Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is generating plenty of headlines this afternoon. For example, the former Massachusetts governor believes Bush is right about the war, but was wrong in how the war has been managed. Romney is for tax cuts, but doesn’t think we can afford any new ones. But for my money, the real […]
For a while, it looked as if the right planned to attack Barack Obama for his “hidden Muslim background,” which, as it turned out, didn’t exist. Now, it appears the right may be ready to go after Obama’s actual religion. During the “Obameter” segment on the February 7 edition of MSNBC’s Tucker, host Tucker Carlson […]
In October, Heather Cerveny, a Marine Corps sergeant, went public with allegations into prisoner abuse she learned of at Guantanamo Bay. Cerveny spent a week at the base in late September as a legal aide to a military lawyer, and heard directly from several Navy prison guards about harsh, and frequently arbitrary, physical abuse. U.S. […]
For his role in pushing John Edwards to fire Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwen, the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue is receiving a heaping of scrutiny from the progressive side of the blogosphere for some fairly offensive things he’s said and done over the years. For my money, Nico has found the most pertinent example. Deal […]
National Review’s Mark Krikorian reports today: According to a congressman’s wife who attended a Republican women’s luncheon yesterday, Karl Rove explained the rationale behind the president’s amnesty/open-borders proposal this way: “I don’t want my 17-year-old son to have to pick tomatoes or make beds in Las Vegas.” Now, the comments seems to be coming at […]
Dan Froomkin noted yesterday one of the many interesting revelations from the Scooter Libby trial this week, specifically pointing to part of the problem of the DC political culture. (via Atrios) If you’re a journalist, and a very senior White House official calls you up on the phone, what do you do? Do you try […]
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: * On CBS’s Early Show this morning, Harry Smith asked Al Gore if he could better create change on the issue of global warming from inside the White House. Gore said that he […]
It’s amazing to me just how rough conservative blogs have had it lately. Every time the right’s blogs think they’re on to something big, they end up getting the story backwards and looking rather foolish. I’m starting to feel kind of bad for them. First there was Cliff May’s email from a Marine about Iraq […]
As much as I appreciated White House Press Secretary Tony Snow rejecting the Pelosi/plane nonsense as a “silly” story that is “unfair” to the House Speaker, the Baghdad Bob of White House officials hasn’t had a great week, at least as far as telling the truth is concerned. Let’s play a game — pick the […]
For weeks now, the principal conservative talking point against a congressional resolution criticizing Bush’s war escalation is that debate undermines the troops and emboldens the enemy. The argument has been embraced by everyone from Dick Cheney to John McCain to Bill Kristol. It is, unfortunately, demagoguery at its most insipid. War supporters can’t come up […]