Obviously, the presidential race will generate the lion’s share of political attention this year, but the race for Illinois’ Senate seat will be as captivating as any campaign in the nation. Democrat Barack Obama came from behind in the final month before yesterday’s primary to crush his six rivals, winning the primary with a surprising […]
For a guy who isn’t officially campaigning for president, Roy Moore keeps up an usually busy schedule in several key states. Everyone’s favorite theocrat was in Ohio (20 electoral votes) yesterday, speaking before a packed crowd at the Ashland University Convocation Center. Moore reportedly gave his standard stump speech. “We think an acknowledgment of God […]
Now: “If you’re going to make an accusation in the course of a presidential campaign, you ought to back it up with facts,” Bush told reporters in the Oval Office. Then: On May 3, 2000, Texas Gov. George W. Bush alleged that Vice President Al Gore was once a member of the National Rifle Association. […]
When asked to explain the largest budget deficits in the history of the world, President Bush generally relies on a series of unpersuasive excuses, starting with the economic downturn that turned into a recession shortly after he took office in 2001. The New York Times reported today on a report from nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office […]
It’s too damn easy to run out of adjectives with these guys. Shameless, brazen, callous, offensive, disturbing, nauseating, insulting… Ezra Klein noticed a stunning paragraph in this Time article about the election. Administration sources tell TIME that employees at the Department of Homeland Security have been asked to keep their eyes open for opportunities to […]
Just to follow up on an idea I raised two weeks ago, I’ve noticed that Wesley Clark, unlike other former Kerry rivals, is still being utilized by the Kerry campaign as a key surrogate. For example, Clark is in Ohio today, a critically important state with 20 electoral votes. He’ll be speaking on Kerry’s behalf […]
It’s fun, in an academic sense, to watch the ebb and flows of a White House scandal. As controversies go, the flap over whether Bush actually showed up for National Guard duty during Vietnam followed an unusual trajectory. First of all, it took several years to become a full-blown scandal. Plenty of us knew there […]
The Bush administration must really think we’re fools. There’s no other possible explanation. Over the weekend, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld joined the ever-growing list of prominent government figures to deny the obvious fact that U.N. weapons inspectors were in Iraq immediately before our invasion began. Speaking with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Rumsfeld made a comment early […]
There haven’t been any major updates lately on the investigation into the Plame Game scandal, but I’ve noticed that a handful of conservative outlets are still trying to undercut the seriousness of the controversy. I may be biased, but I’m finding these criticisms terribly unpersuasive. First up is the Wall Street Journal, whose editorial page […]
I don’t know if you had to be a poli sci major to enjoy it, but Robert Kaiser had a fascinating item in the Washington Post over the weekend about Congress, as an institution, ceding its power to the White House. The notion of competition between the executive and the legislative branches has been a […]