There’s been a flurry of interesting items lately about the next presidential race, with several players positioning themselves carefully. Wisconsin’s Russ Feingold (D), for example, was in Florida over the weekend to talk to locals about his interest in the job. U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., told the Tiger Bay Club of Volusia County on […]
Bush and the Republicans need polls to shape their message and direction… The Republicans left an annual retreat in the Allegheny Mountains with a 104-page playbook titled “Saving Social Security,” a deliberate echo of the language President Bill Clinton used to argue that the retirement system’s trust fund should be built up in anticipation of […]
The whole Republican gang got together over the weekend and they’d like everyone to know that they just can’t wait to privatize Social Security. Congressional Republicans, after three months of internal debate, this weekend launched a months-long campaign to try to convince constituents that rewriting the Social Security law would be cheaper and less risky […]
Gov. Bob Ehrlich (R-Md.) hasn’t been having much luck lately. Half-way into his first (and probably only) term, Ehrlich’s most notable achievements have been starting a feud with state journalists and vetoing medical malpractice legislation aiming to reform the state’s health care system, which had broad bi-partisan support. Apparently hoping to become even less popular, […]
The Bush administration, which is supposed to believe tax cuts are the miracle cure for literally any problem, is, in a manner of speaking, recommending a tax increase for the millions of Americans who buy airline tickets. A fee charged to airline travelers to help pay for airport security would more than double under President […]
We interrupt the Dean-is-the-inevitable-DNC-chair narrative with word that the frontrunner has hit his first real speed bump. In a sign of resistance to Howard Dean’s bid to lead the Democratic Party, the executive board of the Association of State Democratic Chairs recommended on Sunday that the association endorse one of Dr. Dean’s rivals, Donnie Fowler […]
It’s heartening to see the elections in Iraq go as well as they did yesterday. This war may be one of the most dramatic foreign policy debacles in generations, but encouraging developments bring hope, whether one believes the invasion was a good idea or not. But, like Bob Herbert, I see this as encouraging news […]
Posted by Morbo By now it should be obvious even to someone as thick as Focus on the Family founder Dr. James C. Dobson that President George W. Bush doesn’t intend to spend a lot of political capital pushing for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. First, Bush dumped all over the idea in an […]
Posted by Morbo After the embarrassing revelation that the U.S. Department of Education paid conservative commentator Armstrong Williams nearly a quarter of million dollars to promote the No Child Left Behind law, one would think that federal agency would bend over backwards to avoid doing anything else stupid. One would be wrong. On her second […]
Posted by Morbo The U.S. Roman Catholic bishops take their obligation to provide a moral education for young adults very seriously. Last July, the bishops approved a new policy forbidding Catholic colleges from giving “awards, honors and platforms” to those who disagree with church teachings. This was seen as an effort to keep pro-abortion fanatics […]