Over the last week or so, three leading Democratic writers — Peter Beinart, Mark Schmitt, and Paul Waldman — have looked at the party’s relationship with someone they not-quite-fondly refer to as “Nascar Man.” As Beinart described it, Dems’ efforts to impress Nascar man are foolish, and worse, a distraction from substantive debates that the […]
At a minimum, I guess the liberal love affair with [tag]John McCain[/tag] is over. “I haven’t heard anyone aroused about me speaking at the New School,” John [tag]McCain[/tag] said in April, defending his decision to address Jerry [tag]Falwell[/tag]’s Liberty University. Nobody at all, except for virtually the entire crowd at the New School’s Madison Square […]
I wish the Bush gang could keep its story straight. [tag]President[/tag] George W. [tag]Bush[/tag] has long opposed making [tag]English[/tag] the country’s [tag]national language[/tag], Attorney General [tag]Alberto Gonzales[/tag] said on Friday, a day after the Senate voted to do so, but the White House said later Gonzales had got caught in a “[tag]linguistic snare[/tag].” […] Gonzales […]
The [tag]Connecticut[/tag] Democratic Party’s [tag]state convention[/tag] met last night, in part to help decide who’d qualify for the party’s primary ballot. All eyes were on [tag]Ned Lamont[/tag], who needed 15% of Connecticut delegates to be able to take on Sen. [tag]Joe Lieberman[/tag] in August. As it turned out, he did a little better than 15%. […]
Earlier this week, [tag]Karl Rove[/tag] insisted that [tag]Bush[/tag]’s [tag]likeability[/tag], his [tag]personal[/tag] [tag]approval ratings[/tag], were in the 60s in some polls. He explained that the American people “like him, they respect him, he’s somebody they feel a connection with.” [tag]Knight Ridder[/tag] — under a headline that reads, “Americans [tag]don’t like[/tag] [tag]President[/tag] Bush [tag]personally[/tag] much anymore, either” […]
First up from the God machine this week is a slightly different take on school prayer. A federal judge on Friday blocked a high school in southern Kentucky from including prayers in its graduation ceremony, prompting students to begin reciting the Lord’s Prayer during the opening remarks. About 200 students interrupted the principal’s comments with […]
Guest Post by Morbo Some students at [tag]Patrick Henry College[/tag], a far-right institution of higher education founded by home-schooling advocate [tag]Michael Farris[/tag], are learning a hard lesson: Farris is a whack job whose first priority is instilling blind allegiance to fundamentalist dogma, not creating an intellectual environment. The students’ disillusionment is shared by five professors […]
Guest Post by Morbo I have not read The DaVinci Code, and I don’t intend to see the movie. Still, I find the religious right’s reaction to the film adaptation quite interesting. Nearly every religious right outfit in the country is offering a book, DVD or pamphlet debunking the claims made in Dan Brown’s novel. […]
[tag]Helen Thomas[/tag] asked [tag]Scott McClellan[/tag] the same question for several years, but never got an answer. Today, she gave it a shot with [tag]Tony Snow[/tag]. Q: The new Italian Prime Minister says that the President’s invasion of Iraq was a grave error. As the new kid on the block, can you give me the latest […]
Five years ago this week, the president touted a “comprehensive” new energy policy that Dick Cheney had crafted with the help of … well, it’s a bit of a secret. Regardless, in May 2001, Bush boasted of the results we could expect as a result of his administration’s bold new approach. He even touted his […]