On three previous occasions, various groups and individuals have offered cash for proof that Bush fulfilled his responsibilities to the National Guard. On each occasion, the money has gone unclaimed. Four years ago, a group of veterans in Texas offered $2,000 to anyone with any kind of evidence to bolster Bush’s claims about his Guard […]
It has to be embarrassing for Bush that he’s going to be the first president since Herbert Hoover, who served 70 years ago, to preside over a net loss of jobs in America. The Bush-Hoover connection looked slightly worse for the incumbent when Bush started using Hoover-like language in his stump speech last month (Bush […]
I have to admit, I’ve heard about Karl Rove’s drive to bring 4 million evangelical Christians who stayed home four years so many times, I was starting to think it’s true. Thankfully, Marisa Katz has done a terrific job challenging the conventional wisdom on this oft-repeated claim. You’ve probably heard the pitch. Appearing at the […]
Slate’s William Saletan noticed that the same day Bush accused Kerry of wanting to put “big government in charge” of Americans’ health care choices, Bush embraced the approach himself. President Bush on Monday repeated his opposition to allowing seniors to buy U.S.-made prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies as a way to save money, calling it […]
The substance of this story is irritating, but the underlying point is the truly offensive part. A majority of the U.S. House of Representatives is supporting legislation that would repeal virtually all of the District’s gun restrictions, targeting one of the nation’s most stringent handgun bans while the presidential candidates are battling over gun limits. […]
Just four days after a Florida judge ruled that Ralph Nader’s name must be left off the state’s presidential ballot, the Florida’s election chief has ordered Nader onto the ballot anyway. It’s as if the state was concerned that it wasn’t a big enough embarrassment to democracy, so it wanted to ratchet things up a […]
Remember when a U.S. Marshal confiscated and erased journalists’ tapes of an Antonin Scalia speech? The reporters involved in the controversy sued, and fortunately, won. The government has conceded that the U.S. Marshals Service violated federal law when a marshal ordered reporters with The Associated Press and the Hattiesburg American to erase their recordings of […]
Paul Krugman was in rare form today, writing in just over 700 words exactly why John Kerry enjoys the high ground over Bush on national security U.S. news organizations are under constant pressure to report good news from Iraq. In fact, as a Newsweek headline puts it, “It’s worse than you think.” Attacks on coalition […]
At a campaign event in Holland, Mich., yesterday, Bush seemed to suggest he spoke directly to John Kerry recently. “I’m running against a fellow who’s promised at least $2 trillion in new money so far. And we haven’t even gotten in the stretch run yet. So I said to him the other day, well, how […]
I’ve noted with some fascination the outrageous rhetoric Tom Coburn has used in his Senate campaign in Oklahoma. I’ve even speculated that his tendency for vitriolic language may ultimately ruin his campaign. It turns out, however, that Coburn has a far bigger problem to deal with. According to records obtained by Salon, Coburn filed an […]