It’s time for my every-Friday feature — your favorite and mine — Poll Day. As always, these state-by-state presidential poll results were released within the last seven days. Pay particular attention to Arizona, Missouri, Oregon, and Pennsylvania, where there’s some very encouraging news. Arizona (10 electoral votes) KAET/Arizona State — Kerry 42, Bush 41 The […]
You’ve almost certainly already read about this elsewhere, but since I’ve been obsessing over the court–stripping issue for months, I figured I should wrap the story up with an exclamation point. Now that the conservatives have been denied the opportunity to ban gay marriage, Congress’ loony right has decided it’ll pass a law to take […]
This is getting embarrassing. A few months ago, we learned that the Christian Coalition was having trouble paying its bills and is facing a lawsuit from a Virginia firm that helped the group struggle through a series of self-inflicted scandals. A local law firm has asked a judge to garnishee the assets of the Christian […]
Doonesbury just gets better and better. This week’s series on Fox News has been terrific, especially today’s.
Every few months, the GOP will try and convince the public that it really, really wants to boost the party’s weak support in the African-American community. Four years after black voters all but ignored George W. Bush at the ballot box, the Republican Party is still struggling to make itself more attractive to them and […]
When the Sandy Berger story first broke, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellen said he was just keeping apraised by what he saw in the papers. “What we’ve seen is, and what we know is what has been reported in the news media. It is apparently an investigation that is underway, and the questions are […]
Just a month ago, voters learned that the Bush campaign, in its infinite wisdom, wanted church goers to collect directories from their houses of worship for Bush’s benefit. The Bush-Cheney reelection campaign has sent a detailed plan of action to religious volunteers across the country asking them to turn over church directories to the campaign, […]
Here’s what we learned in April: Prince Bandar enjoys easy access to the Oval Office. His family and the Bush family are close. And Woodward told 60 Minutes that Bandar has promised the president that Saudi Arabia will lower oil prices in the months before the election — to ensure the U.S. economy is strong […]
You read that headline right. In a day full of really strange news, the White House’s opposition to a compromise tax cut plan in Congress had to be the most disturbing. House and Senate negotiators had a deal in place that would extend a series of middle-class tax cuts — including an increase in the […]
As the 9/11 Commission’s report goes public, nearly all of the analysis will emphasize the panel’s conclusions and recommendations. That is, of course, how it should be. But watching Bush receive the report this morning and offer his support for the Commission and its efforts is a little frustrating. Most seem to have forgotten that […]