Guest Post by Morbo As the Carpetbagger reported this week, right-wing columnist Thomas Sowell believes America is in such bad shape that a military coup might be needed to set things right. I’d like to say I was surprised to read this, but we’ve come to the point where virtually nothing the kook right says […]
Guest Post by Morbo There are many reasons to loath Ralph Nader. One of the reasons I loath him is that Nader persists in claiming that the two parties are the same. What rubbish. The two parties are poles apart on numerous issues. This was dramatically illustrated this week in a House of Representatives vote […]
Guest Post by Morbo As the Carpetbagger mentioned briefly on Wednesday, the electronic store chain Circuit City is in trouble. A few weeks ago, the super-geniuses who run the company decided to adopt an innovative cost-cutting measure: 3,400 of the chain’s most experienced — and thus highest paid — employees were told to hit the […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * A front-page WaPo report yesterday suggested Dems were poised to give in entirely on the president’s demands on war funding, but today, the caucuses appeared to be standing relatively firm: “Congressional Democrats have signaled they’re not ready to back down in their confrontation with President Bush on Iraq, spurring […]
House Oversight Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice have been going back and forth in an increasingly interesting feud for several weeks now. Today, it got a little more interesting. The exchanges have been about whether Rice will show up for a hearing about the administration’s pre-war intelligence failures, specifically […]
Earlier this week, after the president vetoed Congress’ war-funding bill, Democratic leaders posed a challenge to the president and other war supporters: come up with a policy. “If the president thinks by vetoing this bill he will stop us from working to change the direction of the war in Iraq, he is mistaken,” Senate Majority […]
Charles Krauthammer, today: The decision to go to war was made by a war cabinet consisting of George Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell and Donald Rumsfeld. No one in that room could even remotely be considered a neoconservative. Key participants in the Project for the New American Century and their positions in the […]
ABC News’ The Note suggested this morning that Mitt Romney “looked presidential” during last night’s debate, but he also appeared “a smidge too pat in listing obscure terrorist groups.” As a substantive matter, it’s considerably worse than The Note made it sound. Chris Matthews asked Romney about his recent comments that it’s not worth the […]
Rudy Giuliani repeated Ronald Reagan’s name more than any of his rivals last night, but one of the references went a little too far. Chris Matthews had raised a plausible hypothetical: The prime minister of Israel calls the White House to alert the president that Israel is about to strike Iran’s nuclear sites and he […]
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: * Florida has thrown a huge monkey wrench into the presidential nominating schedule by moving its primary up to Jan. 29, a week ahead of the Feb. 5 primaries that make up a […]