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: * Citizens for Community Values, an anti-pornography group in Ohio, is blasting Mitt Romney because he didn’t stop Marriott Hotels from offering adult movies to guests while he served on the company’s board […]
Boo hoo. The poor White House was able to go six years without any administration oversight or accountability at all, voters got tired of it, elected a Democratic Congress, and all of a sudden, some checks and balances have returned to Washington. The Bush gang has decided to whine about it. The White House Thursday […]
William Odom, a retired Army lieutenant general who was head of Army intelligence, Reagan’s director of the National Security Agency, and a professor at Yale, has taken a leading role in criticizing the president’s Iraq war policy. A few months ago, he wrote a devastating op-ed for the WaPo, debunking several pernicious myths bolstering war […]
Time will tell if Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) will have the courage to actually vote for a change in Iraq war policy. He offered some mildly encouraging comments yesterday, but we don’t yet know whether the senator, who is up for re-election next year, will put his vote where his rhetoric is. In announcing his […]
Conservatives want Americans to fear a national health care system. Conservatives also want Americans to fear Muslims. What better way to demagogue two birds with one stone than to connect the two in a transparently ridiculous discussion on Fox News? [Yesterday] on Fox News’s Your World With Neil Cavuto, National Review Online columnist Jerry Bowyer […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Convicted felon Scooter Libby cut a check today at the U.S. District Court for $250,400 — $250,000 as part of his criminal sentence that Bush didn’t clear away, and $400 for a special assessment. (A picture of the cashier’s check made it to Smoking Gun.) * If he had […]
Sometimes, these guys take all the fun out of it by making it too easy. From today’s White House press briefing, with fourth-string spokesperson Scott Stenzel: Q: Scott, is Scooter Libby getting more than equal justice under the law? Is he getting special treatment? STANZEL: Well, I guess I don’t know what you mean by […]
As recently as a few months ago, Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) was just another part of Team GOP when it came to the war. He voted with the party to give Bush anything and everything the White House wanted, he criticized Dems’ proposals, he refused to ask questions, and he spurned any efforts at administrative […]
Unable to defend the president’s conduct in the Libby scandal, the White House has embraced the well-established Clinton Misdirection Policy with both arms. The White House on Thursday made fun of former President Clinton and his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, for criticizing President Bush’s decision to erase the prison sentence of former aide I. […]
Michael Kinsley plays to type today with an NYT op-ed that tries to excuse Scooter Libby’s sins. [W]hen Mr. Libby was questioned by federal investigators pursuing the leaks, he too was caught in a perjury trap. He could either tell the truth, thereby implicating colleagues and very possibly himself, in leaking classified security information (the […]