It’s hard to count all the mistakes the Illinois Republican Party made when it selected Maryland’s Alan Keyes to run as its Senate candidate. Party fundraising has been hurt, the down-ballot ripple effect may help Dems in Congress and the state legislature, and, naturally, the GOP has all-but lost a Senate seat that it currently […]
The AP had a terrific item over the weekend under the headline, “Bush Twists Kerry’s Words on Iraq.” It was the kind of fact-checking the media, especially the AP, is supposed to do. It captured the ongoing problem Bush has with the truth, in this case, as it relates to what John Kerry actually says […]
After last week’s bizarro fest, in which Bush and Allawi wanted America to know how stable and secure Iraq is, it was good to hear someone acknowledge that the insurgency in Iraq is getting worse, not better. Of course, this person runs the risk of drawing Bush’s wrath. After all, to notice publicly that Bush […]
At the Republican National Convention, Bush sounded awfully compassionate when it came to expanding access to health care for low-income children. “America’s children must also have a healthy start in life. In a new term, we will lead an aggressive effort to enroll millions of poor children who are eligible but not signed up for […]
Rhetoric before the war: “[O]n a rough recollection, the oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years…. We are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon,” Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said on March […]
I realize this story is 48 hours old (an eternity in the blogosphere), but I’m weighing in anyway. The myth of the “liberal media” can never be debunked often enough. Last week, we learned that 60 Minutes bumped a segment on Bush using forged documents to make his case that Iraq was trying to develop […]
Yep, it’s that time again. It’s my weekly round-up of statewide presidential polls released over the last seven days, a little something I call “Poll Day.” This week breaks last week’s record for most states ever: 38. Also this week, we have the ninth installment of the Zogby Interactive/Wall Street Journal survey. As always, because […]
I was trying to think of the appropriate response to the Bush’s campaign’s painfully stupid “Windsurfing” ad and started to write one of my lengthy treatises on the subject. But, fortunately for me and my readers, someone emailed me a political cartoon that sums up the issue perfectly. Amazing how a one-frame cartoon can deliver […]
Bush’s Defense Secretary, yesterday: U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has raised the possibility that some areas of Iraq might be excluded from elections scheduled for January if security could not be guaranteed. “Let’s say you tried to have an election and you could have it in three-quarters or four-fifths of the country. But in some […]
Just FYI, my friends at The Liquid List have had a lot of server troubles lately and access to the site as been spotty, at best. I’m mentioning this because TLL’s Oliver wrote me today to let me know that they’re back and better than ever. So, for those of you who were reading The […]