Today’s edition of quick hits. * When a very large “shredding services” truck shows up at the Vice President’s house, I get a little nervous. * Rep. Jim Gibbons (R-Nev.) — you know, the guy who allegedly accosted a cocktail waitress in a Las Vegas parking lot — is now officially under a criminal investigation. […]
I haven’t seen the full context, but according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Sen. John [tag]Kerry[/tag] (D-Mass.) was delivering a well-received speech to students at Pasadena City College in California on Monday when he slipped up. Kerry was joking with the audience, delivering a lot of one-liners and jabs at Bush, when he said, […]
It’s no secret that Air America has experienced financial troubles, in part because of insufficient advertising revenue. It is possible, however, that the game was fixed against them for ideological reasons? An internal ABC Radio Networks memo obtained by Media Matters for America, originally from a listener to The Peter B. Collins Show, indicates that […]
Jim Webb (D) has the momentum in the polls, the “naughty novel” strategy isn’t working, and Sen. George Allen (R) is struggling to get on track. This won’t help. A first-year University of Virginia law student shouted a question at U.S. Sen. George Allen Tuesday at the conclusion of a rally at the Omni Charlottesville […]
Some White House whoppers are so spectacular, so jaw-dropping, so breathtaking, that it’s genuinely hard to believe. For example, today, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow told reporters that “contrary to stereotype,” President Bush has been “actively engaged in trying to fight climate change.” (It’s true, TP has the video.) When a reporter noted that […]
There are different schools of thought on how best to respond to dishonest and sleazy White House rhetoric. House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member (and would-be chairman) Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), confronted with Dick Cheney’s latest nonsense, took a rather confrontational approach. This isn’t exactly elementary school, but for what it’s worth, Cheney started it. […]
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: * It looks like we can just about stick a fork in Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.); he’s done. The latest Temple/Inquirer poll shows Bob Casey (D) leading the incumbent, 54% to 38%. A […]
We’ve known for a long while that [tag]abstinence[/tag]-only policies, promoted and funded through the Bush administration towards America’s teens, are costly, inaccurate, and ineffective. So, given the Bush gang’s record, it should come as no surprise that these same policies are now being directed towards adults. Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to […]
Josh Marshall noted this morning with the election just seven days away, the GOP’s “desperation will be ferocious. Imagine everything from the last six years rolled into one toxic week. An electoral gauntlet of hacking knives and fire.” And it starts, of course, with the president’s overheated rhetoric. We seem to be building towards some […]
When Chris Matthews recently described the national media as John McCain’s “base,” he really wasn’t kidding. In her latest column, posted online on October 29 and that will appear in the November 6 edition of U.S. News & World Report, U.S. News contributing editor and CBS News national political correspondent Gloria Borger asserted that “[n]o […]