In July, the president hosted a press conference in which he complained that reporters neglected to cover positive news in Iraq. Apparently feeling a little sorry for himself, Bush said, “[I]ncreasing electricity in Baghdad is not the kind of thing that tends to get on the news.” It wasn’t much of an argument. For one […]
The president’s terrestrial policies haven’t been particularly successful, but how about his plans for space? I’m afraid they’re not much better. President Bush has signed a new National Space Policy that rejects future arms-control agreements that might limit U.S. flexibility in space and asserts a right to deny access to space to anyone “hostile to […]
Silly reality-based community; we’ve been watching the [tag]Bush[/tag] White House for the last three-and-a-half years thinking that the president doesn’t have a plan for the [tag]war[/tag] in [tag]Iraq[/tag] beyond “stay the course.” Sure, it looks like an endless stream of disastrous decisions, followed by intransigence in the face of tragedy, but we’re not in on […]
Because I’ve never been able to grasp why, exactly, conservatives believe there’s a “liberal media,” I immediately gravitate towards examples of leftward bias identified by conservatives. I want to understand the right’s complaints, because for all the media reading/watching/listening I do, evidence of an actual liberal media eludes me. Today, ABC News’ The Note, which […]
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: * The New York Times conducted a big statewide poll in Ohio and found that the state “appears to have become hostile terrain for Republicans this year, with voters there overwhelmingly saying Democrats […]
The WaPo ran a good front-page piece today on what seems like an increasingly likely scenario: a Democratic Congress will be “the end of George W. Bush’s presidency as he has known it.” The question then becomes, of course, what exactly would the White House do for its final two years. The Post’s Peter Baker […]
I usually don’t do this, but I was making the rounds for one of my other gigs this morning, stopping by many of the far-right sites I check in on daily. I’m frequently amazed by what I find, but today, one post stood out for me. Riehl World View, a fairly prominent conservative blog, noted […]
Way back in March, Republicans thought it was so hilarious that Rep. Harold Ford, a Dem Senate candidate in Tennessee, enjoyed nice hotels and amenities, that they created a borderline-racist website called “Fancy Ford.” The GOP has updated the attack with what may be the lamest criticism of the entire election season. Don’t tell us […]
I hesitate to use the word “pathological,” but no one in the government has been as willing as Vice President Dick Cheney to make ridiculous, demonstrably false claims about “progress” in Iraq. The way in which Cheney describes the war suggests not only that he’s willing to mislead the nation; he also simply does not […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * It’s hard to believe House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) would seriously tell a group of voters that “the situation [in Iraq] is more stable than you think,” and that being in Baghdad is “like being in Manhattan,” but it’s true. I’ve seen the video. * With his […]