I’m pleased to report that the Justice Department’s order to libraries to destroy public documents on asset forfeitures, which I talked about last week, has been rescinded. The Justice Department last week rescinded an order that would have required federal depository libraries to withdraw and destroy five department publications that library advocates argued should remain […]
Over the weekend, it looked like the Illinois GOP had finally focused in on a candidate to take on Barack Obama: Cook County Commissioner Liz Gorman. She’s a young, fresh face from the state’s biggest city, she’s a woman, and she’s considered a “rising star” among Illinois Republicans. But just as the state committee charged […]
I know the next “big thing” on the political calendar is the Republican convention later this month, but I keep looking past it and thinking about the debates. The first match-up, assuming Bush agrees to the schedule, will be in Miami eight weeks from tomorrow. The Commission on Presidential Debates deserves credit for being clever. […]
A couple of weeks ago, I noted how Bush relied on David Kay as an ally in proving the necessity of the war in Iraq. It wasn’t a good idea; Kay later concluded that Bush “should have been able to tell before the war that the evidence did not exist for drawing the conclusion that […]
Laura Bush is entitled to her opinions, but she couldn’t have picked a sillier forum to talk about media bias. First lady Laura Bush thinks the news media is increasingly filled with opinions instead of facts, and suggested Tuesday that journalists are contributing to the polarization of the country. “I think there are a lot […]
I promise not to do this all the time. Fact-checking every speech Dick “Go F— Yourself” Cheney delivers would be virtually impossible — it’d require a full-time staff just to chronicle all of his misstatements, better yet correct them. That said, I think Cheney’s comments in Arkansas yesterday about energy policy require special attention because […]
The Bush’s campaign’s blog may end up regretting this one. The conservative National Review ran an item yesterday mocking firefighters who have expressed support for the Kerry campaign. That’s typical for the National Review’s style and no one was particularly surprised. But it’s a little more problematic when the Bush campaign highlights the article on […]
This is one of those scenarios that’s almost too scary to even think about, but it’s so serious, it can’t be overlooked. In his 2002 SOTU, Bush seemed to have his priorities straight. “The United States of America will not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the worlds’ most destructive weapons,” […]
John Kerry will do something today that George Bush would never do: Brag about support from Big Business. In a campaign in which the Dems are more-than-anxious to go after traditional GOP voters, this makes a lot of sense. It may even have the desired effect. The Wall Street Journal reported in June that what […]
This probably won’t help those conspiracy theories about Bush and the House of Saud: Imagine what documentary filmmaker Michael Moore could have done with this: Crown Prince Abdullah, Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, last year gave President Bush, his family and top aides $128,000 worth of fine jewelry, according to the State Department’s annual list […]