I think what offends me most about the Fox News Channel is the way in which it makes a mockery of news broadcasts. It’s as biased as the Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, and it has all the buffoonery of several far-right blogs, but neither claim any moral high ground. Fox News actually claims to […]
Seymour Hersh has a rather astonishing piece in the latest edition of the New Yorker, concluding that, White House bluster notwithstanding, a draft intelligence assessment by the CIA has found “no conclusive evidence, as yet, of a secret Iranian nuclear-weapons program.” (thanks to SKNM for the heads-up) Naturally, the Bush gang isn’t terribly impressed — […]
There’s a certain temptation to forget about an election cycle once it’s over, and begin to focus attention on the immediate future. That’s particularly true when your side wins — whatever the other side was up to doesn’t matter as much, because they lost. But looking back at some of the GOP’s tactics in the […]
About 13 years ago, Rep. Marty Meehan (D-Mass.) not only supported the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, he also helped write it. He’s since come around. In 2005, Meehan championed the Military Readiness Enhancement Act, which would repeal the policy based on the belief that the ban undermines national security at a time when […]
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 New Mexico’s closely-watched 1st congressional district, Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.) appears to have eked out a narrow victory over state Attorney General Patricia Madrid (D) in one of the remaining undecided […]
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) stuck to the script yesterday during an appearance on ABC’s This Week, repeating his desire to see more troops sent to Iraq. What’s interesting, however, is that McCain seemed to need his notes quite a bit to get through the discussion. Take a look and count how many times McCain looks […]
Sometimes, the Bush gang really does resemble a jukebox that only plays one song. Karl Rove, for all of his alleged genius, has decided what the [tag]White House[/tag] really needs to do is — surprise, surprise — move to the right and placate the GOP base. Republicans close to the White House say Mr. Rove […]
It didn’t get much attention at the time, but the day after the election, Rep. [tag]Barney Frank[/tag] (D-Mass.), soon to be the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, gave an interesting speech in Boston to a number of business leaders. “I’m a capitalist, and that means I’m for inequality,” Frank said. “But you reach […]
Speaking of the Republicans’ top-tier presidential candidates (see below), former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is — get this — pitching himself as “in sync” with the views of the GOP’s base. In interviews, several of [Giuliani’s financial backers] said the former mayor had discussed his potential liabilities in a Republican primary — perhaps […]
Update: This post has been updated, expanded, and broken down by category. Just to follow-up briefly on Michael’s guest-post from yesterday, Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) new-found opposition to Roe v. Wade is rather remarkable, even for him. In 1999, McCain was in New Hampshire, campaigning for the GOP nomination as a moderate. He proclaimed himself […]