One of the weekend’s stranger stories was generated by the dumbest legal complaint since Al Franken was sued for using “fair and balanced.” The National Republican Congressional Committee has filed a seven-page complaint letter with the Federal Elections Commission alleging the hosts of a popular talk radio show have illegally colluded with a Democratic candidate […]
Over the summer, it wasn’t unusual to hear pundits predict that worsening conditions in Iraq would change the dynamics of the Bush-Kerry race. High American casualties, we were told, would throw the campaigns, especially Bush’s, off-message and bump campaign news from the headlines. It seems the opposite is now true. Consider Saturday’s tragedies. Nine U.S. […]
Bush was on NBC’s Dateline yesterday with Tom Browkaw and while the interview didn’t generate any real news, there was one noteworthy exchange. Brokaw: “Mr. President in the opening of his debate, Dick Cheney, your vice president, said that if I had it to recommend all over again, I would recommend exactly the same course […]
I realize I’m about three days late on this (the woes of weekday-only blogging), but I wanted to weigh in for a moment on Osama bin Laden’s latest video. The spinning was instantaneous and, as it turns out, largely unnecessary. For those of us anxious to see a Kerry victory tomorrow, the tape was a […]
Wow, the final “Poll Day” of 2004, with my last look at the state polls released over the last seven days. Funny how time flies when you’re all-consumed with a presidential election. You may have assumed that the picture would grow clearer as we got closer to Election Day. There’d be fewer undecideds, many of […]
The fact that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice has abandoned her traditionally non-political role to hit swing states for Bush raised a few eyebrows last week, but the reality is she’s hardly the only one. Just as the NSA has always been kept separate from partisan politics, so too has the Treasury secretary. Until now. […]
A few days before the first Bush-Kerry debate, I suggested the Bush campaign’s spin machine may have been a little too good. BC04 had spent about $150 million before the Miami debate to convince voters that Kerry was unimpressive and uninspiring. The image the Bush gang had created was that of a dull, rigid man, […]
A month ago, the Republican National Committee sent out a mailing insisting that “liberals” are planning to “ban” the Bible. I said at the time it was “the most disturbing piece of direct mail I’ve ever seen.” I was wrong — the RNC has stooped even lower. A writer called The Blue Lemur, whom I […]
Knight Ridder, which has been reporting on Iraq as well as any outlet in America, had an excellent item today about missing weapons materials in the country — that go way beyond Al Qaqaa. Huge amounts of arms and ammunition were stolen from military sites, and there’s “ample evidence” that Iraqi insurgents are firing looted […]
You’ll be pleased to know that our Department of Homeland Security has done such a terrific job, it no longer has to worry about terrorist threats. This must be true, otherwise DHS officials wouldn’t be going after toy stores for selling products that infringe on trademarks. So far as she knows, Pufferbelly Toys owner Stephanie […]