If accurate, this may be the single most incredible quote I’ve ever seen. “I would not have voted for [President Bush’s] tax cut, based on what I know…. There is no doubt that the people at the top who need a tax break the least will get the most benefit…. Too often presidents do things […]
Much has been made of Bush’s interview late last week with Radio and Television Ireland. To be sure, there are plenty of interesting angles. Bush was unusually testy about the reporters’ penchant for interrupting his long, rambling answers (he ended up saying “let me finish” nine times). In fact, the White House was so irritated, […]
Some conservatives seem to be troubled by the significance the left is placing on the Cheney-Leahy flap. I thought I’d take a moment to put it in a slightly different context, and hopefully, help explain why this still matters a bit. Let’s say it’s June 1996 and the Clinton-Gore campaign is gearing up for re-election. […]
If moving up the date for the so-called “handoff” in Iraq helps save lives that would have otherwise been targeted on June 30, then yesterday’s surprise and secret event is certainly good news. But therein lies a bigger problem: the fact that deteriorating security made the change necessary. As a substantive matter, the same concerns […]
My connection is down–again. If it comes back, I will post later, otherwise check back tomorrow.
If you’ve been reading this site for a while, you’ve 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. Note: Zogby Interactive/Wall Street Journal released another one of its surveys, but as I’ve noted before, I […]
I realize that “web videos” are commercials that most Americans will never see. Bush supporters who visit his site may check them out, but they’re already on his side. Dems like me will take a look, but only critique and criticize. That’s about the full extent of the audience. That said, there’s something deeply strange […]
There have been a couple of new stories this week about one of my favorite issues — the reaction to the Bush administration’s new policy toward Cuba among Cuban-Americans in South Florida. This was supposed to be an easy one for the Bush White House. In what appeared, at the time, to be a predictable […]
Back in 1998, several angry liberals starting threatening GOP lawmakers who insisted on pushing the Clinton impeachment ordeal: If you go after Clinton for his affair, we’ll expose your affairs as well. It was hardly a sweeping success. Republicans continued their witch hunt unabated while we learned more than we wanted to know about some […]
Just to briefly update a story from two weeks ago, I wanted to mention that the superintendent of California’s public schools has ordered an investigation into a widely-used anti-drug program with ties to the Church of Scientology. The popular program, called Narconon Drug Prevention and Education, has been used by schools nationwide for the past […]