You may have seen Fahrenheit 9/11 and thought it was a devastating indictment of a corrupt administration. But leave it to the great minds at The Daily Show to do an even better job — in a fraction of the time. This isn’t just a “must-see” video; this is a “drop-whatever-you’re-doing-and-share-this-with-everyone video.” Check it out. […]
No wonder Bush didn’t want to talk about job creation or unemployment last night — his policies still aren’t creating the jobs he promised. We learned this morning that the economy added 144,000 jobs in August, which Reuters described as a “brighten[ing]” of the job market. That’s an unusually forgiving spin to discouraging news. These […]
I’m afraid I need another day off; sorry. That annoying cold I had last week has turned into an annoying flu this week. I can’t prove it, but I’m pretty sure Zell Miller’s hate-filled, wild-eyed rant worsened my condition. And speaking of Zell, his “speech” has to be the biggest catastrophe I’ve seen in a […]
It may not be the kind of development that’ll shake up the campaign (though I wish it were), but I couldn’t help but notice that the more Bush has spoken about national security lately, the more he commits distracting mistakes that he regrets. I’m not talking about amusing Bushisms in which the president gets confused […]
Following though on his promise, Bush sued the FEC today. No one’s sure why. President Bush’s campaign asked a court Wednesday to force the Federal Election Commission to act on its complaints against anti-Bush groups spending millions of dollars in the presidential race, arguing that the FEC is failing to do its job. In a […]
I can understand why Chuck Grassley wouldn’t want liberal groups running TV ads about Bush’s Medicare debacle — the plan is, after all, a pretty embarrassing fiasco — but his attacks against the ads don’t make a lot of sense. Sen Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said some advertisements on television and posted on the Internet are […]
Bush has created a debacle for the ages in Iraq, but he can always point to his success in Afghanistan, right? After all, as the president has explained, he put the Taliban “out of business forever.” Afghanistan, we’re told, was the “first victory in the war on terror.” Too bad none of this is true. […]
Based on a valuable suggestion from a long-time reader, let’s call him Chief Osceola, I noticed an interesting piece of data. According to Nexis transcripts, CNN featured 63 segments the week of the Democratic convention about Teresa Heinz Kerry telling some right-wing reporter to “shove it.” In contrast, CNN has done 25 segments this week […]
I don’t know how many of you regularly read Slate’s William Saletan, but for a moderate Republican, this guy’s written two pieces this week that are some of the best, most important, items I’ve seen in a while. I can’t recommend them strongly enough. Yesterday, Saletan had the guts (and the wisdom) to explain what […]
Fortunately, there’s at least some backlash in response to Republicans mocking injured veterans during the convention. Even leading Republicans said yesterday that things went a little too far when they had to publicly repudiate the actions of a delegate who was handing out adhesive bandages marked with Purple Hearts to mock Mr. Kerry’s war wounds. […]