Following up on an item from last week, the religious right continues to be apoplectic about Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) speaking from Rick Warren’s pulpit at Saddleback Church in California, 30,000-member megachurch. The reaction is far more telling than the invitation. Warren and Obama apparently became friends last year, and have kept in touch. When […]
In the weeks leading up to the midterm elections, Republicans had embraced a simple, albeit foolish, explanation for violence in the Middle East: terrorists were following U.S. elections closely and were killing people in the hopes that voters would back Democrats. It was never a particularly coherent tack, but that was their story and they […]
Long-time readers know that I take a certain amount of pleasure in mocking South Florida, where I was born and raised. There’s just something uniquely ridiculous about Miami and its surrounding communities that makes the area prone to outlandish, not to mention absurd, circumstances. And when it comes to politics, South Florida is, quite literally, […]
The president has been busy in Eastern Europe this morning, making brief appearances in [tag]Latvia[/tag] and [tag]Estonia[/tag]. [tag]Bush[/tag] fielded a handful of questions about [tag]Iraq[/tag], but unfortunately, he didn’t have anything encouraging to say. “There’s one thing I’m not going to do, I’m not going to pull our troops off the battlefield before the mission […]
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: * In one of the handful of undecided House races, Rep. Deborah Pryce (R) was named the winner in Ohio’s 15th congressional district yesterday after provisional ballots were included in the overall total. […]
According to the “thermometer” poll released yesterday by Quinnipiac, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani, two of the leading GOP presidential contenders for 2008, are at or near the top of the list of the most popular political figures in the country. I’d argue that at least some, if not most, of this base of support […]
This probably won’t come as a big surprise to any of you, but it’s nevertheless helpful to have empirical data on the subject. (via Tom Tomorrow) A collective “I told you so” will ripple through the world of [tag]Bush[/tag]-bashers once news of Christopher Lohse’s study gets out. Lohse, a social work master’s student at Southern […]
One could very easily do a post every day highlighting the incoherent insanity on Rush Limbaugh’s daily radio show, but some days are clearly worse than others. Yesterday’s tirade on the Middle East, for example, was truly special. On the November 27 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, in response to claims made by […]
In the year-long debate over the president’s warrantless domestic surveillance program, the strangest controversy arose in June. Several dozen Democratic lawmakers contacted the Department of Justice, arguing that political appointees had given the White House questionable legal advice about the program. Dems asked the DOJ’s inspector general to review whether the legal advice was sound. […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Bush will reportedly let Donald Rumsfeld stay on as Defense secretary through Dec. 29 — so that he can break the record for the longest-serving Pentagon chief of all time. That’s a good reason, right? It’s not as if he were incompetently overseeing the most disastrous war in a […]