If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you’ve hopefully come to expect this. If you’re new, welcome; we do this every Friday afternoon. It’s my weekly round-up of statewide presidential polls released over the last seven days. This week isn’t quite as big as last week, but there’s still some encouraging data that […]
I didn’t mind Lehrer going solo for the debates in 2000 and 1996, but this year, he’s getting some help. Jim Lehrer, host of PBS’s “News Hour,” will be a moderator for the presidential debates, but unlike past election years, he will divide the work with ABC’s Charlie Gibson and CBS’s Bob Schieffer. The Commission […]
I can appreciate the fact that Republicans probably get a little tired of calling someone a “liberal.” It’s their own fault; they’ve used it too much and the word has lost its meaning. Sure, the GOP had some fun with it in the ’80s and it worked against Mondale and Dukakis. “Liberal” became a dirty […]
I got a tip from my friend Phil that Sean Hannity — yes, that Sean Hannity — criticized Bush for sitting and reading “My Pet Goat” for seven minutes after being told that the country is under attack. As hard as it was to believe Hannity would do such a thing, I checked the transcript. […]
Dick “Go F— Yourself” Cheney must really be getting desperate. The Republican attack on John F. Kerry over terrorism and Iraq escalated Thursday, led by Vice President Cheney, who mocked the Democratic nominee for saying he would wage a more sensitive war on terrorism and accused him of seeing the world as if the attacks […]
A Washington Post item yesterday about a new “group” attacking John Kerry on black radio stations was offensive on several levels. One of the radio ads addresses Kerry’s failure to vote on a bill to extend unemployment benefits for 13 weeks: “It needed 60 votes to pass. Ninety-nine out of 100 senators voted — Kerry […]
In an effort to defend Bush’s ridiculous (and recklessly dishonest) stem-cell research policy, BC04 arranged for two senators to defend the president’s policy. At a time when polls show overwhelming support for the research, Sens. Gordon Smith (Ore.) and Trent Lott (Miss.) expressed concern that Bush is not receiving his due for allowing some federally […]
When Bush told his supporters this week that “real rich people figure out how to dodge taxes,” he wasn’t kidding. But it’s not so much a “dodge,” as it is intentional White House tax policies that give millionaires a windfall. To give credit where credit is due, Al Gore did warn us. Four years ago, […]
The Wall Street Journal’s Jackie Calmes caught another fun one for the Bushism file. Bush, on Monday: “Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.” The ironic thing is, Bush, champion of the Patriot Act, may actually agree with such a […]
The Bush administration has never really been able to come up with a reasonable defense for its opposition to the reimportation of prescription medication. The truth — the administration is doing the bidding of wealthy pharmaceutical companies that donate generously to his campaign — probably wouldn’t go over well with the public, so they desperately […]