Michael Froomkin noticed a terribly amusing quote from a Dick Cheney speech in Florida this week. “The problem with that is, there isn’t anything in John Kerry’s background — oh, for the last 30 years — that gives you any reason to believe that he would, in fact, be tough in terms of prosecuting the […]
I’ve seen several comparisons of Oklahoma Senate candidate Tom Coburn to former Sen. Jesse Helms, but Coburn has taken the similarities to a new level by using Helms’ race-baiting campaign commercials and making them worse. Helms, in his 1990 Senate race against Harvey Gantt, ran one of the most vile TV campaign ads ever aired. […]
Yesterday afternoon, Bush was awfully anxious to boast of the United Nation’s ongoing presence in Iraq. “[My opponent] wants the U.N. to be involved in those elections. Well, the U.N. is already there [in Iraq].” A couple of hours later, as if on cue, the AP reported: Two organizations representing more than 60,000 United Nations […]
As if it weren’t bad enough when public officials try to stop American Indians from voting, now Bush administration officials trying to suppress efforts to get American Indians registered. Officials at a federal program that runs hospitals and clinics serving Native Americans this summer prohibited employees from using those facilities to sign up new voters, […]
All of the papers are reporting today that the nation’s most criminally corrupt public official — House Majority Leader Tom DeLay — was admonished again by the House Ethics Committee yesterday. Most outlets report that this was the second time DeLay has been busted in the last six days — an unprecedented feat, to be […]
I found this entire paragraph hilarious. “Look, the decision’s been made that the president just isn’t going to get into an introspective mode of ‘we could have done this better,’ ” said one administration official who sat in on many of the campaign’s strategy meetings. Such concessions, the official said, would “play right into” Mr. […]
Noted, without comment, from ABC News: At a town meeting in Miami, Vice President Cheney responded to the Duelfer report saying that the “headlines all say no weapons of mass destruction, no stockpile in Iraq, but we already knew that,” reports ABC’s Karen Travers. (that sound you hear is me banging my head against my […]
I keep hoping someone will talk to the Republican base and force them to write, “I will stop giving Michael Moore free publicity” 100 times on the chalkboard. They clearly don’t understand that their anti-Moore efforts always — always — backfire. The latest GOP effort is a call to arrest Moore for offering free underwear […]
Any reasonable person might assume that the Duelfer report would be hard to spin. Not only did Iraq not have weapons of mass destruction at the time of our invasion, but Saddam Hussein hasn’t had anything in the way nuclear, biological, or chemical programs for many years. There were, to borrow a phrase, “program activities” […]
The Bush campaign saw this as a time for action. Their guy had tanked in a national debate, the polls were slipping, the war in Iraq is getting worse, violence in Afghanistan is increasing, and their opponent is getting stronger as time goes on. It was time, the campaign told everyone, for a “significant speech.” […]