If you missed it, [tag]Richard Viguerie[/tag]’s op-ed over the weekend was as thorough a take-down as I’ve seen to explain why the conservative base is fed up with their Republican Party. If nothing else, it offers a fairly comprehensive list of grievances — No Child Left Behind Act, Medicare Plan D, huge spending increases, McCain-Feingold, […]
As you probably heard, Sen. [tag]John McCain[/tag] delivered the commencement address at [tag]New School[/tag]’s graduation ceremony in NYC over the weekend. He was not well received. And while the audience made its displeasure with McCain clear, the key moment during the event was when undergraduate keynote speaker [tag]Jean Sara Rohe[/tag], who decide to forgo her […]
Apparently, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas keeps up with political news. Just how bad are things for President Bush? Pretty bad, I’d say, if even [tag]Clarence Thomas[/tag] is worried about him. The other night at a Washington book party for the President’s [tag]sister[/tag], [tag]Doro[/tag] [tag]Bush[/tag] [tag]Koch[/tag], the Supreme Court justice arrived with his wife, Ginny, […]
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: * Over the weekend, New Orleans voters narrowly re-elected Mayor [tag]Ray Nagin[/tag] (D) over Lt. Gov. [tag]Mitch Landrieu[/tag] (D), 52% to 48%. The victory gives Nagin another four years to oversee one of […]
Since USA Today broke word about a massive [tag]NSA[/tag] [tag]database[/tag] that catalogs most of the nation’s [tag]domestic[/tag] [tag]phone calls[/tag], one of the principal defenses for the program is that officials aren’t [tag]listen[/tag]ing to Americans’ conversations, just tracking who calls whom. The administration could [tag]eavesdrop[/tag], the [tag]Bush[/tag] gang argues, but it’s decided that it won’t. Today, […]
In light of Sen. [tag]Joe Lieberman[/tag]’s poor showing at the hands of his fellow Connecticut Dems Friday night, the NYT’s [tag]Paul Krugman[/tag] raised a point today that’s bothered me for a while: the discontent over [tag]Lieberman[/tag] extends well beyond the [tag]war[/tag] in [tag]Iraq[/tag]. What happened to Mr. Lieberman? Some news reports may lead you to […]
If the reports are accurate, I have no qualms about throwing Rep. [tag]William Jefferson[/tag] under the bus. Rep. William J. Jefferson (D-La.), the target of a 14-month public [tag]corruption[/tag] probe, was videotaped accepting $100,000 in $100 bills from a Northern Virginia investor who was wearing an FBI wire, according to a search warrant affidavit released […]
I admit that I didn’t follow the “controversy” surrounding the [tag]Dixie Chicks[/tag] very closely in 2003, but I can’t help but enjoy seeing how the country group isn’t backing down now. Now that [[tag]Natalie Maines[/tag] is] truly notorious, having told a London audience in 2003, on the eve of the Iraq war, “Just so you […]
Just to update an item from last Monday, [tag]TruthOut[/tag]’s [tag]Jason Leopold[/tag] reported nine days ago that [tag]Karl Rove[/tag] has, in fact, been [tag]indicted[/tag] as part of the [tag]Plame[/tag] investigation, and was given 24 hours to prepare. It’s been a week and nothing’s happened. Over the weekend, TruthOut published a “partial [tag]apology[/tag]” from its executive director, […]
Over the last week or so, three leading Democratic writers — Peter Beinart, Mark Schmitt, and Paul Waldman — have looked at the party’s relationship with someone they not-quite-fondly refer to as “Nascar Man.” As Beinart described it, Dems’ efforts to impress Nascar man are foolish, and worse, a distraction from substantive debates that the […]