The second front-page Washington Post story in as many days makes the Wilson/Plame controversy even more intriguing, raising as many new questions as it answers. The Post reported, for example, that the White House is prepared to “cooperate” with the Justice Department, but would turn over phone logs only if Justice asked the White House […]
When Niger-gate was developing a head of steam in July, the Bush White House couldn’t point fingers fast enough. First, it was the British’s fault. Blame quickly shifted to the CIA and George Tenet. By late-July, Bush’s deputy national security adviser, Stephen Hadley, was accepting responsibility. With this in mind, a couple of readers have […]
It only took three months, but the controversy surrounding the Bush White House outing an undercover CIA agent is finally hitting the big time. As regular readers know, I’ve been fairly obsessed with this story since July, but now it’s reached a level where something very serious almost has to happen. I mean huge. Let’s […]
Earlier this week, I mentioned that the Bush administration would be releasing this year’s national poverty statistics on Friday, as opposed to the usual Tuesday or Thursday, so as to minimize bad publicity. (It’s part of an ongoing trend that prompted The Liquid List to start a contest.) Well, sure enough, the Census Bureau data […]
Just as only Nixon could go to China, only a Republican can get away with cutting federal spending on the military, right? Maybe not. In yesterday’s Democratic presidential debate, host Brian Williams asked each of the candidates to articulate one feature of their respective platforms that would be right but unpopular with the public. Wesley […]
It’s rare when one article can capture another person’s sentiment so perfectly that one finds himself nodding almost uncontrollably while reading it. The New Republic’s Jonathan Chait has written just such an article. It’s called, “The Case for Bush Hatred.” If the headline isn’t enough, consider Chait’s first paragraph. “I hate President George W. Bush. […]
Bob Graham’s presidential campaign couldn’t be going much worse. He’s in the low-single digits in national polls, other candidates are having better luck campaigning in Florida than he is, he was the only candidate to register 0% in a statewide poll this week in Wisconsin, he came in dead last in a statewide poll released […]
Fox News Channel ruthlessly published Tucker Carlson’s home phone number yesterday, but it turns out the network had a pretty good reason to do so. During yesterday’s episode of CNN’s Crossfire, Carlson, one of the show’s two conservative hosts, took the unpopular decision of defending telemarketers. After prodding from co-host Paul Begala and a Crossfire […]
Yesterday’s Democratic presidential debate in New York was far livelier than the events in Baltimore and Albuquerque. Watching the previous events, one got the impression the candidates were carefully trying not to make any mistakes. Last night, the gloves came off and the candidates came out fighting, mostly going after Dean. Despite polls showing Wesley […]
As I mentioned last week, Congress is on the verge of passing a $13 million voucher plan for the District of Columbia. Under the plan, about 1,700 low-income students will get vouchers worth $7,500 to be spent as tuition at a religious or other private school. The House already passed the plan by the closest […]