Here’s the scenario: a long-serving Senate incumbent is facing a primary challenge from a rival more in tune with the party’s base. The incumbent is frequently willing to break party ranks, even on key political issues, but during the primary, the party establishment rallies behind the incumbent, much to the dismay of the party’s base, […]
Yesterday, Bush held a rare solo press conference in Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry. A few hours later, at a fundraiser for Illinois gubernatorial candidate Judy Baar Topinka, the president mentioned how much he liked the museum. “By the way, if you go to the Science Museum, take your kids, it is a special […]
Way back on Jan. 4, Scott McClellan promised reporters a “thorough report” on Jack Abramoff’s [tag]White House[/tag] contacts “very soon.” That, of course, never happened, but we’ve slowly begun to learn about the access the disgraced lobbyist had to the White House anyway. In May, the [tag]Secret Service[/tag] released logs showing just two [tag]Abramoff[/tag] visits […]
What’s with the fascination among Republican leaders about electricity in Baghdad? Yesterday, during his Chicago press conference, Bush said: “We occasionally are able to pop in with great success, like Zarqawi or 12 million people voting. But increasing electricity in Baghdad is not the kind of thing that tends to get on the news.” It’s […]
It was an usually busy Week in God, so let’s get started. First up from the God machine is an update on a story we’ve covered a couple of times. Army Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart was killed in Afghanistan on Sept. 25, 2005, when his CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down by enemy fire. A […]
Guest Post by Morbo If he loses the Democratic primary election, Sen. Joseph Lieberman has vowed to run as an independent. While making this promise, he had the gall to invoke the name of a Democratic Party saint: President John F. Kennedy. “I have been a proud, loyal and progressive Democrat since John F. Kennedy […]
Guest Post by Morbo A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about nutcase fundamentalist Christians claiming to have found [tag]Noah’s Ark[/tag] — again. Of course it’s a crock, and now the National Geographic has kindly pointed that out. You have to read to the end to get to the good stuff, but here’s the […]
As part of his not-so-exciting new public relations strategy, the [tag]president[/tag] hosted an hour-long press conference from Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry this morning. It was more or less like any White House [tag]press conference[/tag], except there were some local reporters on hand. Most of the exchanges were pretty predictable — Bush filibustered to […]
I continue to believe, perhaps mistakenly, that the GOP phone-jamming scandal in New Hampshire is a bigger deal than the attention it’s been getting. To follow up on last month’s item about the White House’s possible connection to the controversy, a new report suggests one of the indicted phone jammers may end up pointing the […]
In the kind of hard-hitting interview Bush prefers, the president answered questions this week from People magazine (via TP). It was mostly harmless fluff about exercise and family, but People did ask Bush whether he believes Al Gore is right about global warming. “I think we have a problem on global warming. I think there […]