Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings I’m sorry to be the one to bring you the bad news, if you haven’t heard it already, but Rick Santorum won’t — repeat: won’t — be running for president in ’08. “Absolutely, positively not,” he said. “Absolutely not.” I feel for Dan Savage. However much we dislike him, […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Think Progress is reporting (quoting Bulletin News) that Rove may soon leave the White House: The rumors that chief White House political architect Karl Rove will leave sometime next year are being bolstered with new insider reports that his partisan style is a hurdle to President Bush’s new push […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Sen. James Inhofe — thankfully the outgoing chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — on FOX & Friends this morning: Now look, God’s still up there. We still have these natural changes, and this is what’s going on right now. New science comes out… If the […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Alright, I’ve been a bit tough on Pelosi lately — first on Murtha-Hoyer, then on Harman. I trust I haven’t gone so far as to imply that I think she’s “a bitchy, vindictive shrew incapable of leading because she’s consumed by petty personal bickering rather than serious and substantive […]
Guest Post by Anonymous Liberal I realize the media likes nothing better than covering Democratic in-fighting (hence all the breathless op-eds and news articles this morning discussing the “fiasco” that is the Democratic leadership race), but maybe, just maybe, we should now devote some attention to the fact that, despite being resoundingly rebuked by voters, […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings The high-profile Hoyer-Murtha contest for House majority leader, now in its what-does-it-all-mean aftermath, has obscured another of Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to put her own people in place. That effort concerns the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee, a key position as Democrats look to position themselves as the […]
Guest Post by John Cole The Drudge Report is flashing this headline from Breitbart: “Bush draws Vietnam lesson for Iraq: don’t quit” That isn’t the only thing Bush has learned from Viet Nam. As a life-long Republican, I can tell you that there is a not-insignificant portion of the GOP that is still convinced that […]
Guest Post by John Cole While I, like others, was initally confused why Nancy Pelosi chose to support Murtha, I have to admit that I am more than a little amused at the overblown reaction to the Democratic leadership race in the blogosphere and the ‘liberal media’: Years ago I spent Election Day in San […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings There’s some promising news coming out of Khartoum, according to the BBC: Sudan has agreed in principle to allow a joint United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force into Darfur, UN chief Kofi Annan has said. Khartoum has previously refused a UN presence in Darfur. The plan envisages strengthening […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Grover Norquist on Don Sherwood, the Pennsylvania Republican who lost his House seat to Chris Carney and whose mistress accused him of choking her: “Bob [sic] Sherwood’s seat would have been overwhelmingly ours, if his mistress hadn’t whined about being throttled.” (via Pandagon) Glenn Beck to Keith Ellison (D-MN), […]