You may have seen this elsewhere, but it’s just too hilarious not to mention. For President Bush, Social Security reform tops a busy second-term agenda, but yesterday’s stop on his campaign-style reform push brought little more than a collective ho-hum from Granite Staters. White House aides collected empty chairs in an echoing Pease International Tradeport […]
To hear congressional Republicans tell it, Americans are practically desperate to see congressional Dems line up behind the GOP agenda. “Obstructionism,” they say, will cost Dems dearly. They continue to be wrong. A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll (.pdf) shows, once again, that the public wants Dems to stand up to Bush, even if that […]
It seems to me that Maureen Dowd’s column in yesterday’s New York Times offered one of the more intriguing angles of the James Guckert story in a while. In it, Dowd explained how odd it is that Guckert could get into the White House — while she couldn’t. I was rejected for a White House […]
I was planning to try BWS (blogging while sick), but it’s just not going to work out today. Sorry. Check back tomorrow for plenty of long-winded tirades for your reading pleasure.
Howard Dean, to his credit, has made party outreach to faith communities a priority for the DNC. The day before he was elected chair of the Democratic National Committee last week, Dean went to the leaders of different Democratic constituencies outlining an approach that will emphasize outreach to evangelicals and people of other faiths. His […]
Amy Sullivan wrote one of the more important articles of the post-election season for the January/February issue of the Washington Monthly on the Dems’ chronic and systemic problem with party consultants. Since their devastating loss last fall, Democrats have cast about for reasons why their party has come up short three election cycles in a […]
Considering that the ultra-conservative Washington Times is a conservative propaganda machine owned by a crazed Korean cult leader, I had assumed that there was very little this “newspaper” could do to surprise me. I stand corrected. Marian Kester Coombs is a woman who believes America has become a “den of iniquity” thanks to “its efforts […]
Last week, we learned that Georgia Republicans, following in Texas’ twisted example, are considering a re-redistricting scheme for the state’s congressional lines, now that the GOP enjoys statewide majorities in Atlanta. This week, we know a little more. The bad news is, Georgia Republicans have decided to pursue the ridiculous plan. The good news is, […]
There is ample social science research available that points to an increased risk of suicide in the gay community, so when the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), part of Bush’s HHS, planned a session on the issue during a conference on suicide, it hardly seemed controversial. That is, until other Bush administration […]
There’s word today that Republicans in Congress are ready to hit key states to try and rally support for Bush’s Social Security scheme. Republican leaders urged Senators in a private meeting Tuesday to rally around President Bush’s plan to overhaul Social Security, as they began quietly making plans to hold a March rally in a […]