As you’ve hopefully come to expect on Friday afternoons, it’s time for everyone’s favorite weekly feature — Poll Day. As always, these are the statewide presidential polls released over the last seven days. West Virginia (5 electoral votes) Mason-Dixon — Kerry 47, Bush 41 Comment: This is definitely the poll of the week. After months […]
I didn’t realize they were this desperate. The same federal lawmakers who can’t figure out how to pass a federal budget have decided to take up several constitutional amendments between now and the end of the session. It’s a sad but predictable desperation ploy — when in doubt, promise to tinker with the Constitution. It […]
Just to follow-up on a post from earlier this week, Bob Novak had an interesting column a couple of days ago (brought to my attention by my friend Phil) about conservatives complaining about Bush’s campaign ads. After a Memorial Day spent campaigning in his district, a Republican House member turned on the television Monday night […]
The Bush campaign’s decision to play with the nominated calendar is not without consequences. In an attempt to shamelessly exploit the third anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the GOP has moved the Republican National Convention as far into September as any party ever has. It caused a few logistical headaches in several states that have […]
This was a flip-flop that was almost inevitable. The president who claims to mean what he says is suddenly finding that his opposition to a federal tobacco buyout may not be “operative” for a successful campaign. Bush’s hostility for the buyout sounded unambiguous about a month ago. In Ohio, Bush received a question about the […]
One of the White House corruption scandals that’s been simmering just below the surface deals with a very suspicious contract the administration struck with Boeing. The Air Force negotiated a contract to lease refueling aircraft from Boeing Co. that could cost hundreds of millions to several billions of dollars more than it should, and followed […]
The Washington Post’s Mike Allen has a good follow-up item today about Bush “meeting” with an attorney as part of the Plame Game scandal. As Allen hints, there are quite a few unanswered questions. President Bush said yesterday that he plans to personally cooperate with the investigation into the leak of an undercover CIA officer’s […]
Forgive me for a quick non-political story, but I can’t resist this one. The Television Critics Association announced its nominees yesterday for the best programs of the past year. There was one category, however, that jumped out at me. In the category of outstanding achievement in news and information, the nominees are ABC’s “Nightline,” CBS’s […]
I thought John Kerry captured the problem with the Bush administration’s stop-loss orders perfectly this week. Democrat John Kerry on Thursday accused President Bush of creating a “backdoor draft” by requiring thousands of soldiers to remain in the military if their tours of duty extend to Iraq or Afghanistan. A day after the Army delivered […]
Funny what a couple of years and an international debacle will do to one’s political perspective. In 2002, the White House told Republicans to make the war in Iraq the centerpiece of congressional campaigns everywhere. In 2004, Republicans in Congress don’t want anything to do with the war and are hinting that Bush is on […]