It was quite a week for Republican law-making. Apparently, upon realizing that they were about to head home to see constituents over their August recess, and they couldn’t point to any real legislative accomplishments since intervention in the Terri Schiavo tragedy, GOP lawmakers passed a flurry of conservative wish-list items. We saw: * an energy […]
Guest Post by Morbo The Carpetbagger has been all over “Rovegate” since it was called the Plame Game. I’ve refrained from writing about it, since the ‘Bagger’s commentary has been so thorough and insightful. (And I’m not just saying that to suck-up because he runs the blog. By the way, has anyone else noticed his […]
Guest Post by Morbo In a Monday post, the Carpetbagger commented on a New York Times story concerning members of the military in Iraq who are dismayed over the public’s weak support for the war. These soldiers feel like they are fighting alone and that people on the home front are disconnected from what is […]
Guest Post by Morbo I just happened to walk by the television and saw that my 7-year-old son was watching “Postcards from Buster,” the PBS show that a few months ago got Education Secretary Margaret Spellings’ nylons in knots because one episode contained a brief segment featuring lesbian couple. Spellings sent a nasty threatening letter […]
Guest Post by Morbo The results are in from the “Idiotic State Legislator of the Week” contest, and the winner is (drum roll, please)…Sen. Parley Hellewell of Orem, Utah! This Republican lawmaker recently had a bright idea: Bring prayer back to public schools! Teach the Bible in class! It can all be done through a […]
The three ticket-holding, law-abiding Americans who were removed from a presidential event in Denver because of a bumper-sticker will not, unfortunately, get relief from the Secret Service. Federal prosecutors have declined to press charges of impersonating a Secret Service agent against a White House volunteer who forcibly ousted three people from a speech by President […]
Is the president, as Dan Froomkin asked today, “on a roll“? Various news reports suggest he is. Consider this New York Times piece today on Bush’s recent fortunes. His problems remain many, and include the relentless violence in Iraq, the leak investigation that has ensnared some of his top aides and poll numbers that suggest […]
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) got into a little trouble last August when he divulged classified intercepted messages to the media while serving on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Specifically, Fox News’ Carl Cameron confirmed to FBI investigators that Shelby verbally divulged information to him during a June 2002 interview, literally minutes after Shelby’s committee […]
The blogosphere was surprisingly abuzz yesterday with positive talk about Al Gore. Wittmann, Yglesias, Atrios, and Ezra — not all of whom, I might add, agree on everything — all had very positive things to say about the former Vice President, even in a 2008 context. Ezra, who’s been on board with Gore for a […]
As a Roll Call subscriber, I saw this story yesterday, but didn’t think much of it at the time. The National Republican Senatorial Committee is set to launch its first television ads of the cycle, targeting Sen. Robert Byrd (W.Va.) and charging that the longest-serving Senate Democrat has grown out of touch with voters back […]