About a month ago, Time’s Joe Klein was railing against “left-wing extremists.” In this week’s column, Klein seems to have come to the conclusion that these same extremists are right about the president. The three big Bush stories of 2007–the decision to “surge” in Iraq, the scandalous treatment of wounded veterans at the Walter Reed […]
On Wednesday, Rudy Giuliani told CNN that he still supports public funding for abortion. On Thursday, Giuliani took his message on the road to South Carolina. Rudolph W. Giuliani, campaigning in South Carolina, firmly stated that as president he would not seek to make abortion illegal. Aware of the damage his position might do to […]
Fact-checking a Dick [tag]Cheney[/tag] interview with Rush [tag]Limbaugh[/tag] is an almost impossible task. The errors of fact and/or judgment occur so frequently, it’s hard to keep up. But try we must. The embattled Vice President chatted once again with radio’s most notorious demagogue and offered the kind of doozies that only Cheney can provide. For […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * The Congressional Black Caucus Institute may be willing to cooperate with Fox News on presidential debates, but the Democratic National Committee isn’t. The DNC announced today that it would officially sanction six debates during the primary process, but will refuse to sanction any event that includes the Republicans’ news […]
Like an adult who can’t come to grips with the notion that Santa Claus isn’t real, it must be tough to still deny the existence of global warming. After all, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just declared with 90 percent certainty that greenhouse gases are largely responsible for heating the planet. The White House […]
CNN’s Michael Ware isn’t the only major network journalist denouncing John McCain’s recent nonsense about allegedly safe areas of Baghdad; CBS News foreign correspondent Allen Pizzey has been nearly as critical. Pizzey, who’s based out of Rome, talked to Brian Montopoli today, who asked whether the senator’s comments bothered journalists in Iraq. Yes. It’s disgraceful […]
In recent years, it’s often been assumed that the president could deliver a war-related speech on a military base and receive an enthusiastic response. It’s practically a foregone conclusion — men and women in uniform are going to give their commander in chief a boisterous response, especially when he’s trying to motivate them with encouraging […]
The right seems to have written some dishonest, hard-hitting talking points on Speaker Pelosi’s trip to Syria, but I’m beginning to think a few members of the team missed the memo. (thanks to L.M. for the heads-up) Commenting on Bush’s criticism, California Republican Darrell Issa said the president had failed to promote the necessary dialogue […]
About a month ago, former New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee and answered questions about the events that led to his unjustified dismissal. As Slate’s Emily Bazelon noted, “Perhaps the most astonishing moment of the hearings was when it came out that the Department of Justice was dumb enough […]
I continue to be amazed by what congressional Republicans choose to complain about. Democrats and Republicans are at odds on whether to use President Bush’s catchall phrase “global war on terrorism” when talking about the billions of dollars spent each year in Iraq and elsewhere. A new internal memo by a senior Democratic staff member […]