There’s been no shortage on advice for John Kerry lately. I’ve lost count of how many have suggested that there’s a magical, rhetorical silver bullet out there that would put Kerry up for good if only he’d use it. If he’d only say this, whatever this is, enough voters would come to their senses that […]
There may be only two months before Election Day, but Congress is returning to session and lawmakers are still looking at a congressional agenda with far more items than days left to consider them. Not surprisingly, as my friend Eugene Oregon noted, Republican leaders are confident that the limited time remaining can be exploited for […]
I’ll never have the time or the energy to point out every insane thing Dick Cheney says over the next two months, but there was something that jumped out at me this morning that I feel compelled to mention. Mr. Cheney, campaigning in Clear Lake, Iowa, criticized Mr. Kerry for “demeaning our allies.” “When it […]
I’m not disappointed that there’s another right-wing 527 getting ready to tarnish our political discourse; I’m disappointed that it’s not more creative about coming up with a name. Move over, MoveOn.org. The liberal-leaning group that has raised millions of dollars to run negative ads attacking President Bush now has a competitor on the right with […]
My friend Tom Schaller raised an important point two weeks ago about fatalities in Iraq: The number of Americans killed in Iraq during 2004 now exceeds the number killed in 2003. More remarkably, the 488 killed thus far this year died in just 239 days (2.04 daily average), while the 482 killed last year died […]
About two weeks ago, the New York Times reported that the public could expect to see something at the Republican convention that was absent from the Dems’: details. President Bush will present what aides say will be a detailed second-term agenda when he is nominated in New York in 10 days, part of an ambitious […]
It was bound to happen. Late Friday afternoon on Labor Day weekend? It’s the ideal time for the Bush administration to release bad news it doesn’t want the public to see. This time it was the largest increase, in dollar terms, in Medicare premiums in the history of the program. Health insurance premiums for senior […]
There are still two months to go in this campaign, and there will be plenty more Bushisms along the way, but this one’s truly embarrassing. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., Sept. 6 — The God-fearing folk of this rural hamlet must have been mighty scandalized Monday evening when President Bush dropped by to tell them about a […]
Admit it; I saw you looking for a window to jump out of when Newsweek and Time showed Bush jumping to an 11-point lead over Kerry. The hand-wringing done over the weekend was enough to cause a carpel tunnel epidemic. I even know what you were thinking — Kerry is making Gore’s mistakes, the Swiftboat […]
It shouldn’t technically count against me as a day off, since it’s a national holiday. Go out, have fun, and stay away from your computer. See you tomorrow.