I admit it. For a variety of reasons, I’m fixated on the Democratic presidential primary and every incident that shapes it. With this in mind, the Dean vs. Kerry brouhaha that I mentioned yesterday has really captured my attention. Clearly, Dean’s camp is not willing to let this go. Dean said some borderline-dumb things about […]
Of all the issues raised in this year’s State of the Union address, Bush sounded genuinely concerned about the global fight against AIDS. “Because the AIDS diagnosis is considered a death sentence, many [in Africa] do not seek treatment,” Bush said. “Almost all who do are turned away. A doctor in rural South Africa describes […]
A little over a month ago, I noted that Howard Dean was becoming the Democratic candidate the other “top-tier” candidates hated the most. Relations between Dean, John Kerry, and John Edwards grew particularly tense after Dean admittedly misrepresented their remarks about war in Iraq, which Dean later had to apologize for. At the time, I […]
The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd weighed in on Sunday on one of my favorite topics: the continuing animosity festering between Colin Powell’s State Department and Donald Rumsfeld’s Defense Department. As Dowd, whose biting columns are usually mean but always brilliant, explained about the ongoing feud, battles of State vs. Defense are more than just […]
When I worked in Washington, I heard plenty of gossip about the often-demeaning demands public officials would make of their staffers. From what I heard, Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson was one of the worst, making someone from her staff pick her up at home every morning, without knocking on the door or using the […]
Voters in Alabama, Idaho, and Indiana haven’t supported a Democratic presidential candidate in the last five election cycles. Neither party bothers to campaign in these states anymore — the result is a foregone conclusion. I figure the only way to stop Bush from winning in these states is to keep his name off the ballot. […]
I don’t want to beat a dead horse, and everyone online has already blogged extensively about the Santorum controversy, but I wanted to follow up on some thoughts from Friday. As you know by now, Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum started quite a political controversy last week by equating “consensual (gay) sex” with polygamy, bigamy, and […]
Just as a rule, you know you’re in trouble when the sentence begins, “We were not lying, but…” In the months of build-up towards war in Iraq, the White House seemed to have trouble maintaining a consistent argument as to why the invasion was necessary. First, the administration hinted that Iraq was somehow involved in […]
If you’re ever in the mood to see dozens of professional adults transform into wild-eyed madmen before your very eyes, walk into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and say two words: Ralph Nader. The 2000 election was almost three years ago and far more attention is now being spent on finding the right […]
I know it can’t be easy for Bush to try and generate public demand for his tax cut plan. Even voters with a passive familiarity with current events know that the U.S. is running huge deficits, government programs are getting cut, and unless they’re pretty wealthy, they don’t have much more money in their pocket […]