The progressive blogosphere has collectively dropped a very big hammer on the Washington Post’s blogger-in-residence Ben Domenech. At this point, the takedown is complete; the Post’s decision has been exposed as plainly misguided. The only question that remains is whether the Post will suffer the humiliation of firing the far-right activist shortly after hiring him, […]
The New York Times ran yet another item today on the idea that the White House staff is exhausted and getting sloppy — and probably needs some “relief pitchers” with fresh arms. But more importantly, the article included one paragraph that helped capture so much of what’s wrong with this White House. By most accounts […]
Ever since Jennifer Loven’s terrific AP article over the weekend on Bush’s straw-men arguments, I’ve found it hard to listen to White House officials without noticing how dependent the Bush gang is on this inane rhetorical game. It’s almost as if they can’t help themselves. The president had a real gem yesterday. “Now, I understand […]
The Tax Foundation released its most recent analysis of federal taxes paid by individual states, as compared to the federal revenue those same states received. The analysis asks the straightforward question: “Which States Gain Most from Federal Fiscal Operations? (.pdf) Now, from a political and ideological perspective, “small government” types in states that tend to […]
I’d always just assumed that Republicans call their rivals the “Democrat Party” as some kind of childish insult. They realize it’s grammatically wrong, but they think it annoys Dems, so, like a child who enjoys teasing others a little too much, they stick to it. I’ve falsely assumed, however, that this is a fairly modern […]
Many thanks to all of you who have voted for The Carpetbagger Report in the Koufax Awards. I know the servers over there have been overwhelmed at times, making voting difficult. I wanted to follow up and let readers know that the voting has slowed down a bit, making the servers a little less hectic. […]
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: * Iraq-war veteran Tim Dunn (D) was poised to be a top congressional candidate this year, but he dropped out of his North Carolina race this week, due in large part to a […]
The White House and its allies have decided that they need to push back against the media is on Iraq. Over the weekend, Dick Cheney said, “There is a constant sort of perception, if you will, that’s created because what’s newsworthy is the car bomb in Baghdad.” Donald Rumsfeld added, “Fortunately, history is not made […]
The University of Minnesota published an interesting study this week on the last minority that Americans really don’t like. American’s increasing acceptance of religious diversity doesn’t extend to those who don’t believe in a god, according to a national survey by researchers in the University of Minnesota’s department of sociology. From a telephone sampling of […]
Reader RM noted that when it comes to fundraising for this year’s Senate campaigns, Dems are not only doing well, they’re far ahead of their GOP rivals. The Republican committee that handles Senate campaigns picked up the pace in fundraising in February but still trails its rival Democratic committee by almost a 2-to-1 margin. The […]