The Washington Times, DC’s unabashedly right-wing newspaper, had an interesting item about Fox News anchorman Neil Cavuto today. (For those of you unfamiliar with the Times, it’s a newspaper only in the loosest sense. It doesn’t even pretend to objective. It is a conservative publication by design, written by conservatives for a conservative audience. The […]
More campaign news, this time of virtually no interest to anyone outside of Florida, Carpetbagger’s former home state. With Sen. Bob Graham (D) launching a presidential bid, his Senate seat, which is up next year, will be heavily sought after. The race to succeed him, should Graham either appear on the Democratic ticket or retire, […]
More Q1 info from the presidential candidates. To review, we learned yesterday that Edwards was leading the pack with $7.4 million and Kerry was right behind him with $7 million. Since then, we’ve heard from a couple more. Lieberman took in about $3 million, Dean reported $2.6 million, and the other folks were so embarrassed […]
Following up on the earlier news on presidential fundraising, John Kerry looks as though he’s done about as well as John Edwards in the first quarter of 2003, raising about $7 million. If you include the nearly $3 million transferred from Kerry’s Senate campaign fund, the Massachusetts Democrat has raised about $10 million for his […]
I freely admit that I’m no expert on foreign affairs, but over the last year or so I feel like I’ve been able to get a sense of Rumsfeld’s neo-con philosophy and how it applies to the use of military force. Yet, I’ve never really grasped the meta-goals the agenda hoped to achieve. It didn’t […]
Yesterday, ABC News’ indispensable daily report, The Note, playfully tried to prod the presidential campaigns into disclosing figures for first quarter fundraising. As of about 24 hours ago, none of them were budging. The totals are of great interest to political insiders, even more important that early poll numbers, because it reflects an ability to […]
The Democrats’ fight against the White House over funding for domestic security reached new levels yesterday. The Dems obviously see this as a political vulnerability for Bush and have decided to make this a central part of the 2004 campaign. Of course, Bush is really making the case for them. As Jonathan Chait explained in […]
Yesterday I mentioned the Hatfield-McCoy like relations between the State and Defense Departments in the Bush administration. Today’s papers have ample evidence that the infighting and bickering among Republicans, inside the White House and out, is getting worse, not better. One conservative Republican political strategist told the New York Times yesterday, “I don’t understand what […]
It may seem a little early to be thinking about the 2004 Senate elections, but in Carpetbagger Land, it’s always campaign season. In particular, I was thinking today about Pennsylvania. Arlen Specter has always been something of an eccentric Senator. He’s the only Jewish Republican in the Senate, for example, and he hasn’t been afraid […]
The Vatican announced this week that the Church believes countries that sanction gay marriages are inhabited by people with “profoundly disordered minds.” It’s always nice to see leaders of the Roman Catholic Church embracing modern, progressive ideas about the changing nature of families. The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for the Family released a glossary this week […]