of the best keynote addresses I’ve ever heard, the Republicans have announced their keynote speaker for this year’s convention. You may have heard of him; his name is Zell Miller. Ed Gillespie, Chairman of the Republican National Committee, and Mark Wallace, Bush-Cheney ’04 Deputy Campaign Manager, today announced […]
Almost 10 months to the day after Donald Rumsfeld announced a Pentagon investigation into Lt. Gen. William G. “Jerry” Boykin, deputy undersecretary of defense for intelligence, we learn what was pretty obvious all along — Boykin was violating military guidelines for official conduct. Boykin, you may recall, caused a bit of a stir last fall […]
Bush did his best to emphasize his record on helping veterans yesterday, but he left out some important details that military families probably should know. Hoping to gather enough support in northwestern Wisconsin to turn the state his way in November, President Bush said Wednesday he will push for extra education benefits for National Guard […]
The Bush campaign’s decision to try and obtain church directories for partisan political use continues to haunt them. Good; it was a sleazy move that deserves the negative attention it’s received. It started a couple of months ago, when a “religious outreach” scheme was launched. The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has sent a detailed plan of […]
Larry Thurlow, one of Kerry’s leading attackers as part of the Swiftboat Veterans for Bush, has been insisting that Kerry doesn’t deserve a Bronze Stars for a firefight in 1969 because Kerry’s boat wasn’t under enemy fire. Kerry and everyone who was on Kerry’s boat remember things differently and think Thurlow is lying. If only […]
I admit it; I’m addicted to anecdotes like these. There are a million of ’em, but I’m collecting them all. The Washington Post’s Richard Leiby spoke this week to John Prather, a “mild-mannered math prof” at Ohio University’s Eastern Campus, who came up with a clever idea to see which campaign better tolerates dissent. Prather’s […]