This struck me as unusually annoying. At a ceremony honoring America’s first president at his Mount Vernon estate, President Bush praised George Washington’s leadership in the American Revolution and drew parallels between that war and the war in Iraq. […] In his official proclamation of Washington’s 275th Birthday, Bush said the first president would see […]
John McCain raised a few eyebrows over the weekend when he told a large South Carolina audience, “I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned.” Now, as Carpetbagger regulars know, McCain has been all over the map on this one. During his first presidential campaign, in 2000, McCain told reporters that “in […]
The Examiner’s Bill Sammon raised an idea that hadn’t occurred to me: “If Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the presidency, some top Democrats would like to see her husband, former President Bill Clinton, appointed to serve out Hillary’s unexpired Senate term.” Such a scenario is not beyond the realm of possibility now that the governor’s mansion […]
When it comes to combating global terrorism, going after al Qaeda with as much aggression and tenacity as possible is an obvious no-brainer. The terrorist network was directly responsible for the attacks of 9/11, among others, and has reportedly been a top administration target for the last five years. Except, like the rest of the […]
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: * Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), whose 2008 support would be a coup for any GOP contender, seems to favor Mitt Romney and has been steering some of his closest advisers to […]
Matt Stoller caused a bit of a stir over the weekend with a provocative post about Senate Dems and opposition to the war in Iraq. After the latest GOP obstructionism blocked consideration of an anti-escalation resolution on Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid allowed the chamber to go into recess, which it had been scheduled […]
The incident started off in one, fairly benign, direction. Former Massachusetts Gov. and presidential hopeful Mitt Romney (R) was campaigning at the Lake Miona Regional Recreation Center in The Villages, Florida, generally considered a GOP stronghold. An anti-Mormon loud mouth blasted Romney for his faith. “You, sir, are a pretender,” the guy said. “You don’t […]
Following up on the last post, the WaPo’s Anne Hull and Dana Priest added the second of their two-part series today on the outrageous way in which wounded veterans are treated as outpatients at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Alas, the second was as disheartening as the first. Dell McLeod’s injury was utterly banal. […]
I remember, several years ago, seeing “Born on the Fourth of July,” and watching Tom Cruise’s character, who had been seriously wounded in Vietnam, come back to the U.S., only to get stuck and mistreated in a rat-infested veterans hospital. Cruise was disgusted. “This place is a fu**in’ slum!” he’d say. The movie was fiction, […]
One of the pressing questions in the 2004 Democratic primaries was how best to deal with the 2002 votes of Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards on the Iraq war resolution. Would they acknowledge that the votes were a mistake? Would they apologize? Was this a litmus-test issue for voters? Should it be? When it […]