Like most blogs, The Carpetbagger Report will be honoring Thanksgiving today, and posting will be somewhere between minimal and nonexistent. (I’ll be around, and might add an item if something earth shattering happens, otherwise, not so much.) Tomorrow should be pretty slow, but I might have a few posts. As for the weekend, Morbo will […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Stunning Reuters story: “Iraqi deaths hit a new high in October and 100,000 people are fleeing abroad every month to escape worsening violence that is segregating the country on sectarian lines, a U.N. report said on Wednesday. Painting a grim picture of a population caught in the cross-fire between […]
John McCain is on record, just in the last few weeks, as saying gay marriage should be both allowed and prohibited. It’s early for the 2008 fists to start flying, but if you want a hint of what’s to come, Mitt Romney is showing the way. …In an interview with Bill Sammon in today’s Washington […]
House Speaker-to-be Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has taken quite a bit of heat lately, some of it justified, most of it not. But assuming the media can tear itself away from reporting on the future Speaker’s wardrobe, it’s worth noting that Pelosi has the House well prepared to hit the ground running in January (via Kevin […]
The Senate Employment Bulletin is routinely used by Senate offices to announce job openings, but most of the time, staffers are vague about which senator it is. You’ll frequently see descriptions such as “Midwestern Republicans seeks…” or “Southern centrist Democrat is looking for…” Here’s an actual listing from this week’s Bulletin. See if you can […]
I’ve long been amazed at the consistency which Republicans will refer to the “Democrat Party.” It’s not a new phenomenon — in fact, it dates back about six decades — but it seems that the GOP has used it the last few years with increased frequency. And glee. Part of this is strategic; Republicans don’t […]
For the last couple of weeks, as Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has been more forceful in his demands for tens of thousands of additional troops in Iraq, his messages have started to conflict a bit. Over the weekend, for example, McCain acknowledged that if his own plan was implemented, “it would be terrible.” He added […]
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: * The race is over in New Mexico’s 1st congressional district and Rep. Heather A. Wilson (R) hung on to beat state Attorney General Patricia Madrid (D) by just 875 votes. Madrid conceded […]
It was almost as if the Bush administration was trying to find the most offensive choice possible to be the new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services. The Bush gang found Dr. Eric Keroack, who’ll oversee HHS’s $283 million reproductive-health program, a $30 million program that encourages abstinence among […]
During any election season, responsible voters have a tough job — they have to weigh the information they receive from often-misleading campaign commercials with what they learn from often-incomplete media coverage. Of course, that’d be a lot easier if one wasn’t getting a lot more airtime than the other (.pdf). In the month leading up […]