This week, Bill Frist clearly suggested he was less concerned about “black sites,” the CIA’s secret prisons in Europe, than media reports about the facilities. This afternoon, Frist stopped suggesting and made it explicitly clear. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist says he is more concerned about the leak of information regarding secret CIA detention centers […]
The Hill reported a couple of weeks ago that Bush couldn’t count on Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum to be an enthusiastic ally anymore, as the struggling Pennsylvania senator realized that standing by an unpopular president isn’t exactly a recipe for success. As it turns out, we’re seeing the effects of Santorum’s concerns more clearly […]
The president may be the only president of an industrialized country to reject the seriousness of global warming — Bush isn’t convinced it’s real and allows his White House to edit out references to global warming from government reports — but his constituents, fortunately, believe otherwise. Most Americans believe global warming exists and a majority […]
On Tuesday, voters in Dover, Pa. made it clear that the activists who forced intelligent-design creationism into a science class curriculum had made a mistake. Local residents voted all of school board members who backed intelligent design out of office, replacing them with a slate of candidates who backed real science. TV preacher Pat Robertson, […]
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: * Now that Gov.-elect Jon Corzine (D) is leaving the Senate, the positioning to be his replacement is almost ridiculous. Howard Dean and Harry Reid want Corzine to appoint acting Gov. Richard Codey […]
There’s been some debate — or at a minimum, ambiguity — over whether the president fully supports Dick Cheney’s efforts to protect the CIA’s ability to torture detainees. This week, a State Department official described Cheney’s camp as a “shrinking island,” with key administration officials, including Condoleezza Rice and John Negroponte, opposing Cheney’s position. Even […]
So much for the Republican leadership’s clever ideas. To briefly recap, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and House Speaker Dennis Hastert announced Tuesday that they wanted a formal congressional investigation into the leak to the Washington Post about “black sites,” the CIA’s secret prisons in Europe. The idea, apparently, was to put Dems on the […]
What do you know, Bush’s national support can get worse. The latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, released Wednesday night, finds that all five of Bush’s job approval ratings — on overall job performance, the economy, foreign policy, terrorism and Iraq — are at all-time lows in the survey. In addition, the CIA leak scandal […]
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, is helping to lead a House investigation into what happened before and after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. As part of his work, he’s asked the White House and a few cabinet agencies to provide materials so that lawmakers can better understand the […]
The connections between disgraced GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the Bush White House were, not too long ago, relatively weak. Abramoff had established far more meaningful ties to congressional Republicans, most notably Tom DeLay, but the Bush gang could take some solace in the fact that the administration had not been caught up in Abramoff’s […]