Just two days after Dick Cheney was in central Florida lying about Saddam-al Queda connections, Bush will be in Tampa today to highlight his national security credentials. The choice of venue seems like a fairly obvious choice: Bush will be speaking to troops at MacDill Air Force Base. The interesting part will be contrasting today’s […]
Let’s see, where are we with the Plame Game today? The White House is under a criminal investigation, top vice presidential aides are leading suspects involving a possible felony, the President of the United States has sought outside counsel, and the VP (without telling anyone) sat down with investigators to talk about the crime. Slowly […]
I know Bush wants to take up the Reagan mantle, but this is just asking for ridicule: Batter-coated french fries are a fresh vegetable, according to the Agriculture Department, which has a federal judge’s ruling to back it up. To be fair, the purpose of this classification is for frozen food commerce, not school lunches. […]
A funny thing happens when the attorney general loses any shred of credibility — his terrorist announcements generate more questions than concern. It’s about time. Yesterday, for example, John Ashcroft wanted the nation to know that a dangerous man who was prepared to launch a terrible attack has been indicted. Federal officials yesterday accused a […]
I wouldn’t want to be working in Halliburton’s media relations office this week. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) did his part yesterday in keeping the Cheney-“coordinated’ contracts story in the news by calling for a special prosecutor to look into the vice president’s possible role in the deal. U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft should appoint a […]
I’m pretty tired of hearing the talking heads complain that John Kerry hasn’t fully articulated his reasons for running for president, but I imagine Kerry is particularly sick of it. To his credit, I think he has a clever idea to help quash these questions altogether — he’s telling them explicitly. Armed with a five-word […]
It took a little longer than I had hoped, but the Justice Department is finally moving on the GOP memo-theft scandal. As you no doubt recall, GOP staffers on the Senate Judiciary Committee stole thousands of documents from the committee’s Dems that showed how Dems worked to block a handful of Bush judicial nominees. Last […]
Earlier this year, Congress passed the first federally-funded private school voucher program in history. Under the $14-million plan, students in the District of Columbia could apply for $7,500-vouchers to pay for tuition at religious and other private schools. Proponents of the plan rolled out the usual arguments: inner-city parents are desperately clamoring for these vouchers […]
Speaking of Reagan, the Bush White House and the GOP are making every effort to tie the current president to the “Reagan legacy,” but criticism of the comparison is coming from an interesting place: Reagan’s family. The New York Times had a good article today noting the obvious hostily from Nancy Reagan, Patti Davis, and […]
After a full week of overly effusive praise, I expected polls to show increased support for Reagan appearing on U.S. currency, as many congressional Republicans are proposing. It turns out, as my friend Poppy noticed, that the opposite is true. Ronald Reagan may be missed, but the idea of honoring him on currently occupied currency […]