Despite claims to the contrary, the Bush White House repeatedly stonewalled the [tag]9/11[/tag] [tag]Commission[/tag] at every available opportunity. Apparently, commission members believe that the [tag]Pentagon[/tag] followed the president’s example — and may have “deliberately [tag]misled[/tag]” investigators. Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon’s initial story of how it […]
Less than a year ago, a conservative majority on [tag]Kansas[/tag]’ State [tag]Board[/tag] of [tag]Education[/tag] adopted state [tag]science[/tag] standards on how to teach modern [tag]biology[/tag]. Or in Kansas’ case, how to avoid it — the standards adopted by the state board represented the broadest challenge to [tag]evolution[/tag] in the country. [tag]Democrats[/tag] and [tag]moderate[/tag] [tag]Republicans[/tag] organized a […]
A month ago, presidential aide Dan Bartlett told reporters that this summer, Bush was going to do things a little differently. “Every team changes the playbook every once in a while and this is an opportunity to share what’s on his mind but also get a sense of what’s on the minds of the people […]
Is it me, or is Senate Majority Leader [tag]Bill Frist[/tag] getting less coherent as time goes on? “I’d be hard-pressed to say we’re not addressing the issues that mean something to the [tag]average[/tag] hard-working [tag]taxpayer[/tag] out there today.” – Majority Leader Bill Frist, Senate Floor, 8/1/06 I can appreciate the fact that he’s probably feeling […]
The White House press briefing room is almost nothing like the one on The West Wing. I’ve only been in it twice (for a grand total of a couple of minutes), but I can attest that it’s a bit of a mess. It’s small, there are wires all over the place, there are lights that […]
The smears in Ohio’s gubernatorial race have been coming fast and furious lately, and it was only a matter of time before they officially became silly. I think it’s safe to say we reached that point over the weekend. It started last week when Gary Lankford, hired by the Ohio GOP in July as its […]
For a political party that positions itself as the principled, unflinchingly liberal ones, I’ll never understand why the [tag]Green Party[/tag] allows itself to be used in such a blatant matter by the right. Thanks to the generosity of GOP donors, a Green Party candidate is expected to make it onto the ballot in Pennsylvania’s Senate […]
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: * We’ve long known that the Florida Republican establishment is less-than thrilled with Rep. [tag]Katherine Harris[/tag]’ (R) Senate campaign, but it’s apparently worse than we knew. About three months ago, the Florida Republican […]
The timing paints a twisted image. First we learn that the Bush administration is targeting the working poor with audits, checking to see if they qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit. Then we learn that the Bush administration is eliminating half the IRS lawyers who audit tax returns of some of the wealthiest Americans, […]
Of all of [tag]Bush[/tag]’s misstatements from the 2000 presidential election, one of the most obviously-false attacks was on military readiness. Indeed, then-Gov. Bush blamed Clinton and Gore directly for “hollowing out” the military. “If called on by the commander-in-chief today, two entire divisions of the Army would have to report, ‘[tag]Not ready for duty[/tag], sir.’” […]