With two-and-a-half weeks to go in the closely-watched Dem Senate primary in Connecticut, Sen. Joe Lieberman isn’t consolidating party support; he’s losing it. A [tag]Quinnipiac[/tag] University [tag]poll[/tag] released Thursday has Democratic challenger Ned [tag]Lamont[/tag] leading the U.S. Senate race over incumbent Joe [tag]Lieberman[/tag]. The poll shows Lamont ahead 51-47 percent among likely voters in the […]
As expected, Bush vetoed the bi-partisan stem-cell research bill that passed both houses of Congress and enjoys broad national support. It was the first veto of his presidency, and he was apparently a little embarrassed about it. Bush addressed a friendly audience in the East Room this afternoon after vetoing the bill, and instead of […]
As part of the truly absurd “[tag]American Values Agenda[/tag]” Republicans are pushing to make their base happy, the House is debating a uniquely pernicious proposal called the “[tag]Pledge Protection Act[/tag].” Here’s the idea: some people believe Congress violated the separation of church and state when it changed the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954, adding the […]
Dems in Connecticut are divided between [tag]Ned Lamont[/tag] and [tag]Joe Lieberman[/tag], but it’s also worth noting that [tag]Republican[/tag]s are struggling badly in the same race — and may be open to “creative” alternatives. In the latest bizarre twist in an already odd race, the lone Republican candidate, Alan Schlesinger, is now facing pressure from his […]
I think there’s something wrong with this new Gallup poll. A new [tag]Gallup[/tag] [tag]poll[/tag] asking Americans theirs views of 25 leading candidates for president in 2008 found that one of the Republican frontrunners, Sen. [tag]John McCain[/tag], is judged “[tag]unacceptable[/tag]” by 41% of those in his own party. A bare majority, 55%, find him “[tag]acceptable[/tag].” In […]
Milestones and turning points come and go in Iraq, but conditions keep deteriorating. An average of more than 100 civilians per day were killed in Iraq last month, the United Nations reported Tuesday, registering what appears to be the highest official monthly tally of violent deaths since the fall of Baghdad. The death toll, drawn […]
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: * In Georgia, the big news was [tag]Ralph Reed[/tag]’s defeat, but there were other key primary races decided yesterday. In the Dems’ gubernatorial primary, Lt. Gov. [tag]Mark Taylor[/tag] (D) defeated Georgia Secretary of […]
In 2001, when the [tag]White House[/tag] decided it would work with congressional Dems on No Child Left Behind legislation, Dems made one thing perfectly clear: no [tag]vouchers[/tag]. Plenty of ideas were on the table, but there was simply no way Dems would support a national plan that used public funds to subsidize tuition at religious […]
For a slow-moving bureaucracy, [tag]Republicans[/tag] in Washington sure can move quickly when they want to. The Republican leadership is aware of the conflict between the short and long-term interests of the party and is doing what it can to diminish the cost. On [tag]stem cells[/tag], for example, the tactic is to get the battle over […]
Yesterday, Attorney General [tag]Alberto Gonzales[/tag] acknowledged for the first time that the [tag]president[/tag] personally blocked [tag]Justice Department[/tag] lawyers from pursuing an internal probe of the White House’s [tag]warrantless[/tag]-[tag]search[/tag] program. As it turns out, this is a story that may have some legs. Bush’s decision represents an unusually direct and unprecedented White House intervention into an […]