In case you missed it over the weekend, the Bush administration’s Nixonian passion for penalizing their enemies has reached almost-comedic levels. The Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meets three times a year in various cities across the Americas to discuss such dry but important issues as telecommunications standards and spectrum regulations. But for this week’s meeting in […]
Bill Frist, as scheduled, shared his thoughts on the federal judiciary during yesterday’s controversial “Justice Sunday” rally. But Frist seemed to take inordinate joy in reminding anyone who would listen that his remarks were less-than radical. Without mentioning DeLay, Frist, a Tennessee Republican, said, “Our judiciary must be independent, impartial and fair. When we think […]
There are any number of amusing angles to the latest Tom DeLay revelations, but the scandal-ridden Majority Leader’s response to the whole mess was my personal favorite. It’s a keeper. The airfare to London and Scotland in 2000 for then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) was charged to an American Express card issued to Jack […]
Two weeks ago, I noted the way in which Republicans, who had come up with the “nuclear option” phrase in 2003, had bamboozled the media into changing its reporting and use of language. Despite having created and used the phrase repeatedly, the GOP decided (thanks to polling data) that, forever more, it was the “constitutional […]