By now, everyone following the midterm elections has noticed the gameplan: Dems want to nationalize the campaign cycle, Republicans want to localize it. To that end, Bob Novak writes today, Bush has been screwing things up for the GOP. At Sellersburg in southern Indiana on Oct. 28, George W. Bush began 10 days of nonstop […]
Apparently, the day before the election, there’s someone who doesn’t want you to read The Carpetbagger Report, so he or she decided to attack the database. Everything appears to be back on track, at least for now. Obviously, I regret the inconvenience (and the spectacularly bad timing of the inconvenience).
When an Iraqi court convicted [tag]Saddam Hussein[/tag] yesterday of crimes against humanity and sentenced him to death, the ruling was a little short on details. In fact, there was no formal explanation/reasoning at all, only a [tag]verdict[/tag] and a [tag]sentence[/tag]. Josh Marshall, noting an NBC report, explains why. The full verdict, a document of several […]
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 the final statewide poll before voters head to the polls in Connecticut, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I) appears to be poised to win another term. A new Quinnipiac poll shows the incumbent […]
DCCC Chairman Rahm Emanuel is keenly aware of some very recent national polls showing the Dems’ generic-ballot lead shrinking. He told the NYT, “It’s inevitable that there would be some tightening in the end.” Emanuel added, however, “This is making me nervous.” Indeed, the Pew Research Center for People and the Press released a poll […]
Alas, the story late last week about the Bush administration accidentally publishing nuclear secrets in Arabic on the Internet did not cause quite the stir that I had hoped for. Perhaps if John Kerry had told a joke about it, and left out a word, the story could have received wall-to-wall coverage on TV. That […]
The WaPo had an interesting item over the weekend noting Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s busy schedule of late. That makes sense — there’s a war in Iraq, the North Korean crisis is simmering to a boil, there’s a major transition underway at the United Nations, and there are ample challenges that require the attention […]
There’s a line in the movie “Serenity” in which Jayne Cobb, who’s something of a mercenary, explains a bit about his philosophy on shooting people. “Hell, I’ll kill a man in a fair fight,” Jayne said, “or if I think he’s gonna start a fair fight.” We’d all like to think that there’s some nobility […]
The verdict and sentence in Saddam Hussein’s trial in Iraq were not at all surprising, and it’s hard to imagine any serious person lamenting the outcome. Brutal dictator, vicious thug, shameless war criminal … there can be no doubt that Saddam has earned his fate. Some of the media coverage today, however, seems to overlook […]
When we last left evangelical leader Ted Haggard, he was admitting to have bought (but not used) methamphetamines, but continued to deny having an affair with a gay prostitute. There was, shall we say, some lingering doubts about Haggard’s evolving defense. Late yesterday afternoon, Haggard’s New Life Church, after an oversight investigation conducted by four […]