Of the new purge revelations, perhaps even more startling than learning about Alberto Gonzales’ mendacity — after all, is that new? — were emails between Tasia Scolinos, a senior public affairs specialist at the Justice Department, and Catherine Martin, a White House communications adviser. First, the notion that the prosecutors were fired for performance reasons […]
Remember all the comments [tag]Attorney General[/tag] [tag]Alberto Gonzales[/tag] has made this month about not having been directly involved with the [tag]prosecutor[/tag] purge? Right about now, Gonzales probably wishes you didn’t. Internal [tag]Bush[/tag] administration e-mails suggest that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have played a bigger role than he has acknowledged in the plan to fire […]
Guest Post by Morbo I realize not everyone is a fan of “The New Republic.” Personally, I find it sometimes enlightening and sometimes exasperating. For a journal of political and cultural thought, that’s not a bad place to be. Recently, TNR was bought by a CanWest, a Canadian media conglomerate that leans right. There are […]
Guest Post by Morbo A museum in Tallahassee, Fla., is under fire for an exhibit called “The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag.” The piece, by artist John Sims, shows a Confederate flag hanging from a noose on a gallows. Officials at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science say they have no […]
Guest Post by Morbo The allegation that someone other than Shakespeare wrote the plays that bear his name is the creationism of the literary world. I was pleased, therefore, to see a thorough debunking of this nonsense recently. In the piece, Stanley Wells, chairman of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon, points out that there […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Best wishes to Tony Snow for a speedy recovery. * I get the feeling Iran’s decision to detain 15 British soldiers is going to be a fairly big deal. * Of all the speeches from the House floor today about the war in Iraq, I’m partial to Rep. Patrick […]
The timing of this isn’t terribly convenient for the Bush White House. Just as the president and his team are arguing that administration officials would never lie to Congress and wouldn’t dream of preventing lawmakers from receiving the information they need to conduct a thorough investigation … Steven Griles pleads guilty to lying to Congress […]
It’s fairly routine for big campaigns to run afoul of some campaign-finance measure. A campaign may miss a deadline, or misreport a donation, or exceed a spending limit. In general, the Federal Election Commission notices, the candidate in question makes amends, and nary an eyebrow is raised. But a $40 million excess in campaign spending […]
It’s probably unwise to get into a semantics debate over the president’s remarks, but I was struck by Bush’s reaction to the House’s Iraq bill this afternoon. Joined at the White House by veterans and service family members, Bush said: “A narrow majority in the House of Representatives abdicated its responsibility by passing a war […]
Against my better judgment, I started reading Charles Krauthammer’s column today and was pleasantly surprised by the first five words: “Alberto Gonzales has to go.” I should have stopped reading. The column went downhill from there. Krauthammer insists Gonzales’ mistake isn’t obstruction of justice and/or perjury, but merely political. “Gonzales has allowed a scandal to […]