Guest Post by Morbo I try to avoid news about celebrities, but in this culture it’s next to impossible not to see some. Thus, I read recently that Brittney Spears and her husband, Kevin Federline, are divorcing, as are the Hollywood couple Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe. This leads me to conclude that it was […]
Guest Post by Morbo One of the great political myths of America is that African-American voters are like lemmings who do whatever their clergy or political leaders tell them to. That certainly was not the case this month in Prince George’s County, Md., a majority-black jurisdiction east of Washington, D.C. Several local Democratic politicians there, […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Remember how the Senate Republicans talked about doing away with the filibuster? Well, disingenuous hypocrites that they are, it looks like they may want to use it now that they’re back in the minority. According to Crooks and Liars, which has the video, Sen. James Inhofe has “threatened to […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings I’m sorry to be the one to bring you the bad news, if you haven’t heard it already, but Rick Santorum won’t — repeat: won’t — be running for president in ’08. “Absolutely, positively not,” he said. “Absolutely not.” I feel for Dan Savage. However much we dislike him, […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Think Progress is reporting (quoting Bulletin News) that Rove may soon leave the White House: The rumors that chief White House political architect Karl Rove will leave sometime next year are being bolstered with new insider reports that his partisan style is a hurdle to President Bush’s new push […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Sen. James Inhofe — thankfully the outgoing chair of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee — on FOX & Friends this morning: Now look, God’s still up there. We still have these natural changes, and this is what’s going on right now. New science comes out… If the […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings Alright, I’ve been a bit tough on Pelosi lately — first on Murtha-Hoyer, then on Harman. I trust I haven’t gone so far as to imply that I think she’s “a bitchy, vindictive shrew incapable of leading because she’s consumed by petty personal bickering rather than serious and substantive […]
Guest Post by Anonymous Liberal I realize the media likes nothing better than covering Democratic in-fighting (hence all the breathless op-eds and news articles this morning discussing the “fiasco” that is the Democratic leadership race), but maybe, just maybe, we should now devote some attention to the fact that, despite being resoundingly rebuked by voters, […]
Guest Post by Michael J.W. Stickings The high-profile Hoyer-Murtha contest for House majority leader, now in its what-does-it-all-mean aftermath, has obscured another of Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi’s efforts to put her own people in place. That effort concerns the chairmanship of the House Intelligence Committee, a key position as Democrats look to position themselves as the […]
Guest Post by John Cole The Drudge Report is flashing this headline from Breitbart: “Bush draws Vietnam lesson for Iraq: don’t quit” That isn’t the only thing Bush has learned from Viet Nam. As a life-long Republican, I can tell you that there is a not-insignificant portion of the GOP that is still convinced that […]