Think Progress compiled a terrific list this week on the right’s myths regarding the Plame scandal. Point by point, the list explains what conservatives say to dismiss the seriousness of the scandal and why they’re wrong. It’s a handy resource. But even the clever folks at Think Progress couldn’t have anticipated what Roll Call’s Mort […]
A few months ago, Jonathan Chait wrote an interesting column explaining that those who work in the Bush administration, but later work up the courage to criticize it, inevitably (and mysteriously) reverse course. “Most presidents have to face betrayal sooner or later,” Chait said. “What’s uncanny about the Bush administration is that its dissidents invariably […]
To appreciate the Plame-inspired desperation in the West Wing, look no further than the way in which (and the speed with which) White House aides are turning on one another. The long knives are out for Andy Card, top officials in Cheney’s office are cooperating with Patrick Fitzgerald, and Karl Rove’s lawyers are frantically pointing […]
In her initial response to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Harriet Miers acknowledged that her law license in the District of Columbia was suspended this year after she failed to pay dues to the DC Bar Association. For someone who was serving as White House counsel at the time, it’s not encouraging sign. Making […]
Few outside Patrick Fitzgerald’s office know what’s going to happen next, but in the meantime, experiencing schadenfreude from watching the once-arrogant Bush gang cringe is almost inevitable. The Chicago Tribune quoted one senior administration official saying the reports about possible indictments have been “like Novocain,” apparently because of their numbing effect on the White House. […]
If Bush’s drive to privatize Social Security was a fiasco because no one liked it, just wait until American start hearing Bush’s ideas about “tax reform.” President Bush’s tax advisory commission agreed on Tuesday to recommend two alternative plans, both of which would limit or eliminate almost all existing tax deductions, including those for state […]
Conservative critics of Harriet Miers have questioned her reliability on bringing a right-wing worldview to the Supreme Court. Yesterday, those same conservatives learned that Miers publicly pledged in 1989 to “actively support” a constitutional amendment to ban abortion. Has this improved her standing in the conservative community? That depends entirely on whom you ask. Some […]
Republicans in Georgia went way too far earlier this year with a new “voter-identification law” that forces Georgians without driver’s licenses (disproportionately poor, black and elderly) to pay up to $35 for a state ID card. The city of Atlanta, with a large African-American population, did not have a single facility where the cards are […]
If you’ve been waiting patiently for a genuine what-did-Bush-know-and-when-did-he-know-it moment, it’s arrived. The New York Daily News reports today that the president has known for two years that the man he affectionately calls “Turd Blossom” was very much involved with the Plame leak. An angry President Bush rebuked chief political guru Karl Rove two years […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * According to Strategic Vision, a Republican polling firm, Bob Casey’s lead over Rick Santorum in Pennsylvania just keeps growing. According to the survey, conducted over the weekend, Casey leads by 16 points, […]