I understand the point, but this is just odd. New federal guidelines ask all females capable of conceiving a baby to treat themselves — and to be treated by the health care system — as pre-pregnant, regardless of whether they plan to get pregnant anytime soon. Among other things, this means all women between first […]
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: * Yesterday was Primary Day in Kentucky, Oregon, and Pennsylvania. Among the interesting results: Gov. [tag]Ted Kulongoski[/tag] (D) and [tag]Ron Saxton[/tag] (R) won Oregon’s gubernatorial primaries; LEO newspaper founder [tag]John Yarmuth[/tag] (D) cruised […]
Yesterday, Dick [tag]Cheney[/tag] made his third appearance on Rush [tag]Limbaugh[/tag]’s radio show. On the surface, it’s disconcerting enough that the Vice President would voluntarily appear on this clown’s program three times, but in this instance, that’s not the interesting part. Instead, it’s worth noting that Cheney was on for 13 minutes — and there wasn’t […]
Let’s take a second to review. [tag]USA Today[/tag] reported that the [tag]NSA[/tag] has created a massive [tag]database[/tag] with [tag]phone[/tag] records of nearly every call made in the United States. [tag]Qwest[/tag] did not cooperate, but acknowledged that the NSA asked the company to turn over the records and pressured Qwest pretty hard. Over the last several […]
The day after the [tag]president[/tag] talked directly to the nation about his [tag]immigration[/tag] proposal, lawmakers started sharing their assessments. Congressional [tag]Republicans[/tag], particularly in the [tag]House[/tag], were Bush’s target audience. Were they persuaded? Not so much. President Bush’s prime-time immigration speech has shown no signs of softening House Republicans’ opposition to allowing undocumented immigrants to become […]
One more comment about [tag]Tony Snow[/tag]’s first press briefing. There was one exchange that helped highlight just how well Snow will fit in at the Bush White House. A reporter asked about declassifying the [tag]NSA[/tag] phone-records database program, which prompted [tag]Snow[/tag] to point to public opinion as a gauge of the story’s significance. “Look at […]
Several reporters praised [tag]Tony Snow[/tag]’s first [tag]White House[/tag] press briefing, but there was one comment that might need some clarification. A reporter asked [tag]Snow[/tag] about why the White House was reluctant to talk about the NSA’s phone-record database program. Snow said: “I don’t want to hug the [tag]tar baby[/tag] of trying to comment on the […]
Today was Tony Snow’s first day behind the briefing room podium. How’d it go? Well, after Helen Thomas asked about the NSA monitoring millions of Americans’ phone calls, possibly illegally, Snow gave a rather predictable response. “What’s interesting is, there seems to be a notion that because the president has talked a little bit about […]
We haven’t heard much from the burgeoning “[tag]religious left[/tag]” in the context of the midterm elections, but there’s at least one group that hopes to change this — starting tomorrow. A conference geared to help [tag]Democrats[/tag] infuse [tag]God[/tag] into their politics begins tomorrow at All Souls Unitarian Church in [DC] with the unveiling of a […]
Last month, [tag]Americans United for Change[/tag], a liberal group with increasing significance, unveiled a pretty tough TV ad on the security of U.S. ports. According to a report in Roll Call, this month, Americans United is going after Bush on national security. As [tag]Americans United[/tag] waits with bated breath to see whether President Bush’s brain, […]