Its future looked bleak several months ago, but Air America’s future is looking better all the time — particularly with their favorite target for criticism getting another four years. The Wall Street Journal reported today that the liberal radio network’s expanded reach is coinciding with Bush’s second inaugural and Air America will now be heard […]
Some may see this is a little aggressive on a day that supposed to be about celebration and temporary hope for the future, but at this point, it’s hard to see what the Dems have to lose by playing a little hardball. Today, a new TV ad, titled “Ready,” will be airing during the cable […]
The public relations firm who subcontracted with Armstrong Williams to flack for Bush’s education policy was kind enough yesterday to announce what the rest of us already know: they screwed up. The public relations firm that arranged for pundit Armstrong Williams to promote the Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind education program admitted Wednesday that […]
The most liberal Republican in Congress, Rhode Island Sen. Lincoln Chafee, has flirted repeatedly with the idea of changing parties. He ruled out support for Bush in the campaign, he said he couldn’t think of a single area of agreement with the president, he admitted that he went to bed at night wondering how he […]
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 […]