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: * Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), whose 2008 support would be a coup for any GOP contender, seems to favor Mitt Romney and has been steering some of his closest advisers to […]
Matt Stoller caused a bit of a stir over the weekend with a provocative post about Senate Dems and opposition to the war in Iraq. After the latest GOP obstructionism blocked consideration of an anti-escalation resolution on Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid allowed the chamber to go into recess, which it had been scheduled […]
The incident started off in one, fairly benign, direction. Former Massachusetts Gov. and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney (R) was campaigning at the Lake Miona Regional Recreation Center in The Villages, Florida, generally considered a GOP stronghold. An anti-Mormon loud mouth blasted Romney for his faith. “You, sir, are a pretender,” the guy said. “You don’t […]
Following up on the last post, the WaPo’s Anne Hull and Dana Priest added the second of their two-part series today on the outrageous way in which wounded veterans are treated as outpatients at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Alas, the second was as disheartening as the first. Dell McLeod’s injury was utterly banal. […]
I remember, several years ago, seeing “Born on the Fourth of July,” and watching Tom Cruise’s character, who had been seriously wounded in Vietnam, come back to the U.S., only to get stuck and mistreated in a rat-infested veterans hospital. Cruise was disgusted. “This place is a fu**in’ slum!” he’d say. The movie was fiction, […]