Posted by Morbo Morbo begs your indulgence for speaking so bluntly, but aren’t some of the things the Republicans want to do to this country fundamentally un-American? Take “tort reform” for example. Tort reform is a fancy name for taking away the right of Americans to sue big business over certain issues. This is a […]
Posted by Morbo Morbo would like to follow up on the Carpetbagger’s recent post about Armstrong Williams and the revelations that he accepted $241,000 from the U.S. Education Department to promote the No Child Left Behind Act in his newspaper column and in broadcasts. I believe I have a fresh perspective to add because, unlike […]
The Bush gang only knows how to run one play. It’s a pretty good play, and it’s been effective for them, but it’s a play suited for a particular kind of opponent. President Bush plans to reactivate his reelection campaign’s network of donors and activists to build pressure on lawmakers to allow workers to invest […]
Dems would probably be wise to look to the south and give up, at least on the presidential level, on states like Mississippi and Alabama. But, as I’ve emphasized before, not all southern states are created equal. Consider one of the two states with gubernatorial races this year: Virginia. To be sure, this is, and […]
Following up on the earlier item about Orrin Hatch’s support for the “nuclear option,” which would rewrite the Senate’s filibuster rules to prevent Dems from blocking Bush’s more extreme judicial nominees, it appears that there’s a good reason the tactic hasn’t been tried yet: Republicans may not have the votes. Last week, Congressional Quarterly reported […]
The growing body of Dems who would, at a minimum, consider changing the primary calendar lost an ally yesterday — Howard Dean. Howard Dean lost the Iowa caucuses a year ago, but that doesn’t mean he wants to dump them as the first presidential nominating event in 2008 if he’s elected chairman of the Democratic […]
A rift seems to have developed of late between those who see the race for the DNC chairperson job as the most important decision the party could possibly make vs. those who see the race — and the job — as fairly meaningless. I don’t usually care for a split-the-difference approach, but I find myself […]
At this point, virtually no one is trying to defend the Bush administration’s use of $241,000 — of our money — to pay Armstrong Williams. It’s the first Bush debacle in a long time that Republicans everywhere have been willing to criticize. That is, except for one. To recap the opposition, Rep. John Boehner, an […]
If you haven’t seen Orrin Hatch’s article in the National Review on Bush’s judicial nominees and Dem filibusters, you should definitely take a look. Kevin Drum accuses Hatch of using a “self-servingly selective memory.” If anything, that’s putting it mildly. The entire diatribe is a lengthy mess, filled with contradictions, distortions, and errors of fact, […]
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, the new chair of the DCCC, seems to have stumbled upon an interesting twist in the Bush administration’s opposition to reimportation of prescription medication: cows. At this point, the administration believes the U.S. should continue to import Canadian beef, despite recent incidents of mad-cow disease. Simultaneously, the administration believes the U.S. cannot […]