Guest Post by Morbo George Will believes the Democrats can’t run on the issue of the economy because everything is going so well. Tax cuts for the super-rich have rained prosperity down on the nation, and the middle class has nothing to fear. So there. If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s being lectured […]
Guest Post by Morbo Richard Honaker believes abortion is murder and that biblical law should trump the secular law. Naturally, President George W. Bush wants to make him a federal judge. Honaker is a former member of the Wyoming House of Representatives. While serving in that body, he pushed legislation that would have banned nearly […]
Guest Post by Morbo Last Sunday I picked up The Washington Post’s “Book World” and was greeted with a pleasant surprise: Al Gore’s “The Assault on Reason” was number one on the non-fiction bestsellers list. The kook right is apoplectic. Movement loyalists are desperately seeking to discredit the book — but their first salvo was […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * I guess we won’t hear any more of the rhetoric about “the surge hasn’t even been fully implemented yet.” As of reports this morning, the “full contingent of new U.S. forces being sent to Iraq…was completed by Friday, with 28,500 additional troops now posted in the country.” * On […]
Salon’s Tim Grieve was listening to White House Counselor Dan Bartlett, who recently announced his departure, reflect on his experiences in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper. Bartlett’s perspective was so amazing, I initially thought he was kidding. “The good thing about this president — and I think this is the reason why he was […]
Drudge has been touting his latest Clinton “scandal,” this time accusing the former president of giving a for-profit speech for Asian investors on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. Like far too many Drudge “scoops,” this one’s false. Drudge told readers: FORMS REVEAL: Bill Clinton commemorated the 5th anniversary of 9/11with a paid […]
The national status quo when it came to gays was so ingrained for so long, it’s easy to forget how spectacularly successful American society has been in progressing towards equality. It’s possible, as a straight white guy, my perspective is skewed, but as yesterday’s vote in the Massachusetts legislature reminds us, we’ve come a long […]
I noted yesterday that for all the conservative outrage in response to Harry Reid’s fairly mild criticism of outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace, the right neglected to realize that Pace had just been fired. All things being equal, if conservatives have formed a We Love Peter Pace Fan Club, […]
This comes up from time to time, but Tom Edsall had a good piece today reminding us of the political consequences of the right’s rhetoric in the immigration debate. Republican opposition to liberalized immigration reform has put at risk the loyalty of a key constituency – evangelical Protestant Hispanics. The loss of this Hispanic support […]
Poor Trent Lott. Comments by Republican senators on Thursday suggested that they were feeling the heat from conservative critics of the bill, who object to provisions offering legal status. The Republican whip, Trent Lott of Mississippi, who supports the bill, said: “Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.” I see. […]