While McCain takes a breather and waits for his certain anointment, Obama and Clinton continue the primary slog. The first of two upcoming debates is tomorrow, but Obama obviously has the momentum, with a clean sweep through all of February’s 10 contests behind him. And on that point, Bill Clinton himself acknowledged that it’s do-or-die [...]
A 65-year-old Texan called into Fox News Radio’s Tom Sullivan with this gem: Obama sure sounds a lot like Hitler. It’s not the message or the style, the caller said, just, you know, the inspiration. Sullivan lapped it up and decided to mash together a few clips of Hitler with some of Obama’s greater hits. [...]
* Mitt Romney will endorse John McCain; it looks as if Gore has decided to refrain from announcing an endorsement.
* Right-wing opposition to John McCain prompts talk of launching an ultra-conservative third party
* A Justice Department official testified on the legality of waterboarding before a House Judiciary subcommittee this morning, and actually provided an unequivocal [...]
Early election results suggest there’s hope for the GOP
It’s still early–just 8:15 p.m. on Election Day–and California’s not yet counted, but John McCain is killing it in Red State primaries. At this point, Romney’s won Massachusetts, Minnesota, Utah and the nearly unknown American province, Northern Daquota. McCain, meantime, has called it in Arizona, Oklahoma, New [...]
Top Republican OK with deaths
Early this week in a meeting with constituents, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) shared his thoughts on U.S. deaths in Iraq: “Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers.”
I look forward to the howls of outrage on Fox News– the Fair [...]
It’s been a week since the Bush Administration declared the surge of troops in Iraq a huge success–civilian and troop deaths down–but the guys at Fox News are, on this Sunday morn, a week later, still boasting (here’s Chris Wallace last Sunday). But when did the Bushies decide that the deaths of Iraq civilians are [...]
It’s only fitting that our first CEO President should also be our first Successories President
President Bush recently spoke with David Asman of Fox Business Channel, who decided to ask the tough questions, like:
What’s your biggest disappointment? “Social Security”
What’s your biggest success? “You know, I would say the advance [...]
H.W. looks to the future
George H.W. Bush, former president and possessor of the loins that sired the current president, appeared on Fox News today. The good folks at Think Progress watched it, and report that old Bush warns hopes that a new generation of Bushes may be going into politics.
Remembering Reagan
The rather saccharine pieties of the rightwing cult of Ronald Reagan have been polluting most media considerations of the low-wattage movie star turned politician since he died. But today in his LA Times column, George Skelton reminds us what the old boy was like in real life.