We’ve known for a long while that [tag]abstinence[/tag]-only policies, promoted and funded through the Bush administration towards America’s teens, are costly, inaccurate, and ineffective. So, given the Bush gang’s record, it should come as no surprise that these same policies are now being directed towards adults. Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to […]
Josh Marshall noted this morning with the election just seven days away, the GOP’s “desperation will be ferocious. Imagine everything from the last six years rolled into one toxic week. An electoral gauntlet of hacking knives and fire.” And it starts, of course, with the president’s overheated rhetoric. We seem to be building towards some […]
When Chris Matthews recently described the national media as John McCain’s “base,” he really wasn’t kidding. In her latest column, posted online on October 29 and that will appear in the November 6 edition of U.S. News & World Report, U.S. News contributing editor and CBS News national political correspondent Gloria Borger asserted that “[n]o […]
With time running out and the race too close to call, Virginia Sen. George Allen (R) seemed to believe that he had found the knock-out punch: challenger Jim Webb (D) wrote a novel with some racy scenes 20 years ago, and highlighting them would turn voters away from the strong upstart candidate. How’s that working […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Watch The Decider become The Delegator. It’s nearly four years and the president never thought about applying the code of military conduct to hired guns? Please, watch the clip. * The reaction to “heated” the Wolf Blitzer/Lynne Cheney interview from the weekend continues to reverberate a bit. Blitzer gave […]
At first blush, this might sound predictable and inconsequential, but it deserves some close scrutiny. United States Senator Joseph I. Lieberman won the backing of a top Republican in the Senate on Friday [Oct. 20] as Howard Dean traveled here to rally Democrats behind Ned Lamont’s effort to unseat Mr. Lieberman. […] Mr. Lieberman appeared […]
About a week ago, I mentioned that Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) compared Democrats to Nazi appeasers and suggested the only thing standing between the United States and some kind of terrorist-based fascism is his re-election. Not quite content with embarrassing himself last week, Santorum decided to push the envelope just a little further over the […]
White House officials have spent an inordinate amount of time lately trying to convince American voters that they know which party the terrorists like more, and the electorate should back candidates who’d make the terrorists unhappy. To do otherwise would be to “appease” the enemy. With this in mind, Ari Melber asks a pertinent question […]
Bush’s political appointees? Overriding scientists for political purposes? You don’t say. A senior Bush political appointee at the Interior Department has rejected staff scientists’ recommendations to protect imperiled animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act at least six times in the past three years, documents show. In addition, staff complaints that their scientific findings […]
A growing number of Republican office-holders and candidates have come to the conclusion that most of us realized a long time ago: it’s time for Donald Rumsfeld to go. Indeed, it’s getting tough to find anyone outside the White House who’s willing to defend what it obviously a disastrous tenure at the Pentagon. Then again, […]