The McCain campaign has been pretty aggressive this week in pushing a new meme: John McCain has taken political risks by working with Dems on important issues, while Barack Obama hasn’t. I’m not sure if this is actually a vote-getter, but voters (and the media) seem to appreciate those willing to reach across the aisle […]
The right continues to find odd things to get excited about. The latest hullabaloo is over this exchange from the House Judiciary Committee hearing the other day, between Rep. Bill Delahunt (D-Mass.) and Cheney Chief of Staff David Addington. To briefly summarize, Delahunt brought up Addington’s legal advice to the administration regarding waterboarding. Addington explained […]
First up from The God Machine this week is an item about George W. Bush’s renewed interest in his so-called “faith-based” initiative, one of the few policy priorities the president wanted but couldn’t get through a Republican Congress in his first term. A few days ago, perhaps with an eye towards “legacy building,” Bush decided […]
Guest Post by Morbo The Talking Heads once asserted that Heaven “is a place where nothing ever happens.” They may be right, but that doesn’t keep people from aspiring to spend eternity behind the Pearly Gates. Heaven may also be a crowded place, if the American people are right about what it takes to get […]
Guest Post by Morbo The Carpetbagger noted this week that Ayatollah-wannabee James Dobson of Focus on the Family has launched a salvo against Barack Obama. After reading about it, I decided to listen to the entire Dobson broadcast. It’s quite enlightening — and it’s also one of the lamest assaults on Obama from the right […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * It was largely symbolic, but I guess they won’t be able to send engineers back in after inspectors are gone: “In a gesture demonstrating its commitment to halt its nuclear weapons program, North Korea blew up the most prominent symbol of its plutonium production Friday.” * The flooding crisis […]
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton shared a stage in Unity, New Hampshire, today, and the good news is it wasn’t for a debate. The better news is they held a beautiful rally, with a heavy emphasis on unity, at the very first joint appearance since Obama secured the nomination. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham […]
Grover Norquist has quite a history of being unhinged. He’s said the Estate Tax is morally equivalent to the Nazi Holocaust; he’s called WWII veterans “anti-American,” and he’s called bipartisanship “another name for date rape.” But this clown isn’t done pushing the envelope. Norquist dropped by The Times’ Washington bureau today and, as part of […]
There was a vote last night in the Senate on the war supplemental, which included the Webb/Hagel GI Bill. The spending bill, including the expanded education benefits for veterans, passed overwhelmingly (92 to 6), and will be added to the $165 billion that the House and Senate have already approved for the wars in Iraq […]
Earlier this week, Focus on the Family’s James Dobson went after Barack Obama with a vengeance. Today, the Family Research Council, which Dobson helped form, goes after Obama on abortion. The ad, which will reportedly begin airing today in Cincinnati, Dallas, and Atlanta, features Obama telling a church congregation, “We need fathers to recognize that […]