I was reviewing some old stories about the Plame scandal and came across a quote from The Guardian’s Julian Borger from September 2003. “Several of the journalists are saying privately, ‘Yes it was Karl Rove who I talked to.’ Now, the thing is that the journalists are not going to name Karl Rove publicly because […]
I honestly thought it was over. Even Jeb Bush had resigned himself to the fact that he could no longer exploit the Terri Schiavo matter. But, alas, the Senate’s nuttiest member, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) is still pursuing the case. U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn challenged the accuracy of Terri Schiavo’s autopsy Thursday, saying he has […]
To hear Republican lawmakers tell it, the estate tax needs to be completely eliminated, immediately, to help protect the thousands of family farmers. It’s has nothing to do with lavishing more tax breaks on multi-millionaires, they say, only those hard-working planters and cultivators who help keep food on our tables. Like so much of the […]
To follow up on points raised by Digby and John, I think it’s abundantly clear right now that demanding Karl Rove’s immediate resignation is a no-brainer. Whether he’s a felon remains to be seen, but based solely on what we know about his tactics in the Plame scandal, Rove shouldn’t be able to step foot […]
In case you were away from your computer over the weekend, several pieces of the Plame puzzle have started to come together. The newly-formed picture isn’t a pleasant one for Karl Rove. It was 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003, and Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his […]
Here’s a topic I’ve pondered over for a while. I’m not even sure which side I’d pick. Let’s say you had a choice between your party controlling the White House but having an opposition Congress, or your party controlling Congress but having a president of the opposite party. Which would you choose? Why? Discuss.
Guest post by Ed Stephan George Will wrote a Fourth-of-July column praising David McCullough’s “1776”. To introduce his paean, he set up a sort of straw man in the form of “historicism”: What is history? The study of it — and the making of it, meaning politics — changed for the worse when, in the […]
Guest post by Ed Stephan We seldom notice our own aging. The day-by-day, year-by-year changes are there, but we don’t usually think of them until they become an “event” – though we age continously, we’re suddenly old enough to go to school, drive a car, vote, marry, begin a career, retire. In the abstract, quantitative […]
Guest post by Ed Stephan In several of my Carpetbagger comments I have linked to an excellent article by the editors of Seattle’s offbeat paper, The Stranger, titled “The Urban Archipelago” (subtitled “It’s the Cities, Stupid”). It moves well beyond what has become the standard “red-state blue-state” characterization of American politics. A county-by-county red-blue 2004 […]
Guest post by Ed Stephan How about bringing back the “Fairness Doctrine“? Except for Air America virtually all radio and much of TV — though federally licensed to broadcast over public airwaves — seems to be little more than a propaganda arm for the GOP. For many years, television and radio stations were required to […]