Far too many conservatives have made it abundantly clear that they’re unhappy about a Muslim getting elected to Congress. Right-wing activists opposed Rep.-elect [tag]Keith Ellison[/tag]’s (D-Minn.) campaign while he was running, and after having won, most of these same activists are openly questioning whether his faith makes him unfit for office. These concerns reached new […]
The first hint that the Bush gang was prepared to throw Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki under the bus came in September, when senior administration officials leaked word to the New York Times that they’re no longer confident that Maliki has what it takes to hold the country together. Patience, the NYT reported, is […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * The post-election season hasn’t been kind to the Bush White House. A new Harris poll shows the president’s job performance rating dropping to just 31%, down three points since late-October. Overall, 31% of Americans also believe that things in the US. Are going in the right direction, which is […]
Dick Cheney was in Riyadh over the weekend, but the VP’s office, which is not exactly forthcoming on a regular basis, was unusually vague about this trip. According to what Cheney aides were willing to share, the Vice President traveled half-way around the world for a two-hour meeting with King Abdullah, then hoped on his […]
I’ll give you the quote; you guess the politician who said it. “‘Stay the course’ is gone. We’re going to try and devise some new strategies, hopefully with the President’s concurrence,” the senator said. “Our soldiers, sailors and airmen should not be in there, risking their lives, losing their lives to stop a Civil War.” […]
Following up on an item from last week, the religious right continues to be apoplectic about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) speaking from Rick Warren’s pulpit at Saddleback Church in California, 30,000-member megachurch. The reaction is far more telling than the invitation. Warren and Obama apparently became friends last year, and have kept in touch. When […]
In the weeks leading up to the midterm elections, Republicans had embraced a simple, albeit foolish, explanation for violence in the Middle East: terrorists were following U.S. elections closely and were killing people in the hopes that voters would back Democrats. It was never a particularly coherent tack, but that was their story and they […]
Long-time readers know that I take a certain amount of pleasure in mocking South Florida, where I was born and raised. There’s just something uniquely ridiculous about Miami and its surrounding communities that makes the area prone to outlandish, not to mention absurd, circumstances. And when it comes to politics, South Florida is, quite literally, […]
The president has been busy in Eastern Europe this morning, making brief appearances in [tag]Latvia[/tag] and [tag]Estonia[/tag]. [tag]Bush[/tag] fielded a handful of questions about [tag]Iraq[/tag], but unfortunately, he didn’t have anything encouraging to say. “There’s one thing I’m not going to do, I’m not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission […]
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: * In one of the handful of undecided House races, Rep. Deborah Pryce (R) was named the winner in Ohio’s 15th congressional district yesterday after provisional ballots were included in the overall total. […]