Way back on Jan. 4, Scott McClellan promised reporters a “thorough report” on Jack Abramoff’s [tag]White House[/tag] contacts “very soon.” That, of course, never happened, but we’ve slowly begun to learn about the access the disgraced lobbyist had to the White House anyway. In May, the [tag]Secret Service[/tag] released logs showing just two [tag]Abramoff[/tag] visits […]
What’s with the fascination among Republican leaders about electricity in Baghdad? Yesterday, during his Chicago press conference, Bush said: “We occasionally are able to pop in with great success, like Zarqawi or 12 million people voting. But increasing electricity in Baghdad is not the kind of thing that tends to get on the news.” It’s […]
It was an usually busy Week in God, so let’s get started. First up from the God machine is an update on a story we’ve covered a couple of times. Army Sgt. Patrick D. Stewart was killed in Afghanistan on Sept. 25, 2005, when his CH-47 Chinook helicopter was shot down by enemy fire. A […]
Guest Post by Morbo If he loses the Democratic primary election, Sen. Joseph Lieberman has vowed to run as an independent. While making this promise, he had the gall to invoke the name of a Democratic Party saint: President John F. Kennedy. “I have been a proud, loyal and progressive Democrat since John F. Kennedy […]
Guest Post by Morbo A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about nutcase fundamentalist Christians claiming to have found [tag]Noah’s Ark[/tag] — again. Of course it’s a crock, and now the National Geographic has kindly pointed that out. You have to read to the end to get to the good stuff, but here’s the […]
As part of his not-so-exciting new public relations strategy, the [tag]president[/tag] hosted an hour-long press conference from Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry this morning. It was more or less like any White House [tag]press conference[/tag], except there were some local reporters on hand. Most of the exchanges were pretty predictable — Bush filibustered to […]
I continue to believe, perhaps mistakenly, that the GOP phone-jamming scandal in New Hampshire is a bigger deal than the attention it’s been getting. To follow up on last month’s item about the White House’s possible connection to the controversy, a new report suggests one of the indicted phone jammers may end up pointing the […]
In the kind of hard-hitting interview Bush prefers, the president answered questions this week from People magazine (via TP). It was mostly harmless fluff about exercise and family, but People did ask Bush whether he believes Al Gore is right about global warming. “I think we have a problem on global warming. I think there […]
It’s a shame when current events make one cynical, and it’s tempting to see stories like this one as nothing but a big win for the United States, but there’s that gnawing skepticism that comes from a series of similar announcements that weren’t what they appeared to be. U.S. and Lebanese agents have foiled terrorist […]
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: * [tag]Scott Howell[/tag] has made some highly noteworthy campaign ads lately. In 2004, he helped orchestrate the Swiftboat smear against Kerry. In 2005, he created TV ads against Tim Kaine in Virginia, claiming […]