Just one day after launching a twisted ad campaign, one of the Swiftboat Hacks for Bush’s key allies has jumped ship. [Y]esterday, a key figure in the anti-Kerry campaign, Kerry’s former commanding officer, backed off one of the key contentions. Lieutenant Commander George Elliott said in an interview that he had made a ”terrible mistake” […]
Alan Keyes, to no one’s surprise, is going to enter the Illinois Senate race. Maryland conservative Alan Keyes, a former Republican presidential contender and talk-show host, has agreed to accept the nomination as the Illinois GOP nominee for Senate and plans a public rollout for his campaign on Sunday, several Republican sources said Thursday. “He […]
And speaking of overplaying the Sandy Berger non-story, I almost forgot to mention how ridiculous House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) has become. It’s reached the point in which parody is no longer possible because reality is too absurd. About a month ago, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) took Davis to task for his […]
Federal investigations can be funny things. Some (say, Whitewater) are kept going indefinitely to embarrass the accused and keep a controversy fresh in the minds of voters. Other investigations are the mirror opposite, at least in terms of motivations. They can be Energizer Bunny-like in duration, but the delays are intended to help the accused. […]
Like Tapped’s Nick Confessore, I can’t begin to understand why Sandy Berger’s inadvertent removal of some photocopies from the National Archives prompted a media frenzy, but Sen. Richard Shelby’s (R-Ala.) leaking of classified information barely gets a blip. Federal investigators concluded that Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.) divulged classified intercepted messages to the media when […]
Remember James L. Hart, the racist/lunatic running for the GOP nomination for Congress in Tennessee? He won yesterday’s “primary.” An unabashed racist will represent the Republican Party in the November election for a congressional seat after a write-in candidate failed to derail his effort. With 86 percent of the primary vote counted, write-in candidate Dennis […]
Financial analysts were expecting the economy to add as many as 247,000 jobs in July, while Bush promised many more than that due to the “success” of his tax politics. We didn’t even come close to either. The nation’s payroll growth slowed dramatically in July with a paltry 32,000 jobs being added — a potentially […]
This one may be the worst ever. President Bush offered up a new entry for his catalog of “Bushisms” on Thursday, declaring that his administration will “never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people.” Bush misspoke as he delivered a speech at the signing ceremony for a $417 billion defense […]
It was a move straight out of Amy Sullivan’s playbook. No longer satisfied with letting the Republicans have an alleged monopoly on the “faith vote,” the DNC had hired an accomplished, capable religious leader to be the party’s first-ever director of religious outreach. The Rev. Brenda Bartella Peterson was named senior adviser for religious outreach […]
Considering Rep. Katherine Harris’ track record for handling sensitive information, this probably shouldn’t come as a big surprise, but it’s still the week’s strangest political controversy. On Monday, Harris insisted she knew information the public did not about “more than 100” thwarted terrorist attacks, which, according to her, could have been just as serious as […]