Like Atrios, I think the local report in Texas offered the best perspective on what transpired this morning. State District Judge Joe Hart ruled Thursday that Texans for a Republican Majority violated state campaign law when it failed to disclose more than a half-million dollars in corporate contributions during the 2002 state legislative elections. Hart, […]
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: * Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) formally announced yesterday that he will run in 2006 for the seat being vacated by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R). He’ll face State Sen. Rosalind Kurita (D) […]
When Bush first publicly threatened to veto the Castle-DeGette stem-cell legislation, the idea was the power of his warning would intimidate the House to back down. It didn’t work — 50 House Republican joined 187 Dems in passing the bill. So Bush tried again yesterday, insisting that he’s inflexible about supporting the potentially life-saving research. […]
I was catching up on some TV the other day and caught Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America, on PBS’ “NOW” with David Brancaccio. (C&L has a clip from the show.) There was one part of the interview that was stunning, even by today’s religious right standards. Brancaccio: So in my efforts […]
Last month, in one of those a-little-too-candid moments, Harry Reid told reporters that “it would take a miracle” for Dems to pick up five senate seats in 2006 and get back to a 50-50 split. In an interesting interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, […]
It was one of those silly examples that captured the absurdity of Republican politics perfectly. Rep. Walter Jones (R-N.C.) was frustrated that France was opposed to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, so he thought it’d be a poignant gesture to change the name of “french fries” to “freedom fries” in the House dining hall. After […]
In the unlikely event you haven’t seen this elsewhere, I wanted to highlight one of the more amusing Freudian slips in a long while, by way of our friends at the Fox News Channel. Media Matters reported that Fox News anchor David Asman was interviewing Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) yesterday, inquiring as to why the […]
(Editor’s Note: The Carpetbagger Report, as regular readers know, has joined the Coalition for Darfur, a bi-partisan online initiative created to raise awareness and resources to address the crisis. This is the latest in a series of posts from the Coalition.) A few weeks ago, PBS aired a made-for-HBO film about the 1994 genocide in […]
Finally, a quote from the president, by way of Jacob Weisberg, that I truly understand. “See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.” — Bush in Greece, New York, yesterday What’s the definition […]
It’s not unusual for administrative agencies to squabble with Congress over appropriations, but the recent fights between Republican lawmakers and Bush’s Department of Homeland Security might speak to a bigger issue. Two recent appropriations bills passed by the Republican-controlled House include language scolding the Bush administration for its lack of responsiveness to repeated Congressional requests […]