With time running out and the race too close to call, Virginia Sen. George Allen (R) seemed to believe that he had found the knock-out punch: challenger Jim Webb (D) wrote a novel with some racy scenes 20 years ago, and highlighting them would turn voters away from the strong upstart candidate. How’s that working […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Watch The Decider become The Delegator. It’s nearly four years and the president never thought about applying the code of military conduct to hired guns? Please, watch the clip. * The reaction to “heated” the Wolf Blitzer/Lynne Cheney interview from the weekend continues to reverberate a bit. Blitzer gave […]
At first blush, this might sound predictable and inconsequential, but it deserves some close scrutiny. United States Senator Joseph I. Lieberman won the backing of a top Republican in the Senate on Friday [Oct. 20] as Howard Dean traveled here to rally Democrats behind Ned Lamont’s effort to unseat Mr. Lieberman. […] Mr. Lieberman appeared […]
About a week ago, I mentioned that Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) compared Democrats to Nazi appeasers and suggested the only thing standing between the United States and some kind of terrorist-based fascism is his re-election. Not quite content with embarrassing himself last week, Santorum decided to push the envelope just a little further over the […]
White House officials have spent an inordinate amount of time lately trying to convince American voters that they know which party the terrorists like more, and the electorate should back candidates who’d make the terrorists unhappy. To do otherwise would be to “appease” the enemy. With this in mind, Ari Melber asks a pertinent question […]
Bush’s political appointees? Overriding scientists for political purposes? You don’t say. A senior Bush political appointee at the Interior Department has rejected staff scientists’ recommendations to protect imperiled animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act at least six times in the past three years, documents show. In addition, staff complaints that their scientific findings […]
A growing number of Republican office-holders and candidates have come to the conclusion that most of us realized a long time ago: it’s time for Donald Rumsfeld to go. Indeed, it’s getting tough to find anyone outside the White House who’s willing to defend what it obviously a disastrous tenure at the Pentagon. Then again, […]
For years, conservative rhetoric has focused on what they call “Bush [tag]hatred[/tag].” Far-right blogs routinely talk about “Bush derangement syndrome,” which, as they see it, is when routine political enmity becomes all-encompassing rage. Ken Mehlman, in particular, seems to revel in the notion of an “angry left.” I’ve never found this meme particularly compelling, but […]
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 Missouri’s incredibly important Senate race, the latest Research 2000 poll conducted for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and KMOV found that Sen. Jim Talent (R) and state Auditor Claire McCaskill (D) are […]
For the Republican establishment, the 2006 elections are about Iraq. Wait, scratch that, the war is a fiasco of historic proportions. The elections are actually about national security. No, that’s not right either; the war is making the terrorist threat worse and the GOP has a lousy record on domestic security. The 2006 elections are […]