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. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) may generate excitement with the GOP base following her role in “fixing” Florida’s presidential vote count in 2000, but top Republican leaders are not exactly happy about her […]
I was more than willing to let the Terri Schiavo controversy fade away. We can look back and realize that Congress was wrong to intervene, Bill Frist was wrong to falsely diagnose a patient he’d never seen, and conservatives in general were wrong to slander Michael Schiavo by falsely accusing him of abusing and trying […]
If the Bush gang asks a former lobbyist for the American Petroleum Institute to re-write a government report on global warming, editing out scientific conclusions he doesn’t like, it stands to reason that the same Bush gang will take similar measures to re-write similar documents on the same issue. Bush administration officials working behind the […]
The far-right crusade against the federal judiciary took a bizarre turn this week when Rep. John Hostettler (R-Ind.) successfully added an amendment to a Justice Department appropriations bill. Even by the standards of today’s GOP, this one’s nutty. Hostettler has been concerned about a court case in his community called Russelburg v. Gibson County, which […]
Earlier this year, in one of the more offensive examples of conservatism lacking compassion, the Bush/Ashcroft Justice Department sought to hide information about emergency contraception for rape victims. The Justice Department has issued its first-ever medical guidelines for treating sexual-assault victims — without mention of emergency contraception, the standard precaution against pregnancy after rape. Omission […]
National Journal’s Charlie Cook wrote a column earlier this week on the floors of the president’s popularity. He argued, persuasively, that so long as Bush’s support among Republicans dropped no lower than 85%, which is where it’s been for nearly a year, the president’s approval rating will not fall below 40% overall, as each of […]
When Scott McClellan can’t defend Dick Cheney’s comments, you know the Bush gang is having trouble. Earlier this week, Cheney told CNN’s Larry King that the insurgency in Iraq is “in the last throes,” and insisted that violence in the country “will clearly decline.” It’s prompted some to suggest that the vice president is, unfortunately, […]
Last week at this time, I noted that the Bush White House was so encircled in scandal, we could look at just one week — in fact, not even a whole week — and see why the current president is causing his own “scandal fatigue.” Maybe I was lucky, some of you thought. It was […]
There has been a flurry of news this week about Republican lawmakers who, despite backing Bush going into the war in Iraq, are now anxious to see the president’s exit strategy. It seems to be causing something of a strain in the GOP ranks. As bad news continues to emerge from Iraq and the U.S. […]
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: * Dems hoping for another morale booster got one yesterday when the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced it had new polling showing seven incumbent Republican House members who would be easily defeated if […]