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: * Activist Cindy Sheehan announced over the weekend that she’s considering a campaign against Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) this year, in part because Sheehan believes Feinstein has not been aggressive enough in opposing […]
I’ve long believed that hand-wringing over Howard Dean’s DNC fundraising is unnecessary. The DNC collected over $51 million last year, which was about half of what the RNC took in over the same period, but was far better than the DNC’s fundraising in the last off-year cycle (2003). Indeed, under Dean, the gap had actually […]
The WaPo’s Dan Balz noted a couple of interesting results in the latest Post/ABC poll, particularly about the public’s desire for a change in the national direction. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Bush with a lower approval rating than any postwar president at the start of his sixth year in office — with […]
It’s been 26 days since the Bush gang promised the public a “thorough report” on Jack Abramoff’s White House connections, but the president and his aides are no longer willing to talk about the subject. Who’s urging the White House to come clean? At this point, everyone. Democrats want the White House to come clean. […]
In case you missed it, there were a couple of items over the weekend that offered chilling takes on the looming environmental crisis caused by climate change. The WaPo explained we’re approaching a “tipping point.” Now that most scientists agree human activity is causing Earth to warm, the central debate has shifted to whether climate […]
The Bush administration has subtly acknowledged for weeks that the president’s warrantless-search program violates FISA, but, officials argue, the program is still lawful because of other presidential legal authorities. Last week, in response to a question from a reporter who asked why the president decided to “circumvent” FISA, Bush quickly summarized his perspective. “[T]he FISA […]
As a rule, I find talk about impeaching Bush to be an occasionally fun diversion, but little more. The focus for Bush’s critics should be on curtailing his agenda and winning as many elections as possible in November. With a Republican Congress, plotting the president’s removal from office seems largely unproductive. But since the Sunday […]
The Republican defense for the Jack Abramoff scandal is basically one phrase: Dems took Abramoff money too. Those five words have been repeated by every GOP activist and lawmaker, and regurgitated by reporters striving for some kind of fact-free “balance,” but the truth remains that Abramoff was a Republican operative, who donated to Republican candidates […]
As is too often the case with the Bush White House, there’s the president’s rhetoric… “And tonight I also offer this pledge of the American people: Throughout the area hit by the hurricane, we will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes, to help citizens rebuild their communities and their […]
I generally just ignore Ann Coulter’s lunacy because it’s so terribly irrelevant. When circus clowns go on some tirades about liberals, it’s hard to get too worked up about it. But I nevertheless thought yesterday’s Coulter flap was a little more interesting than most. Speaking at a Little Rock college, conservative commentator Ann Coulter joked […]