I have to admit I was shocked that Richard Carmona, Bush’s surgeon general, told a House panel Tuesday that he would “support…banning or abolishing tobacco products.” That’s pretty strong stuff. Even anti-tobacco folks rarely call for a complete prohibition on these products, preferring to lobby for strict limits on marketing and sales to minors. The […]
In case your confidence in our nation’s airport security couldn’t get much worse, I wanted to seal the deal with news from Carpetbagger regular Chief Osceola — who travels quite a bit by plane. It turns out that the federal government, which promised a revamped security system for our nations airports in the wake of […]
Here’s a weird switch for you: Democrats in Congress want to offer a generous tax cut to millions of families and Republicans like Tom DeLay are fighting the effort. Yes, you read that right. You’re well aware by now that congressional Republicans, in a last-minute move, altered the $350 billion tax cut plan to limit […]
There’s an interesting conflict underway between the Bush administration and thousands of teachers and parents who work with Head Start centers across the country. I’m a little surprised it’s not getting more attention; in fact, I hadn’t heard much of anything about it until getting a heads up from Carpetbagger regular Maverick late last week. […]
The Bush administration and its allies are getting a little anxious about the failure to find the huge arsenal of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction that necessitated a full-scale invasion over two months ago. There are multiple reports from the U.S. and around the world that the Bush administration “grossly manipulated intelligence” in order to […]
These aren’t the best of days for Democrats, so we have to look for victories wherever we can. Blogger Daily Kos reported yesterday on some welcome news in New Hampshire. The Granite State is, to be sure, a Republican state. It was the only state north of the Mason-Dixon line to vote for Bush in […]
Bush was in Krakow, Poland, over the weekend and visited Auschwitz, only the second sitting president to see the former Nazi concentration camp. Touring the facility with Teresa Swiebocka, senior curator of the Auschwitz Museum, Bush was clearly overwhelmed with much of what he saw, calling Auschwitz “a sobering reminder of the power of evil […]
Let’s take a quick stroll down memory lane and review what George W. Bush thought about tax cuts during the 2000 campaign. On Oct. 17, 2000, during the third Gore-Bush presidential debate, Gore emphasized his desire to cut taxes for the middle-class and the working poor. Bush criticized the approach for playing favorites among taxpayers […]
The capture and arrest of Eric Rudolph is unquestionably good news. A fugitive for five years, Rudolph is what can only be described as a terrorist. Rudolph, driven by his hatred of those unlike himself, appears to have detonated bombs at two women’s clinics, a gay nightclub, and the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. I can’t […]
Speaking of Democratic presidential candidates (see below), the field of nine could conceivably grow to 11 by the fall. Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.), who indicated a few months ago that he would not run in 2004, began hinting the other way yesterday. Appearing on “Face the Nation,” Biden said he was still considering a run […]