The New York Times appears to have buried the lede today in its story about Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.). The Times emphasizes what we already know: he won’t vote for Bush on Election Day. The story, however, included a lot of interesting information about Chafee’s future. For example, Chafee has been talking about his options […]
In one of the more memorable exchanges of last week’s debate, Bush emphasized the significance of Poland’s role in the war in Iraq. Kerry: [W]hen we went in, there were three countries: Great Britain, Australia and the United States. That’s not a grand coalition. We can do better. Bush: Well, actually, he forgot Poland. And […]
Chalk up another life-long Republican who is anxious to vote for John Kerry. This time the issue is the environment and the Republican is Nixon’s former EPA director. Russell Train is so disappointed in President Bush’s environmental record that the staunch Republican, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s second leader 30 years ago, is casting his […]
From the front page of Saturday’s Washington Post: The Internet, which was created in the 1960s as a communications network that could survive a Soviet nuclear attack, has emerged as a prime tool of Islamic radicals. They use its anonymity to coordinate operations secretly and to get their message to the public sphere with little […]
The difference between making a mistake and lying is foreknowledge. Given this, it sure looks like Condoleezza Rice and other White House officials were lying before the war about Iraq’s non-existent nuclear weapons program. In 2002, at a crucial juncture on the path to war, senior members of the Bush administration gave a series of […]
As we get closer to Election Day, national polls are less and less meaningful in their predictive value. That said, if mid-September’s national data sent Dems everywhere into a panic, the latest polls should generate near-euphoria among the same people. Newsweek’s national poll, for example, had Bush up by 11 less than a month ago […]
If you’ve been away from the blogosphere since Friday, you may not have heard that the estimable Josh Marshall uncovered the fact that Fox News has taken to literally making things up about John Kerry. The chief political correspondent for “Fox News” wrote a fictitious story Friday referring to Sen. John F. Kerry as a […]