I need a small favor from readers. It literally only takes a few seconds. The Carpetbagger Report has been nominated in the 2007 Weblog Awards, which apparently are driven by popular vote. (I’m nominated in the Best of the Top 251-500 Blogs. I’m not sure how they arrived at these numbers and/or rankings, but it’s […]
Way back in July, the House Judiciary Committee approved contempt of Congress citations against White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten and former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, for their refusal to testify in response to congressional subpoenas. And then … nothing. There’s been nary a word uttered on the matter since. Judiciary Committee Chairman […]
When it comes to the polls, Ron Paul can’t quite top 5% in any scientific state or national survey. But when it comes to fundraising, results like these sure are impressive. Proving again his ability to raise significant cash online, Ron Paul has raised nearly $2 million since midnight via his website. In what is […]
There was plenty of speculation over the summer about whether NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg might run as an independent candidate for president. He’d deny interest, but then tease reporters with some kind of ambiguous answer about intentions. This went back and forth for a while, until in August, Bloomberg stopped being coy. Asked by Dan […]
It’s been a while since we’ve last heard from the American Family Association’s the Rev. Donald E. Wildmon. Every once in a while, Wildmon and the AFA will draw headlines for attacking a group or company for being insufficiently “pro-family,” though most of their complaints come across as bizarre rants from extremists. The targets from […]
One of the underlying themes of Tom Schaller’s Whistling Past Dixie and Paul Krugman’s The Conscience of a Liberal is how the modern Republican Party has relied on racial tensions for electoral gain. The exploitation of racism has varied in subtleties over the years, but the basic “Southern Strategy” has been consistent for several decades. […]
The recent discussion of the U.S. tolerance for waterboarding has been dominated by a certain Alice-in-Wonderland quality lately, but when a top U.S. State Department official can’t even comment on Americans being waterboarded by foreign governments, the debate has officially gone down the rabbit hole. (via Talk Left) The top legal adviser within the US […]
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: * It looks like John Edwards will go a little further than he has before in challenging Hillary Clinton: “Senator Clinton is voting like a hawk in Washington, while talking like a dove […]
A few weeks ago, shortly after his veto of the bipartisan State Children’s Health Insurance Program (S-CHIP) bill, the president was asked at a press conference why the process broke down. A reporter said, “Isn’t there a responsibility by both the President and congressional leadership to work on this common ground before it gets to […]
Last week’s inane discussion about whether Hillary Clinton played the “gender card” after the most recent debate seemed, thankfully, to be dying on the vine. The media was a little too excited to have a new narrative to bat around, but the truth is, Clinton never actually said sexism drove her Democratic rivals to criticize […]