Every time a new poll comes out showing Bush’s faltering support nationwide, I think, “OK, now he’s reached the floor of his support.” And yet, the floor manages to fall a little further all the time. A new CBS News poll suggests the bottom has completely fallen out for the president, thanks in large part […]
For all the talk that the Dems, and the left in general, has neglected attention in developing a “farm team,” with an emphasis on training and infrastructure, party leaders seem to have gotten the message loud and clear. The latest example of this comes by way of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). This January, Obama’s Hopefund […]
Just a few months ago, when Howard Dean was generating headlines for some controversial remarks, it became a real distraction for the party. Some high-profile Dems backed away from Dean, party leaders were constantly being asked what they thought of one provocative Dean comment or another, and there was even talk that Dean’s tenure as […]
When all else fails, the Bush White House still has one talking point that lets everyone know that they’ve officially run out of things to say: it’s Clinton’s fault. The White House sought to deflect politically charged questions Wednesday about President Bush’s use of prewar intelligence in Iraq, saying Democrats, too, had concluded Saddam Hussein […]
The Republican strategy in response to Dems’ opposition of Samuel Alito, in addition to the possibility of the nuclear option, is to throw the “obstructionist” label around. The catch, however, is that in order for this to be effective, the public would have to oppose the Dems’ efforts. There’s no reason to believe that’s the […]
This front-page WaPo expose is a fine piece of journalism, if for no other reason,that the CIA’s secret facilities have been the subject of so little scrutiny. The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials […]
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: * Tom DeLay won an early round in his defense against money-laundering and conspiracy charges yesterday when Bob Perkins, a 30-year veteran of the state bench, was forced to recuse himself from the […]
In 1992, Colorado voters approved known as the Taxpayers Bill of Rights (TABOR). The measure added provisions to the state constitution that made it difficult to raise taxes under any circumstances and strictly limited state government’s ability to increase spending beyond the rate of inflation. If Colorado ran a surplus, it had to automatically take […]
Justice Sunday I offered some vaguely pro-theocracy conservatives the chance to rail against judicial filibusters. Justice Sunday II, not quite as interesting as the original, gave Tom DeLay a chance to explain how federal courts are imposing a “judicial supremacy” over the country, while James Dobson described the way in which the Supreme Court has […]
Jay Sekulow is not just another conservative lawyer. As the man who runs the American Center for Law and Justice, a religious right legal group started by TV preacher Pat Robertson, Sekulow has positioned himself as one of the most politically-connected lawyers in the conservative movement. Indeed, Sekulow has become such an insider that he’s […]