Sen. Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum, at least at first, was prepared to take a bold stand against Bush’s plan to gut funding for Amtrak. In late February, Santorum appeared on Meet the Press and said the White House budget for the system was “not acceptable to me” and predicted it would not pass. True […]
My new daily feature about campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Bush’s home-town mayor, Crawford’s Robert Campbell, will not seek re-election, an announcement that comes just six months after the mayor publicly endorsed John Kerry’s presidential campaign. Campbell says his departure […]
Just to follow up on the earlier post about the cracks in Tom DeLay’s once-solid façade, consider this admonishment in a major newspaper editorial today: The problem…is that Mr. DeLay, who rode to power in 1994 on a wave of revulsion at the everyday ways of big government, has become the living exemplar of some […]
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist didn’t hesitate to offer his “professional” medical opinion about Terri Schiavo — despite the fact that she has never been his patient and he’s never even been in the same room as her. But as long as Dr. Frist is diagnosing people without having seen them, some shrewd critics have […]
Questions about pharmacists’ inability to dispense medications they don’t like have been around for a couple of years, but this front-page treatment in the Washington Post should kick things up again. Some pharmacists across the country are refusing to fill prescriptions for birth control and morning-after pills, saying that dispensing the medications violates their personal […]
Shailagh Murray and Mike Allen had a good piece over the weekend about the effect the Schiavo controversy was having on Tom DeLay, but one quote seemed particularly noteworthy. The article noted two primary elements that should concern the House Majority Leader. One is the problem of DeLay thrusting himself into the national spotlight — […]
Rumor has it that Jeb Bush was always the responsible sibling, while George W. Bush was unreliable and undisciplined one. It’s funny how sometimes the reckless brother can be a bad influence on the mature one. At the same time one of Florida’s most visible television reporters brought the news to viewers around the state, […]
Guest Post by Morbo Proponents of so-called “faith-based” initiatives insist that religious organizations provide social services more efficiently than secular or government-based providers. To them, religion is always a good thing and taxpayers should have no fear of paying for its promulgation. A recent Associated Press story from Charlotte, N.C., dramatically underscores what’s wrong with […]
Guest Post by Morbo The same right-wingers who brought you creation science and proclaim that global warming is a myth are now promoting a new pseudo-science: The assertion that Terri Schiavo can be brought out of her vegetative state and restored to a meaningful life. In promoting this view, congressional GOP members cynically exploit a […]
Guest Post by Morbo I have bad news for anyone reading this: Eventually, you are going to grow old and die. I hate to be a downer, but here’s another news flash that won’t exactly make your day: You could, later today, be driving back from the grocery store when an intoxicated person driving an […]