OK, one more thing for the week. You’ll no doubt be hearing plenty over the weekend about the new Senate Intelligence Committee report that shifts blame away from the White House and onto the CIA for the multiple failures regarding Iraq. Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) was on the Today Show this morning and, with a […]
It’s time for my every-Friday feature — your favorite and mine — Poll Day. As always, these state-by-state poll results were released within the last seven days. Just as an aside, note that Rasmussen, which has been busy lately, does not include Nader in any of its surveys, even in states where his name will […]
Patriot Act critics in the House, led by Rep. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), had the votes to defeat the most controversial feature of the law — the power of the federal government to see what books people buy and check out at libraries. In fact, Sanders’ proposed change would have kept the power in the government’s […]
For the life of me, I can’t figure out the rationale behind the White House’s decision to decline — for the fourth straight year — the NAACP’s invitation to address its convention. A White House spokeswoman said Bush had a scheduling conflict, but would not specify the conflict with the six-day convention, which is scheduled […]
For a political party that seems to hate trial lawyers, Republicans sure are anxious to hire some. Dick “Go F— Yourself” Cheney hired a trial lawyer before speaking to federal investigators in the Plame Game scandal. George W. Bush hired one, too, for the same reason. And now House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, who tries […]
I noted earlier that the New York Times has learned that the military records that could explain where Bush was when he was supposed to be in the National Guard have been “inadvertently destroyed,” according to the Pentagon. While few find this explanation satisfactory, or even remotely credible, the Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin reminded readers […]
Forgive my obvious naïveté, but there’s something amazing to me about the Bush campaign’s capacity to state a falsehood, get caught, and then repeat it again anyway. Usually, even among Republicans, once you’re caught saying something that isn’t true, you drop it from your rhetorical repertoire. In 1992, for example, the first President Bush accused […]
With the vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment coming right up, opponents are playing hardball. With action on the Federal Marriage Amendment slated for next month, gay activists are renewing calls to “out” closeted members of Congress, as well as gay staffers who work for members who support the amendment. It is, to be sure, […]
We’ll be hearing a lot about this: The key U.S. assertions leading to the 2003 invasion of Iraq — that Saddam Hussein had chemical and biological weapons and was working to make nuclear weapons — were wrong and based on false or overstated CIA analyses, a scathing Senate Intelligence Committee report asserted Friday. Intelligence analysts […]
It’s come to this. The Illinois GOP, reeling after pushing Jack Ryan from his Senate campaign, is so desperate for a competitive candidate, they’re turning to Mike Dikta. I wish I were kidding. In the wake of Steve Rauschenberger’s withdrawal from the Illinois Senate race, former Chicago Bears coach Mike Ditka has surfaced as a […]