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: * Minnesota’s closely-watched Senate race appears to be increasingly out of reach for Republicans. A new Minnesota Poll shows [tag]Amy Klobuchar[/tag] (D) leading Rep. [tag]Mark Kennedy[/tag] (R), 56% to 32%. Independence Party candidate […]
Shortly before the 2004 presidential election, the Rev. George F. Regas, the former rector of [tag]All Saints[/tag] [tag]Episcopal[/tag] Church in Pasadena, told his congregation about his perspective on the president and the war in Iraq. Regas imagined Jesus participating in a political debate with [tag]Bush[/tag] and [tag]Kerry[/tag] and said that “good people of profound faith” […]
[tag]John Danforth[/tag], a former three-term U.S. senator, Bush’s former ambassador to the United Nations, and an Episcopal minister, has been rocking the GOP’s boat to a surprising degree the last couple of years. In March 2005, Danforth wrote a blistering New York Times op-ed, criticizing what he saw as the transformation of the [tag]GOP[/tag] “into […]
Anyone who has followed the administration’s assault on the rule of law is familiar with the work of John Yoo, the former Justice Department lawyer and current Berkley law professor. Yesterday, Yoo did all of us a small favor: he put his entire twisted approach to the law in a single New York Times op-ed, […]
We’ve known for several years that the Bush administration’s criminal negligence in creating and overseeing the Coalition Provisional Authority, which ran Iraq from April 2003 to June 2004, is as painful a story as any told about Bush’s presidency. And yet, new head-shaking details keep emerging that makes one wonder how, exactly, these guys could […]
Maybe I’m old fashioned, but I always thought the best way for a party to approach an election season is to win as many seats as humanly possible. If you’re in the minority, you’re aiming for the majority. If you’re in the majority, you’re aiming for a bigger majority. To want anything less is not […]
Charles Pierce beat me to a point that I’ve been meaning to mention for days. It’s worth mentioning anyway. The Family Research Council, DC’s most powerful religious right lobbying group, is hosting a major conference this Friday called the “2006 Values Voter Summit.” For a mere $95, attendees can hear three days worth of far-right, […]
At yesterday’s White House press conference, the [tag]president[/tag] used one word 11 times in describing his proposal for interrogating detainees. See if you can spot it. “What I’m proposing is that there be [tag]clarity[/tag] in the law so that our professionals will have no doubt that that which they are doing is legal…. The professionals […]
Rumors surfaced a couple of months ago about New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s possible interest in a [tag]presidential[/tag] [tag]campaign[/tag] in [tag]2008[/tag]. Publicly, [tag]Bloomberg[/tag] has denied any interest and vowed not to run. Privately, he’s thinking about it — and talking to others about the possibility. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has always denied it, but […]
[tag]Tennessee[/tag]’s Democratic Senate hopeful, [tag]Harold Ford[/tag], has closed the gap against Bob Corker (R) and, in some polls, actually taken the lead in the race to replace Sen. Bill Frist (R). Ford’s [tag]advertising[/tag], in particular, has been effective in garnering support for his campaign, but the Democrat seems to have pushed the envelope a bit […]