The more I think about John Kerry’s speech on Iraq policy, the more I love it. Everything about it was on target — it was a sober assessment of the disastrous Bush policy, it held the president responsible without blaming the military or undercutting the troops, it looked ahead to what he could do better […]
I hate to admit it (OK, maybe I don’t), but Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is looking and sounding increasingly unhinged lately, after a nice respite away from the spotlight. The White House, apparently concerned about Rumsfeld’s growing unpopularity among voters, kept the Pentagon chief safely out of view for most of the summer. Now he’s […]
To hear the Bush campaign tell it, they’d be absolutely thrilled to make the remaining six weeks of the campaign a debate over Iraq. White House communications director Dan Bartlett said that when the public compares Bush and Kerry on Iraq, they consistently put their faith in the president. As such, Bartlett said, the White […]
Because of my personal background with televangelists, I found the LA Times’ detailed expose of TV preacher Paul Crouch absolutely fascinating. If you’re interested in the subject, be sure to read the whole thing, which spans a couple of days. The key point from the Times’ research is the notion of the “prosperity gospel.” Like […]
Here’s another gem of a quote from the Bush gang. Bush campaign spokesman Steve Schmidt said Kerry’s goal of pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq in his first term sends “a clear signal of defeat and retreat to America’s enemies that will make the world a far more dangerous place.” “Defeat and retreat” is the […]
If you haven’t already seen it, be sure to check out Joe Klein’s column in this week’s Time. Klein made the comparison that needed to be made — Scott McClellan to Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf. Remember al-Sahhaf? He was the unintentionally hilarious Iraqi Information Minister who would tell international journalists how well things were going for […]
I think I’ve determined why the Bush administration’s domestic policies keep failing — they’re bad at math. At a minimum, that would shed some light on how Bush’s Medicare scheme continues to get worse all the time. President Bush promised Congress that his Medicare prescription drug benefit would cost no more than $400 billion over […]
The most over-the-top effort to scare voters I’ve ever heard came at the Christian Coalition’s national conference in 2000. Dede Robertson, Pat’s wife, wanted her sympathetic audience to believe that an Al Gore presidency would literally destroy civilization. In the space of just 10 minutes Robertson’s wife, who has just recently been named chair of […]
Bush may be running around the country telling voters how great conditions are in Iraq, but members of Congress, to their credit, aren’t buying it. Even the Republicans. Let’s see, first there was Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). “No, I don’t think we’re winning,” Senator Hagel of Nebraska said on the CBS News program “Face the […]
The story started innocently enough. In February, Tim Russert asked the president if he would release his full military record to settle the controversy over whether he fulfilled his obligations to the National Guard. Bush said, “Yes, absolutely. We did so in 2000, by the way.” The second sentence was a transparent falsehood, and as […]