Forget NASCAR Dads, soccer moms, office-park dads, and just about every other targeted political sub-group you’ve heard about. The trend I’m watching this fall is the military vote. This has been simmering for months, but it’s becoming a full-blown phenomenon. Consider the USA Today op-ed from James Webb, secretary of the Navy during the Reagan […]
When Bush’s Medicare bill was working its way through Congress, the cost of the bill was a major sticking point. Don’t worry, the White House said, we know exactly what it will cost and the nation can afford it. At the time, Bush insisted that the overall price tag for the legislation would be no […]
Jesse Berney at the DNC blog had a great post yesterday about Education Secretary Rod “Teachers are Terrorists” Paige’s clumsy appearance at a high school in St. Louis. In all likelihood, Paige probably thought these were just public school kids who would let him off easy with a few generic questions about school funding. Instead, […]
Just a month ago, Bush committed himself to a positive, constructive agenda, free of negative campaigning. “I’ll continue to work hard to unite the country. I don’t speak ill of anybody in the process here. I think if you went back and looked at my comments, you’ll see I don’t attack.” [emphasis added] One month […]
Well, it probably didn’t mean to, but that’s what happened. Bush swung though Ohio (20 electoral votes) yesterday for his 15th trip since taking office in 2001. The purpose of his speech in Cleveland was clear: tout the strength of the economy. You can read the speech yourself and see how unpersuasive it is, but […]
For some reason, I never tire of updates on Republicans trying to undermine the independence of the federal judiciary. It’s just fascinating to me how so-called conservatives take such a radical approach to constitutional principles like the separation of powers. I’ve already written at some length about the GOP’s penchant for court-stripping measures, but now […]
The Republicans — both the RNC and the Bush campaign team — thought they had a strong line of attack against Kerry: his votes to cut military spending in the 1990s. Unfortunately for them, it not only lacked substance, it lacked coherence. Kerry voted to eliminate some programs, but they were the same programs Republicans […]
Bush’s schedule for the day sounds eerily familiar. From the AP today: Bush was to be among the first digging shovels of dirt at the groundbreaking for a new Sept. 11 memorial in East Meadow, N.Y., a Manhattan suburb on Long Island. The quarrel over the ads was shadowing Bush, as at least two groups […]
CNN reported yesterday that the military is about to “up [the] high-tech ante” in the search for Osama bin Laden. The Pentagon is considering beefing up the already enhanced technology U.S. forces are using to search for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden along the mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. This report comes just […]
I can’t tell you how encouraging it is to see Dems put aside their differences, think practically, and act with a greater goal in mind. It happens so infrequently… The frenzy in Colorado over the suddenly-open Senate seat looked like it was going to be a divisive fight on both sides, with several qualified candidates […]