If you haven’t already seen it, CNN offers one of the more unintentionally-hilarious reports in a long time. The headline gets the ball rolling nicely: “Nation split on Bush as uniter or divider.” On the eve of President Bush’s inauguration, a poll shows the nation is split over whether he has united or divided the […]
For a movement that claimed to be on top of the political world after the elections in November, the religious right hasn’t had a great winter. Despite the religious right’s demands, Arlen Specter was confirmed as the Judiciary Committee chairman with unanimous GOP support. Despite the movement’s principles, the new co-chair of the Republican National […]
It’s those fine red states that vote Republican because they embrace the values of self-reliance and limited government, right? That may be the rhetoric, but it sure isn’t the reality. In his inaugural address tomorrow, I’m guessing, George W. Bush will take a moment to reaffirm the “red state” values that returned him and the […]
Usually, ambitious people with a record of ethical lapses run for office and then get mired in a scandal. Ralph Reed’s vision for his career, much like his approach to politics, is backwards — scandal first, campaign second. As readers may recall, the former Christian Coalition director, who once called gambling “a cancer on the […]
Let’s see, it’s the president’s inauguration week and he continues to talk about the biggest domestic policy initiative of his second term, privatizing Social Security. How’s the momentum looking? * A new Washington Post/ABC News poll showed Americans strongly prefer Dems’ approach to Social Security to Bush’s, 50% to 37%. * A new LA Times […]
After-post Update: Looks like reports that the research would be kept under wraps were wildly off-base. The report was not only issued to news outlets, but the whole thing is available to everyone online. In other words…never mind. After yet another election cycle in which exit polls proved unreliable in many key states nationwide, there […]
It was a year ago this week when Howard Dean, going into a key race as the obvious frontrunner, saw his support plummet and campaign implode. With this in mind, I certainly won’t be bold as to say Dean is a shoe-in for DNC chair — but he’s certainly getting closer to nailing down the […]
Considering my recent rant about reporters’ inability to acknowledge Bush’s deceptions over Social Security, I thought it only fair to give credit where credit is due. Time magazine’s Karen Tumulty and Eric Roston in a straight-up news story — not an editorial, column, or “news analysis” piece — managed to tell readers the truth about […]
The purpose of “wedge” politics, which Dems are not good at (and have never really tried), is finding those issues on the periphery in which opponents of a given issue start to bring supporters to the other side. On an issue like abortion, parental notification and late-term abortions are classic wedges — most Americans are […]
I can understand, to a certain extent, why today’s House Republicans have turned their collective backs on some of the reforms mandated by the Contract with America. Ideas such as term limits and a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution look pretty ridiculous in hindsight, so it’s tough to criticize the GOP for abandoning the ideas […]