It’d be fairly easy to just devote an entire blog to chronicling every crazy thing Alan Keyes says and does as he learns his way around Illinois. I’m not prepared to do that, but when items like this one come along, I can’t help but mention it. Republican U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes declared Tuesday […]
The Arizona Republic recently reported that the Bush campaign is considering dropping out of the Oct. 13 debate with John Kerry, but the Washington Post says it may be the Oct. 8 event in St. Louis that Bush skips out of. President Bush may skip one of the three debates that have been proposed by […]
I suspect Congress won’t hire a collection agency to get the money, but Bush’s former Medicare chief appears to owe the government the cost of his salary. The Department of Health and Human Services should have withheld former Medicare chief Thomas A. Scully’s salary last year because Scully wrongly kept a subordinate from giving Congress […]
The story about Bush not fulfilling his National Guard responsibilities is hitting the news in a big way right now. I just don’t know how much it matters. At this point, several things Bush has said about his service and related service files have either been proven false or brought into serious question. It’d take […]
This is the kind of thing a candidate says when he or she is desperate to scare the public: Vote for me or you may die. It is, quite literally, demagoguery at its worst. Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday that the nation faces the threat of another terrorist attack if voters make the “wrong […]
There’s been no shortage on advice for John Kerry lately. I’ve lost count of how many have suggested that there’s a magical, rhetorical silver bullet out there that would put Kerry up for good if only he’d use it. If he’d only say this, whatever this is, enough voters would come to their senses that […]
There may be only two months before Election Day, but Congress is returning to session and lawmakers are still looking at a congressional agenda with far more items than days left to consider them. Not surprisingly, as my friend Eugene Oregon noted, Republican leaders are confident that the limited time remaining can be exploited for […]
I’ll never have the time or the energy to point out every insane thing Dick Cheney says over the next two months, but there was something that jumped out at me this morning that I feel compelled to mention. Mr. Cheney, campaigning in Clear Lake, Iowa, criticized Mr. Kerry for “demeaning our allies.” “When it […]
I’m not disappointed that there’s another right-wing 527 getting ready to tarnish our political discourse; I’m disappointed that it’s not more creative about coming up with a name. Move over, MoveOn.org. The liberal-leaning group that has raised millions of dollars to run negative ads attacking President Bush now has a competitor on the right with […]
My friend Tom Schaller raised an important point two weeks ago about fatalities in Iraq: The number of Americans killed in Iraq during 2004 now exceeds the number killed in 2003. More remarkably, the 488 killed thus far this year died in just 239 days (2.04 daily average), while the 482 killed last year died […]