In light of some Senate GOP resistance to the Bush administration’s special military trials of suspected terrorists, Josh Marshall raises a point that I’ve been thinking about for a while. Congressional Republicans could have just gone along with an unreasonable White House policy on military trials and forced Dems to oppose it, creating an opening […]
Veteran Texas journalists Wayne Slater and James Moore raised a lot of eyebrows with their bestselling book about Karl Rove, Bush’s Brain, a couple of years ago. And from the sound of it, their next book should be just as interesting. It’s called The Architect: Karl Rove and the Master Plan for Absolute Power. Some […]
There have been a few twists and turns in the Plame scandal of late, but it seems every new revelation prompts the president’s supporters to once again try and dismiss the significance of the controversy. Last week, Bush allies insisted that news of former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage was one of Robert Novak’s […]
Sorry to keep harping on this issue, but the more we learn about [tag]ABC[/tag]’s “[tag]The Path to 9/11[/tag],” the bigger a problem it is. For example, this morning we learned that former President [tag]Clinton[/tag]’s office requested a copy of the docudrama. ABC said no. Former Secretary of State Madeleine [tag]Albright[/tag] and former National Security Adviser […]
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: * After all the turmoil, Rep. [tag]Katherine Harris[/tag] (R) still managed to win her Senate primary race in Florida yesterday, beating her largely unknown GOP rivals with 49% support. She’ll now face incumbent […]
The Senate Majority Project noted that congressional Republicans seem to have settled on a new rhetoric theme of late: they want to “rise above” petty politics. “It’s election time, and the tendency is to make everything political. For the American people, we need to rise above this. We need to come together, we need to […]
In July, a very depressing Harris poll found that half of the country — literally 50% — believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when the United States invaded the country in 2003, despite reality. What’s more, that number has increased from 36% in a Harris poll last year. Unfortunately, it’s not the only […]
I’m pleasantly surprised to see this story starting to generate some real attention. Days before its scheduled debut, the first major television miniseries about the Sept. 11 attacks was being criticized on Tuesday as biased and inaccurate by bloggers, terrorism experts and a member of the Sept. 11 commission, whose report makes up much of […]
I’m beginning to think White House Press Secretary [tag]Tony Snow[/tag] hasn’t heard the phrase, “Never let ’em see you sweat.” With Labor Day behind us, and a challenging campaign season ahead, the pressure is on — and Snow is starting to wilt. For example, Snow appeared on CNN yesterday afternoon to defend the White House […]
As part of the administration’s third “major public relations offensive” on Iraq, the president delivered yet another speech and the White House released yet another report. This time, however, Dems decided to try and share the headlines. The fall campaign season opened today with President Bush and Democrats each trying to seize the high ground […]