By now, nearly everyone has heard all about Dick Cheney’s colorful choice of words on the Senate floor this week. But just in case you haven’t: A brief argument between Vice President Cheney and a senior Democratic senator led Cheney to utter a big-time obscenity on the Senate floor this week. On Tuesday, Cheney, serving […]
Remember a few months ago when Nader hosted a rally in Oregon and no one showed up? The purpose of the gathering was to meet the state’s threshold to qualify him for the state presidential ballot. The rally was a debacle and Nader could be heard muttering to himself in the hallway afterward, wondering why […]
Of all the major national dailies, only one — the Chicago Tribune — put the Plame story on the front page. Everyone else stuffed it — the Washington Post (page 2), the NY Times (page 16), the LA Times (page 9), and USA Today (page 7). I guess it’s fairly routine to have a sitting […]
No one wants to fess up to having reserved a congressional room for the bizarre coronation for Sun Myung Moon in March. [T]here is someone left in Washington with a sense of embarrassment over Moon’s antics: The name of the senator who gave permission for Moon to use the Dirksen Building remains a mystery. I’m […]
On Feb. 6, CNN’s Inside Politics had an item about job losses under the Bush administration, which emphasized the fact that this administration had the worst record of any president in 70 years. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao suggested we’re focusing on the wrong numbers. Judy Woodruff: “I want to cite the one economic analyst with […]
Just saw this on the wires. President Bush was interviewed by government prosecutors Thursday in connection with the federal investigation of who leaked the name of an undercover CIA operative to the news media. The president was questioned for 70 minutes in the Oval Office by U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald, who is heading the […]
It was an interesting face-off. Angry senators were demanding to see potentially incriminating administration documents about its torture policies, while the attorney general insisted that was impossible. Ashcroft said he would not discuss the contents of the Justice and Pentagon memos, and would not turn over the Justice memo to the committee. “I believe it […]
The Supreme Court’s decision in the case about Dick Cheney’s secret energy task force was, to be sure, disappointing. It wasn’t a total disaster, though, in that the case is still very much alive. The Supreme Court refused Thursday to order the Bush administration to make public secret details of Vice President Dick Cheney’s energy […]
One of the more entertaining primary fights in the nation is the GOP Senate contest in Colorado. Beer executive Peter Coors is a late-entrant, taking on Rep. Bob Schaffer, a very conservative Republican lawmaker. Early on, after Gov. Bill Owens passed on the race, Schaffer looked like he was in good shape. Owens, the state […]
Speaking of Reagan, be sure to keep an eye out for this week’s “Questions for…” column in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. It’s going to feature an interview with Ron Reagan Jr. in which he, again, expresses his displeasure with the current occupants of the White House. Fresh off his less-than-subtle criticisms of Bush […]