Some White House whoppers are so spectacular, so jaw-dropping, so breathtaking, that it’s genuinely hard to believe. For example, today, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow told reporters that “contrary to stereotype,” President Bush has been “actively engaged in trying to fight climate change.” (It’s true, TP has the video.) When a reporter noted that […]
There are different schools of thought on how best to respond to dishonest and sleazy White House rhetoric. House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member (and would-be chairman) Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), confronted with Dick Cheney’s latest nonsense, took a rather confrontational approach. This isn’t exactly elementary school, but for what it’s worth, Cheney started it. […]
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: * It looks like we can just about stick a fork in Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.); he’s done. The latest Temple/Inquirer poll shows Bob Casey (D) leading the incumbent, 54% to 38%. A […]
We’ve known for a long while that [tag]abstinence[/tag]-only policies, promoted and funded through the Bush administration towards America’s teens, are costly, inaccurate, and ineffective. So, given the Bush gang’s record, it should come as no surprise that these same policies are now being directed towards adults. Now the government is targeting unmarried adults up to […]
Josh Marshall noted this morning with the election just seven days away, the GOP’s “desperation will be ferocious. Imagine everything from the last six years rolled into one toxic week. An electoral gauntlet of hacking knives and fire.” And it starts, of course, with the president’s overheated rhetoric. We seem to be building towards some […]
When Chris Matthews recently described the national media as John McCain’s “base,” he really wasn’t kidding. In her latest column, posted online on October 29 and that will appear in the November 6 edition of U.S. News & World Report, U.S. News contributing editor and CBS News national political correspondent Gloria Borger asserted that “[n]o […]
With time running out and the race too close to call, Virginia Sen. George Allen (R) seemed to believe that he had found the knock-out punch: challenger Jim Webb (D) wrote a novel with some racy scenes 20 years ago, and highlighting them would turn voters away from the strong upstart candidate. How’s that working […]
Today’s edition of quick hits. * Watch The Decider become The Delegator. It’s nearly four years and the president never thought about applying the code of military conduct to hired guns? Please, watch the clip. * The reaction to “heated” the Wolf Blitzer/Lynne Cheney interview from the weekend continues to reverberate a bit. Blitzer gave […]
At first blush, this might sound predictable and inconsequential, but it deserves some close scrutiny. United States Senator Joseph I. Lieberman won the backing of a top Republican in the Senate on Friday [Oct. 20] as Howard Dean traveled here to rally Democrats behind Ned Lamont’s effort to unseat Mr. Lieberman. […] Mr. Lieberman appeared […]
About a week ago, I mentioned that Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) compared Democrats to Nazi appeasers and suggested the only thing standing between the United States and some kind of terrorist-based fascism is his re-election. Not quite content with embarrassing himself last week, Santorum decided to push the envelope just a little further over the […]