The president spoke at the National Republican Congressional Committee Dinner in DC last night and tried out a new line about his party’s vision: “We don’t fear the future.” “We don’t fear the future,” Bush told donors who contributed $8 million Thursday night to support Republican House candidates. “We welcome it.” Bush repeated a version […]
On Wednesday, the New York Times ran an editorial noting former White House aide Claude Allen’s arrest, and said, given what we’ve seen over the last several years, “If the current Congress had been called on to intervene in the case of Mr. Allen, it would probably have tried to legalize shoplifting.” It was a […]
Clear Channel Communications doesn’t put any real effort in hiding its ideological bias. It’s a Republican company, run by Republican executives, which contributes mostly to Republican campaigns. What’s more, it also uses its ownership of a huge national billboard company, called Clear Channel Outdoor, to advance partisan ends. It’s hard to forget examples like this […]
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: * Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), a Tom DeLay protege, may seem like a safe GOP seat, but Barton’s support has been slipping over the last several campaign cycles, even as Republican support in […]
I appreciate that Dems want to focus their criticisms of the GOP in an election year on the issues that resonate and connect most with voters. Right now, the Republicans have created a “target-rich environment” for political and policy criticisms, and sometimes, Dems just don’t know which new controversies to tackle aggressively. I might recommend, […]
It wasn’t quite a week ago when some of the leading Republicans in Congress, many of whom plan to run for president, emphasized how much they abhor all the federal spending that has increased since 2001. Sure, it’s been a Republican Congress working with a Republican President, but they didn’t want to be bothered with […]
The good news is that White House that leaks classified information like a sieve is anxious to limit clearance for handling classified materials. The bad news is, the Bush gang is limiting their concerns to gay people. The Bush administration last year rewrote the rules for allowing gay men and lesbians to receive national-security clearances, […]
Yesterday, as blog readers everywhere now know, the American Research Group released the results of a national poll gauging support for congressional censure of the president, and possibly, impeachment. Surprisingly, support for both is quite strong, with a plurality favoring the censure resolution currently pending in the Senate. My friend Swan emailed a good question: […]
After the United Arab Emirates’ Dubai Ports World was slated to own and operate six major U.S. ports, most of Congress, including nearly all Republicans, balked. It wasn’t about Arabs, they said, it was about a critical element about infrastructure that could be a weakness in the war on terror. Port security, they said, is […]
When Republicans began criticizing Sen. Russ Feingold’s censure resolution, one of their principal talking points was the notion that a formal rebuke for Bush over wireless searches was, well, nuts. Common descriptions included words like “extreme” and “over the top.” There’s a certain spectrum of sensible political ideas — and this wasn’t in it. Of […]