We don’t know whether Dems are going to do well in just nine days, but let’s say, just for the sake of discussion, that Dems do well enough to reclaim the majority in at least one chamber. With nearly all of the political establishment, on both sides of the aisle now expecting this to happen, […]
The Washington Post ran a front-page piece today on the Virginia Senate race, and Sen. George Allen’s (R-Va.) new cudgel against Jim Webb (D) — some racy text from Webb’s fictional novels written many years ago. We talked yesterday about the merit of the charge, but there was a small tidbit in the WaPo piece […]
I recently saw someone joke about how best to blame Clinton for all of Bush’s mistakes, but when they got to the biggest budget deficits in U.S. history, after Clinton had left Bush the biggest budget surpluses in U.S. history, the joke stumbled. No serious person could come up with any way to blame the […]
If you haven’t already seen it, Lynne Cheney’s appearance on CNN yesterday — which was, shall we say, “combative” — is well worth watching. Lynne Cheney repeatedly attacked CNN for having a liberal bias during a fiery and combative appearance today on the Situation Room. Cheney said a CNN special that aired yesterday was a […]
First up from the God machine is an interesting poll gauging support for “faith-based” funding among the one constituency that’s supposed to support it most. Half of the nation’s evangelical Christians do not support government funding of faith-based organizations, a survey shows. New data released Wednesday (Oct. 25) from the Baylor Religion Survey show that […]
Guest Post by Morbo Amy Sullivan, a moderate Christian whose writing pops up in places like The Washington Monthly, Salon and The New Republic, thinks the Democrats have not exploited former White House Faith-Based Office staffer David Kuo’s revelations as much as they could. In a New Republic online piece Sullivan writes: The problem is […]
Guest Post by Morbo Some of you might not like what I have to say today. Some of you might even accuse me of having my head up my posterior, as occurred last week. But hey — you don’t come here to be bored, right? Here it goes: Comic books aren’t literature. I bring this […]
Guest Post by Morbo Modern technology can be a blessing and a curse for today’s political hopefuls. On the one hand, e-mail and websites enable candidates to communicate quickly and effectively with supporters, keeping them abreast of breaking news and even making it easier to solicit financial support. But there is a dark side as […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * It may sound like a harsh sentence, but former Bush administration official David Safavian was sentenced to 18 months in prison this afternoon for lying and obstructing justice in connection with the Abramoff scandal. He was facing 20 years. * We learned two weeks ago that the verdict (and […]
The WaPos’ Michael Grunwald wrote a terrific front-page piece today on many of us have found to be an increasingly disturbing pattern: this year’s campaign ads are some of the most egregious in recent memory. On the brink of what could be a power-shifting election, it is kitchen-sink time: Desperate candidates are throwing everything. While […]