Bush brought back Karen Hughes to Washington to boost America’s image in the Middle East, but when she’s done there, maybe she could turn her attention towards some p.r. with countries that are supposed to like us. (Thanks to Phil for the tip) Most Australians consider U.S. foreign policy to be as threatening as Islamic […]
When Senate Republicans first came up with the idea of barring judicial filibusters by a simple majority vote, they, not Dems, labeled it the “nuclear option.” As the Washington Times reported two years ago: Republicans could immediately break the current filibusters against two of President Bush’s judicial nominees with a rarely used parliamentary procedure that […]
Last month, the National Association of Manufacturers, led by president and CEO John Engler, a longtime Bush ally, announced that it was getting into the judicial nominee game. NAM, though not an obvious choice for a fight over would-be judges, announced a multimillion-dollar campaign on behalf of Republican efforts to stack the courts and, possibly, […]
Sen. Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum, at least at first, was prepared to take a bold stand against Bush’s plan to gut funding for Amtrak. In late February, Santorum appeared on Meet the Press and said the White House budget for the system was “not acceptable to me” and predicted it would not pass. True […]
My new daily feature about campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Bush’s home-town mayor, Crawford’s Robert Campbell, will not seek re-election, an announcement that comes just six months after the mayor publicly endorsed John Kerry’s presidential campaign. Campbell says his departure […]
Just to follow up on the earlier post about the cracks in Tom DeLay’s once-solid façade, consider this admonishment in a major newspaper editorial today: The problem…is that Mr. DeLay, who rode to power in 1994 on a wave of revulsion at the everyday ways of big government, has become the living exemplar of some […]
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist didn’t hesitate to offer his “professional” medical opinion about Terri Schiavo — despite the fact that she has never been his patient and he’s never even been in the same room as her. But as long as Dr. Frist is diagnosing people without having seen them, some shrewd critics have […]
Questions about pharmacists’ inability to dispense medications they don’t like have been around for a couple of years, but this front-page treatment in the Washington Post should kick things up again. Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal […]
Shailagh Murray and Mike Allen had a good piece over the weekend about the effect the Schiavo controversy was having on Tom DeLay, but one quote seemed particularly noteworthy. The article noted two primary elements that should concern the House Majority Leader. One is the problem of DeLay thrusting himself into the national spotlight — […]
Rumor has it that Jeb Bush was always the responsible sibling, while George W. Bush was unreliable and undisciplined one. It’s funny how sometimes the reckless brother can be a bad influence on the mature one. At the same time one of Florida’s most visible television reporters brought the news to viewers around the state, […]