You may have heard some talk last week that Bush is interested in improving his relationships with European countries he shunned in his first term, smoothing over some of the tensions that have built up since 2002. Naturally, these rumors about improved relations are meaningless. As was reported in yesterday’s Political Wire, Bush won’t even […]
How divisive was the Bush campaign’s strategy? Even Arthur Finkelstein is disappointed. Arthur Finkelstein, a Republican consultant known for hard-edged campaigns that helped conservatives in the United States and Israel, has said in an interview published in Israel that President Bush’s campaign strategy to court evangelical Christians had divided the country as never before, to […]
The ongoing fight over Arlen Specter’s Senate Judiciary Committee fate seems to have made one thing clear: Bush will win either way. Yesterday, the five-term incumbent acted like a man prepared for a job interview. Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., wants to make his case to be chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee directly to the […]
Because the email appears to be making a comeback this week — and because Kos fell for the same mistake — I thought I’d take a moment to talk about W. David Hager. The email that many of you no doubt saw includes some pretty serious charges about Hager’s background. President Bush has announced his […]
And speaking of 2008, for those of us who greatly admire Hillary Clinton but don’t want her to run for president, it’s troublesome to hear her joke about it, even a little. Hillary Clinton didn’t exactly announce her candidacy for president last night in a speech at Tufts University. But just a hint of her […]
I’m not sure why speculation about 2008 is frowned upon. A lot of people seem to find it unseemly so soon after this year’s election; others find it silly since it’s so far away. I look at it altogether differently. Candidates are clearly thinking about the ’08 race, so why should the rest of us […]
I half expect a story to come out one of these days announcing that Monty Burns and Dr. Evil have been secretly running Halliburton for the last few years. It might explain the rampant corruption. The U.S. ambassador to Kuwait intervened last year to ensure that Halliburton, the oil services company once led by Vice […]
I see no reason to reinvent the wheel when it comes to Alberto Gonzales’ nomination as attorney general, so I thought I’d just offer a round-up of important items. * Michael Froomkin does a great job recapping Gonzales’ role in the Plame Game scandal. * The New Republic’s Ryan Lizza wrote a piece two years […]
As the budget deficit gets worse, the White House keeps telling us to ignore reality. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office says otherwise. Americans are right to be concerned about the long-term impact of budget deficits projected to reach $2.3 trillion over the next decade, but there is little near-term danger of an economic catastrophe, the […]
Left with no other options, Senate Dems have blocked a handful of Bush’s most extreme judicial nominees with filibusters. Republicans would have us believe this contributed to Dem setbacks on Election Day. This is utter nonsense. Jubilant over their Election Day domination, GOP senators say those results prove that Democrats should stay away from filibusters […]