It was a year ago this week when Howard Dean, going into a key race as the obvious frontrunner, saw his support plummet and campaign implode. With this in mind, I certainly won’t be bold as to say Dean is a shoe-in for DNC chair — but he’s certainly getting closer to nailing down the […]
Considering my recent rant about reporters’ inability to acknowledge Bush’s deceptions over Social Security, I thought it only fair to give credit where credit is due. Time magazine’s Karen Tumulty and Eric Roston in a straight-up news story — not an editorial, column, or “news analysis” piece — managed to tell readers the truth about […]
The purpose of “wedge” politics, which Dems are not good at (and have never really tried), is finding those issues on the periphery in which opponents of a given issue start to bring supporters to the other side. On an issue like abortion, parental notification and late-term abortions are classic wedges — most Americans are […]
I can understand, to a certain extent, why today’s House Republicans have turned their collective backs on some of the reforms mandated by the Contract with America. Ideas such as term limits and a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution look pretty ridiculous in hindsight, so it’s tough to criticize the GOP for abandoning the ideas […]
Yesterday, Noam Scheiber made a compelling argument that Dem opposition to Bush’s Social Security scheme should include plenty of arguments based on fact and reason, but also some demagoguery. In light of a new report explaining how Bush is manipulating the Social Security Administration’s employees to parrot deceptive talking points, Scheiber argued Dems will need […]
There’s been sporadic talk that Bush’s second term will be far more accommodating to our international allies than his first, with the president making a more concerted effort to reach out to those who pushed away. Even this morning, Condoleezza Rice pledged to work to mend and strengthen ties with allies frayed by the war […]
In the overwhelming majority of instances, sitting governors enjoy enough party support to stave off a primary challenge. In Alabama, however, a certain fundamentalist theocrat already appears poised to seize the GOP nomination away. A new poll shows Roy Moore with a lead over Gov. Bob Riley in the race for the 2006 Republican gubernatorial […]
As if we needed another reason to question the reliability of touch-screen balloting, Cursor noted yesterday that a new analysis of the systems offers more proof of flawed results. Florida’s touch-screen voting machines performed better in the Nov. 2 presidential election than they did in the March primary, but were still outmatched by older voting […]
I’m trying to be vaguely sympathetic to former Rep. Tim Roemer (D-Ind.) as he continues to struggle in the race for the DNC chairmanship, but he’s not making it easy. Roemer’s policy positions put him squarely to the right of most of the party. He insists that doesn’t matter for the DNC post, and to […]
At least Bush is consistent. At a White House press briefing, March 13, 2002: “As I say, we haven’t heard much from [bin Laden]. And I wouldn’t necessarily say he’s at the center of any command structure. And, again, I don’t know where he is. I — I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am […]