Now that John ‘there is no such thing as the United Nations‘ Bolton has officially zero percent chance negative seventeen percent chance of getting confirmed by the US Senate before the midterm elections, it is rumored that he may stay on anyways. It’d be a major defeat for the White House if he called it […]
The Senate is set to pass the President’s unconstitutional detainee bill today (by a close margin), after having earlier today defeated 51-48 an amendment sponsored by Senators Arlen Specter and Patrick Leahy (who pretty much hate each other) which would have preserved the Constitutional guarantee of habeas corpus (essentially the right not to be detained […]
Seriously, traditional media. What on earth are we supposed to believe now?
Washington Post: Wiretap Bill Moves Closer to Passage
Associated Press: Congress unlikely to pass wiretapping
In all fairness, both of those were written on the 26th, so they’re probably all super out-dated by now. That, and Arlen Specter has probably reversed his position on the NSA’s […]
How dare anybody criticize the President for not finding the man who ordered the killing of 3,000 Americans in 2001. How dare anybody criticize the President for allowing the CIA and the Pentagon to shut down their programs devoted to finding Osama bin Laden. How dare anybody criticize the President for diverting troops for his […]
Republican House Majority Leader John Boehner upsets me. Seriously, see if you can watch that interview without either falling out of your chair laughing or yelling at your computer screen. I dare you.
Because of the above-linked interview however, Chris Matthews just earned 5 points in my book. His score now rests at… 5 points.
Gay marriage is not the most important issue we face today.
President Bush had lunch in Tennessee today. He attended a luncheon fundraiser for Republican Senate candidate Bob Corker, who is fighting with Democrat Harold Ford Jr for Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s seat (Frist is retiring from the Senate this year, probably to run for President in 2008). The President raised more than a million […]
More on the selectively-declassified NIE backfire:
The Iraq war is fueling a growing threat of global terrorism and “shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders,” according to a report from U.S. intelligence agencies that President Bush ordered declassified on Tuesday.
The grim analysis offers little reason for optimism over the next five years, the time frame covered […]
Okay, let’s say you’re an endangered Republican incumbent. And the only negative thing you can think of to point out which separates you and your Democratic challenger is the fact that he doesn’t have any “military experience” and you do. Do you run the negative campaign ad bashing him for not joining the US Army […]
Editorial cartoonist Tom Toles on the so-called detainee treatment act “compromise.”
It’s been 24 hours. Brief update on the College Republicans harassing the teenage Democrat at the Republican campaign event story.
The Michael Bouchard campaign has apparently denied my request for comment, it’s been 24 hours and I haven’t heard back from them. After speaking to an investigative journalist about the story (and after he read the […]
After the Rwandan genocide in 1994 occurred, some speculated that the reason why President Clinton’s Administration hadn’t termed it genocide was that if they had, they would be compelled to act through the United Nations to intervene in the tragedy. A decade later in 2004, the Bush Administration, led by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell […]
As you’ve already heard, the President ordered Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Negroponte to declassify part of the classified NIE, for political reasons. That being, to try and prove Democrats wrong. They claim that they only wanted people to be able to decide for themselves, but if that was true, then why didn’t they […]
A Republican attacks a Democrat’s position on Iraq and says that they just want to “cut and run.”
We’ve heard this before. It’s the same old familiar story, right? Wrong. Here’s why. The Republican is Peter Roskam. He says American soldiers shouldn’t be allowed to come home from Iraq until they’ve made the country “secure.” And […]
This is pretty much the funniest unintentionally funny campaign ad out this cylce. Also probably one of the most bizarre. It’s from a Democrat.
“Brad Miller spent your money to study the masturbation habits of old men.”
Watch the ad.
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