Guest Post by Morbo I’m fascinated over how the two wings of the Republican Party — business-oriented, free market conservatives vs. fundamentalist Christian social conservatives — continue to exist alongside one another. On some issues, they just don’t get along. Fundamentalists are appalled by pornography and want the Justice Department to shut it down. Free-market […]
Guest Post by Morbo I know that Halloween is more than six months away, but if you want a good scare right now, read Jeffrey Rosen’s article “The Unregulated Offensive” in last week’s New York Times Magazine. Rosen examines a fringe legal theory held by members of an extreme Libertarian sect called the “Constitution in […]
Guest Post by Morbo Here’s a follow-up to last week’s post about attorney David C. Gibbs III and his accusations against Michael Schiavo. Last week, the Florida Department of Children and Families issued a report finding that none of the 89 complaints of abuse levied against Michael Schiavo since 2001 is credible. According to a […]
Chuck Grassley, in explaining why he’s abandoning efforts at bi-partisanship in dealing with Social Security, told the New York Times, “I’m going to put together a Republican-only bill as a first step to getting bipartisan support because I can’t lose time waiting for the Democrats to come to the table.” The funny thing is, Dems […]
I’m very sorry for the technical difficulties this morning. I realize that almost everything is not functioning right now (links to individual posts, the comments section, the archives, the search feature) and am pulling out what’s left of my hair over it. If you’re a regular reader who’s lost count of how many times I’ve […]
Bill Frist’s religious-right friends, with whom he’ll be spending time this weekend, have quite a wish list when it comes to the federal judiciary. Evangelical Christian leaders, who have been working closely with senior Republican lawmakers to place conservative judges in the federal courts, have also been exploring ways to punish sitting jurists and even […]
As everyone has no doubt heard by now, the Senate Judiciary Committee, on party-line votes, sent the appeals court nominations of California Judge Janice Rogers Brown and Texas Judge Priscilla Owen to the Senate floor for consideration. If a nomination is going to spark the “nuclear-option” fight, it’s going to be one of these two. […]
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: * Maybe Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney should have waited until after his re-election campaign to start making presidential moves. A new poll shows only 33% of state voters believe Romney deserves a second […]
When Rep. Chris Shays (R-Conn.) announced that he’d like to see Tom DeLay resign his leadership post, he didn’t point to differences of ideology and/or scandals; he said it was important for the party. “Tom’s conduct is hurting the Republican Party, is hurting this Republican majority and it is hurting any Republican who is up […]
Sen. Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum has been stranger than usual lately. He exploited the Terri Schiavo controversy to fly to Florida for campaign fundraising, he used a Wal-Mart jet to do it, he threatened to shut down the Senate unless he got his way on Schiavo legislation, he flip-flopped on Amtrak funding, flip-flopped again […]