Sorry, it’s another day off. I’ll be back Monday with plenty of long-winded tirades for your reading pleasure. In the meantime, enjoy everyone’s favorite Friday feature — Poll Day. As is always the case, these state-by-state poll results were released within the last seven days. Florida (27 electoral votes) ARG — Bush 47, Kerry 47 […]
Let’s see, the House Speaker gets applauded by the GOP congressional caucus for criticizing the president. A leading GOP senator says the Dems are better at congressional oversight than Republicans. Several GOP House members criticize their own leadership for not having a policy agenda. The House Armed Services Committee chairman is accusing his Senate counterpart […]
I’ve been getting a little tired of the media spin that said John Kerry’s campaign is not where it should be. Various observers have been complaining about ads, message, staff, polls, etc. Mickey Kaus seems to have made it his life’s work to highlight every Democrat he can find who’s expressed a moment’s hesitation about […]
I don’t have anything particularly insightful to add to this, other than to express my utter dismay. Unitarian Universalists have for decades presided over births, marriages and memorials. The church operates in every state, with more than 5,000 members in Texas alone. But according to the office of Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn, a Denison […]
I’ve been wondering who’d crow and who’d cry after Bush and Senate Dems struck a deal on judicial nominees this week. It seemed to me that the compromise was pretty good for both sides — Bush got to fill 25 slots with non-controversial judges while Dems got assurances on recess appointments. If anything, it seemed […]
Jeez, is there anything about the Bush Medicare scheme that isn’t illegal? We already know that the administration appears to have broken the law by threatening HHS officials into silence about the real costs of the Medicare plan. Now we’ve learned that the propagandistic “video news releases,” prepared for TV stations to look like objective […]
It’s exchanges like this one that only feed the hype urging Kerry to tap McCain as a running mate. McCain recently questioned the wisdom of cutting taxes and fighting a war at the same time, an unprecedented stunt in American history. “Throughout our history, wartime has been a time of sacrifice…. What have we sacrificed?” […]
Internal Republican bickering over strategy and oversight is amusing because it’s largely inconsequential. Watching GOP leaders attack one another publicly over how to address military abuse policies, however, is more troubling than entertaining. On Monday, the Senate Armed Forces Committee announced relative bi-partisan support for doing the right thing: the Committee would thoroughly investigate the […]
Donald Rumsfeld, testifying under oath, to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee two weeks ago: So it seems to me that the ICRC report was helpful, and that the military command, as I understand it, undertook a series of corrections. Now, with respect to when were we knowledgeable of this, the situation was this: Specialist […]
I know the Wall Street Journal’s site is registration only, but there’s a really good item today concerning new questions about Bush’s leadership style and management abilities. As the piece explains, they create a White House environment that somehow manages to be efficient and dysfunctional at the same time. Bush’s style — delegate, express confidence, […]