Good news and bad news today on the [tag]global warming[/tag] front. First, the good news. Britain and California are preparing to sidestep the Bush administration and fight global warming together by creating a joint market for greenhouse gases. British Prime Minister [tag]Tony Blair[/tag] and California Gov. [tag]Arnold Schwarzenegger[/tag] plan to lay the groundwork for a […]
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: * With just over a week before the Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut, some major newspaper endorsements ran. The state’s two largest newspapers, the Hartford Courant and Connecticut Post both ran editorials backing […]
Every time I read about young conservative activists getting together at some organized event, I get a little less optimistic about the future. The New York Times took a fascinating look today at college-age conservatives who go to month-long retreats and conferences some attendees affectionately call “conservative boot camp.” The piece featured a retreat run […]
[tag]Lee Bandy[/tag], South Carolina’s legendary political reporter, had an interesting item today about how [tag]Republicans[/tag] have used the “[tag]tax-and-spend[/tag] [tag]liberal[/tag]” label so often, it’s reached the point that it no longer has any real meaning — or salience. “They’ve used it so often that they’ve milked all the meaning out of the phrase,” says Francis […]
[tag]Senate Intelligence Committee[/tag] Chairman [tag]Pat Roberts[/tag] (R-Kan.) has been playing a very annoying game for an embarrassingly long time. Initially, the committee was prepared to release a comprehensive report on pre-[tag]war[/tag] [tag]intelligence[/tag], what it said, and how it was handled. Then Roberts split the report in two — one on how wrong the intelligence was […]
Karl Rove spoke at my alma mater over the weekend, and delivered a couple of gems that were so jaw-dropping, it’s hard to believe he’d have the gall to say them out loud. Of course, we are talking about [tag]Karl Rove[/tag]. “It’s odd to me that most of these critics [of political professionals] are [tag]journalists[/tag] […]
The growing push-back against trying a conservative partisanship and [tag]Christianity[/tag] is hard to miss. Earlier this month, for example, progressive religious leaders such as Bob Edgar, Tony Campolo, and Jim Wallis argued, “We are furious that the religious right has made [tag]Jesus[/tag] into a [tag]Republican[/tag]. That’s idolatry. To recreate Jesus in your own image rather […]
July’s almost over, Congress starts a five-week summer break tomorrow, and Bush seems to have some kind of moral objection to working in the month of August, so let’s take on a slightly less serious discussion-group topic today, shall we? National Review’s John J. Miller recently published what he labeled the “50 greatest conservative rock […]
If you have time, I’d really encourage readers to watch the video of yesterday’s press conference with Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. A link to the video is on the White House transcript. The president doesn’t hold many press conferences, so it’s sometimes easy to forget just how difficult it is for him […]
As expected, one of the more shameless GOP stunts in a while passes the House last night, by a fairly narrow vote. The House approved an increase in the federal minimum wage on Saturday, but its future was clouded because Republicans tied the pay change to an estate tax cut that had been blocked in […]