About two weeks ago, the New York Times reported that the public could expect to see something at the Republican convention that was absent from the Dems’: details. President Bush will present what aides say will be a detailed second-term agenda when he is nominated in New York in 10 days, part of an ambitious […]
It was bound to happen. Late Friday afternoon on Labor Day weekend? It’s the ideal time for the Bush administration to release bad news it doesn’t want the public to see. This time it was the largest increase, in dollar terms, in Medicare premiums in the history of the program. Health insurance premiums for senior […]
There are still two months to go in this campaign, and there will be plenty more Bushisms along the way, but this one’s truly embarrassing. POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., Sept. 6 — The God-fearing folk of this rural hamlet must have been mighty scandalized Monday evening when President Bush dropped by to tell them about a […]
Admit it; I saw you looking for a window to jump out of when Newsweek and Time showed Bush jumping to an 11-point lead over Kerry. The hand-wringing done over the weekend was enough to cause a carpel tunnel epidemic. I even know what you were thinking — Kerry is making Gore’s mistakes, the Swiftboat […]
It shouldn’t technically count against me as a day off, since it’s a national holiday. Go out, have fun, and stay away from your computer. See you tomorrow.
If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you’ve hopefully come to expect this. If you’re new, welcome; we do this every Friday afternoon. It’s my weekly round-up of statewide presidential polls released over the last seven days. Today, for the first time ever, I offer the data without comments. A couple of notes. […]
Noted without comment, because I’m too disgusted to rant. President Bush on Friday wished Bill Clinton “best wishes for a swift and speedy recovery.” “He’s is in our thoughts and prayers,” Bush said at a campaign rally. Bush’s audience of thousands in West Allis, Wis., booed. Bush did nothing to stop them. Update: I’ve changed […]
There was Bush, last night: “[W]e have fought the terrorists across the Earth, not for pride, not for power, but because the lives of our citizens are at stake…. We have led, many have joined, and America and the world are safer.” Those words were delivered just hours after we learned this: As speakers at […]
You remember Gary Bauer, don’t you? He ran a religious right powerhouse (the Family Research Council) in the ’90s, he allegedly ran as a Republican for president in 2000, and he’s generally held himself out as a paragon for all that is moral and virtuous in society. But showing once more the strides Bush has […]
There are more reports out there than definitive explanations, but here’s what we’re seeing: From the AP: Former president Bill Clinton checked himself into a New York City hospital on Friday after suffering chest pains, a Democratic Party official and a police source said. Clinton plans to undergo heart bypass surgery soon, although the surgery […]