Jerome Corsi helped destroy John Kerry in 2004 with a hatchet-job, “Unfit for Command,” that became the basis for the entire Swiftboat smear. It worked once, so Corsi’s giving it another shot. Almost exactly four years after that campaign began, Mr. Corsi has released a new attack book painting Senator Barack Obama, the Democrats’ presumed […]
Following up on an item from June, there has been a quiet discussion going on among Democratic Party leaders and select interests about the language on reproductive rights in the party’s platform. A new draft is making the rounds, and, predictably, it’s drawing a series of competing reactions. The last Democratic Party platform, written four […]
It’s probably safe to say John McCain is losing the NYT’s Thomas Friedman. John McCain recently tried to underscore his seriousness about pushing through a new energy policy, with a strong focus on more drilling for oil, by telling a motorcycle convention that Congress needed to come back from vacation immediately and do something about […]
It wasn’t too long ago when Charlie Black, a top McCain campaign strategist, told reporters, “[W]e don’t want to talk about [Barack Obama’s] patriotism and character. We concede that he’s a patriot and person of good character.” Like most of the McCain campaign’s commitments, this didn’t last long. One of the McCain campaign’s new themes, […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Russia has apparently finished making its point: “President Dmitri A. Medvedev of Russia agreed on Tuesday to the terms of a cease-fire that could end the clashes in Georgia, saying Russia had ‘punished’ Georgia enough for its aggression against the separatist enclave of South Ossetia. The six-point agreement — […]
If you listen to John McCain’s speeches, and watch some of his commercials, the senator’s support for wind power is strong. It’s his record that’s more of a problem. In May, for example, McCain appeared at a wind power plant, insisting, “Wind power is one of many alternative energy sources that are changing our economy […]
As reported here over the weekend, James Dobson’s Focus on the Family employs Stuart Shepard to make short, “clever” religious-right videos for the evangelical powerhouse. Shepard creates these videos regularly, and most of them are entirely forgettable. Last week, however, Focus unveiled a new video, asking politically-conservative Christians to pray for rain on Aug. 28, […]
For a few months, I’ve been corresponding with a friend and regular reader, “Zeitgeist,” who insists that Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is Levitra Ohne Rezept Kaufen , without a doubt, the single craziest member of the House of Representatives. I usually respond by pointing to Rep. Michele Bachmann, the infamous Minnesota Republican. Given recent events, […]
It’s been about two weeks since the Justice Department’s inspector general released a report on the unprecedented politicization of employment practices at the Justice Department. The IG report concluded that disgraced officials such as Monica Goodling and former chief of staff D. Kyle Sampson “routinely broke the law” by applying political litmus tests, even when […]
I’m not entirely clear on whether we’re supposed to call them “Obamacans” or “Obamacons,” but either way, there’s a group of relatively high profile Republicans who, for a variety of reasons, are supporting Barack Obama. As of this morning, that group includes a prominent former House Republican. Former U.S. Rep. Jim Leach, a leading Republican […]