I’m largely indifferent to the fate of Disney, but when a very silly religious right groups ends a ridiculous boycott without any of its demands being met, I’m pleased. A conservative Christian group has ended its boycott of the Walt Disney Co., launched nine years ago in response to what leaders perceived as the erosion […]
Joshua Green has a tremendous piece in the current issue of Rolling Stone, of all places, on Tom DeLay and the efforts that have led him into his current predicament. It suggests the left, after years of struggling, has finally figured out how to go after the GOP majority aggressively and effectively. First, Green sets […]
Roll Call has a really interesting article today (alas, it’s unavailable to non-subscribers) on Wesley Clark and the role he is establishing for himself in Dem policy circles. There’s a lot to this. Retired Gen. Wesley Clark has taken a high-profile role, both on and off Capitol Hill, as a Democratic spokesman and foreign policy […]
Like Atrios, I think the local report in Texas offered the best perspective on what transpired this morning. State District Judge Joe Hart ruled Thursday that Texans for a Republican Majority violated state campaign law when it failed to disclose more than a half-million dollars in corporate contributions during the 2002 state legislative elections. Hart, […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) formally announced yesterday that he will run in 2006 for the seat being vacated by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R). He’ll face State Sen. Rosalind Kurita (D) […]
When Bush first publicly threatened to veto the Castle-DeGette stem-cell legislation, the idea was the power of his warning would intimidate the House to back down. It didn’t work — 50 House Republican joined 187 Dems in passing the bill. So Bush tried again yesterday, insisting that he’s inflexible about supporting the potentially life-saving research. […]
I was catching up on some TV the other day and caught Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America, on PBS’ “NOW” with David Brancaccio. (C&L has a clip from the show.) There was one part of the interview that was stunning, even by today’s religious right standards. Brancaccio: So in my efforts […]
Last month, in one of those a-little-too-candid moments, Harry Reid told reporters that “it would take a miracle” for Dems to pick up five senate seats in 2006 and get back to a 50-50 split. In an interesting interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, […]
It was one of those silly examples that captured the absurdity of Republican politics perfectly. Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) was frustrated that France was opposed to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, so he thought it’d be a poignant gesture to change the name of “french fries” to “freedom fries” in the House dining hall. After […]
In the unlikely event you haven’t seen this elsewhere, I wanted to highlight one of the more amusing Freudian slips in a long while, by way of our friends at the Fox News Channel. Media Matters reported that Fox News anchor David Asman was interviewing Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) yesterday, inquiring as to why the […]