Last week, I expressed some amazement at the RNC’s willingness to not only broadcast an attack ad they knew to be false, but also to stand by it, even after it had been exposed as a patently dishonest. Over the weekend, we learned of yet another example. Both major-party candidates for a congressional seat are […]
Once in a great while, Bush administration officials make a terrible mistake — they accidentally tell the truth. Over the weekend, [tag]Alberto Fernandez[/tag], director of public diplomacy in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department, offered an “unusually candid” assessment of America’s war in Iraq. In an interview with Al-Jazeera television, Fernandez […]
It’s not altogether reassuring that the president frequently reminds me of the Black Knight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Told he’s just lost an arm in battle, the [tag]Black Knight[/tag] is incredulous. After losing another, King Arthur says, “You’ve got no arms left.” The Black Knight responds, “Yes I have.” Arthur looks at […]
David Kuo’s new book, “Tempting Faith,” has generated considerable buzz in the political world, but a regular reader, Stephen, emailed me the other day with an angle that seems to have been largely overlooked. I have to admit I’m a little torn inside. I’ve been reading (and you’ve been blogging) for years about the dangerous […]
Guest Post by Morbo Some Religious Right activists are so intolerant of gays that they are advocating purging them from the party’s leadership and government posts. I agree wholeheartedly. In fact, why stop there? There should be no gays in the rank-and-file GOP either. Let’s face it, gay people have no business being in the […]
Guest Post by Morbo I don’t really want to eat a horseburger. Truly, I don’t. I’ll also pass on horse steak, horse barbeque and deep-fried horse nuggets. But at the same time, I’m not losing any sleep over the people in Europe and Japan who do want to eat horseburgers — and I can only […]
Guest Post by Morbo The Christian Coalition, a Religious Right group founded by TV preacher Pat Robertson in 1989, was a pretty big deal in the mid 1990s but has pretty much slipped into irrelevance these days. In a bid to regain some political traction, the organization, now run by Robertson associate Roberta Combs in […]
Just to let readers know, I’m going to be stepping away from my desk for the next 48 hours. Never fear, I have back-up. I’ve recruited The Reaction‘s Michael J.W. Stickings to, once again, help out in my absence. As regular readers know, Michael has done some great work filling in for me a few […]
Matt Taibbi’s cover-story in Rolling Stone on the Republican Congress is even better than I thought it’d be. These past six years were more than just the most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch. These were the years when the U.S. parliament became a historical punch line, a […]
To reiterate a point I raised the other day, if the midterm elections go as badly for the GOP as they could, the Republican Party is going to spend quite a bit of time in the aftermath tearing each other apart. Tax-cutters are calling evangelicals bullies. Christian conservatives say Republicans in Congress have let them […]