Earlier this week, Roll Call had a report about how the Senate Dem caucus reacts to Joe Lieberman (I) between now and Election Day. The article suggested some Dems will go through the motions while quietly hoping for a Lieberman victory. Why quietly? Because some Dems are worried about the blogs’ reaction. Another well-placed Democratic […]
TPM guest blogger DK raised a provocative point that I’ve been mulling over lately. I’d love to get some feedback on the argument. Should progressives shift their money and attention from the Connecticut Senate race to more important contests? Absolutely. Look, one of the Dems’ problems in recent years is an inability to walk and […]
Slate’s John Dickerson offers Dems some advice in responding to Republicans’ election-year fear-mongering: fight fire with fire. With the GOP telling voters, “Vote for Democrats and more Americans will die,” it’s the only reasonable approach. Here’s my advice: The Democrats should embrace fear-mongering more passionately…. The question the Democrats should be asking is whether Bush’s […]
Honestly, if North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Vernon Robinson didn’t exist, we’d have to invent him. A few months ago, I noted his first bizarre TV ad that you’d swear was a parody making fun of fringe right-wingers, but alas, it’s entirely sincere. Now that the campaign is entering the homestretch, Robinson has decided to […]
I can vaguely appreciate the fact that it’s possible — not likely, but possible — that a large asteroid will collide with the earth at some point over the next few millennia. For that matter, I’m pleased there are really smart people looking into it, as evidenced by the International Astronomical Union setting up a […]
If there’s a logical defense for this, I can’t think of it. The New York Civil Liberties Union filed a complaint on Tuesday against three pharmacists in upstate New York claiming that the pharmacists “refused to fill prescriptions for refill doses of emergency contraception,” the Associated Press reports. What is particularly striking about this case […]
If Morbo weren’t out of town today, I’m certain he’d be here making fun of this. Workers at a chocolate company [in Fountain Valley, Calif.] have discovered a 2-inch-tall column of [tag]chocolate[/tag] drippings that they believe bears a striking resemblance to traditional depictions of the [tag]Virgin Mary[/tag]. Since the discovery of the drippings under a […]
I wasn’t terribly surprised when the national [tag]media[/tag] hyperventilated over the latest details in the [tag]JonBenet[/tag] [tag]Ramsey[/tag] [tag]murder[/tag] case. In fact, it’s been a fairly slow summer for over-the-top media fluff fests — I can’t remember the last time I was warned about an epidemic of shark attacks — so I suppose new outlets were […]
Now that Joe Lieberman has lost much of his pre-primary staff — some were fired, some resigned — the candidate is filling critical campaign needs. TNR’s Jason Zengerle noted today that Lieberman has hired Josh Isay, who “has some Senate campaign experience with Chuck Schumer,” as his new media consultant. There’s a bit more to […]
The ultra-conservative Washington Times reports today on one of the rare Bush-appointed heroes in Iraq — and why the administration is doing whatever it can to undermine him. There is a battle going on between Stuart Bowen, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction (SIGIR), and bureaucrats responsible for thousands of rebuilding contracts in Iraq. […]