The president’s Veterans’ Day speech, apparently part of a new White House offensive against, well, everyone who doesn’t agree entirely with everything Bush believes, generated plenty of media attention, but probably not the kind the Bush gang had hoped for. The Washington Post made it clear — on the front page — that the president […]
Guest Post by Morbo I take it as a given that George W. Bush will be remembered as the worst president of the modern era, which I’m defining here as post-World War II. But lately I’ve been wondering if a case can be made that he’s the worst president ever in American history. I do […]
Guest Post by Morbo Another week, another appalling story about government-sanctioned torture in “The New Yorker.” This one comes courtesy of writer Jane Mayer. She writes about Iraqi insurgent Manadel al-Jamadi, who died in Abu Ghraib prison at the hands of the CIA in November of 2003. The subtitle of Mayer’s article is “Can the […]
Guest Post by Morbo Back in July, I criticized a Roman Catholic cardinal, Christoph Schonborn, for writing an opinion piece defending “intelligent design.” I asserted that Schonborn was dragging the church back to its anti-intellectual past. In an effort to be “fair and balanced,” I must note that not all church cardinals are behaving like […]
Guest Post by Morbo It has come to this: The gang at the Republican Party Media Relations Office — I’m sorry, I mean “Fox News Channel” — is so desperate to whip up claims that Christmas is under attack that it actually undertook a campaign to turn a routine and benign calendar change into a […]
Guest Post by Morbo There’s not much to be said about Tuesday’s elections that the ‘Bagger hasn’t already covered, but I wanted to add a few thoughts on my favorite outcome of the night. There was much to like: A slate of creationist kooks went down in Dover, Pa. In California, Gov. Steroidinator saw the […]
The last week in October was described far and wide as “the worst week of George W. Bush’s presidency.” There was plenty to warrant the description — Scooter Libby was indicted, Harriet Miers’ nomination came to a humiliating end, the war in Iraq produced its 2,000th U.S. casualty, the polls showed Bush’s support in freefall, […]
White House aides leaked word to reporters yesterday that Bush would exploit Veterans Day this afternoon with a blistering partisan speech in Pennsylvania. “It will be the most direct refutation of the Democrat charges you’ve seen probably since the election,” one official said But the description wasn’t quite right. It would have been more accurate […]
After several weeks of hiding, Karl Rove reemerged last night, delivering a largely predictable speech to the Federalist Society on the scourge of “activist” judges. To hear Rove’s allies tell it, after not being indicted by Patrick Fitzgerald, he’s back to his old self. “I’ve noticed a big difference,” said one Republican in regular contact […]
Call me crazy, but I think there’s something deeply amusing about the fact that Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), perhaps the most socially conservative member in the Senate, holds hearings with the most explicit sexual content on the Hill. “I think most Americans agree and know that pornography is bad. They know that it involves exploitive […]