Obama's FISA sellout: bad law, bad politics
There's no doubt that Barack Obama reversed his earlier position on FISA "reform" legislation when he voted for that scandalous bill. It's equally clear I think (despite Ed Kilgore) that the sellout...
View ArticleThe McMyth
John McCain is just a shameless liar, as I can attest from personal experience. But the traditional media in the US remains so wedded to the McMyth he's constructed for them of a 'straight talker',...
View ArticleGOP, the Know-Nothing Party
Republicans have been in a lather since Barack Obama commented that American children should learn a foreign language in school. It demonstrates the extent to which they've become the party of...
View ArticleNancy Pelosi and Al Gore at Netroots Nation
You can watch the question & answer session with Speaker Nancy Pelosi at Netroots Nation here. She was warmly welcomed when she came on stage at 9:15, and began with a short address before taking...
View ArticleBush White House now twice as ethical
The Bush White House is surely twice as ethical this year as last. In July 2007 the WH staff included two "Ethics Advisors", each earning more than $100,000. That was the year in which a parade of top...
View ArticleRepublicans exporting partisanship
Used to be an ironclad rule of American politics that partisanship ended at our shores. Even in the depths of the Cold War, few of Washington's commie-baiters dared to trash the political opposition...
View ArticleMcCain: We won the Iraqi civil war
Ever since Nouri al-Maliki endorsed Barack Obama's plan to withdraw most US troops from Iraq within about 16 months, John McCain has been agitatedly trying to find a cloud in the silver lining. He's...
View ArticleMcCain's phenomenal grasp of economics
His top economic adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, now says that John McCain is an economic whiz (h/t VA Classical Liberal). I would never have guessed that.Terry Gross: John McCain has said that the...
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UK torture coverup unravels
The British governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have been shockingly complicit with the Bush administration both in using, encouraging, and facilitating torture, as well as in helping to cover...
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John McCain's Arizona problem
Although littlenoticed by the traditional media, John McCain has a problem with his day job: He's not doing it.Any way you measure it, McCain's performance in the Senate during the last year has been...
View ArticleMcCain paid a year's salary since he showed up to work
$51,345.08 - Senate salary John McCain has 'earned'since he last showed up in the Senate to perform his job on April 9, 2008.$48,201.00 - The median household income in the US in 2006.As Calouste...
View ArticleAP's Ron Fournier exposed as a McCain shill
On Tuesday Michael Calderone at Politico produced definitive evidence of Ron Fournier's bias in favor of John McCain. He did it by linking the Associated Press Washington Bureau chief directly to the...
View ArticleMcCain still lying about his earmarks
One of the myths that John McCain has pawned off on the public most successfully is the one about his inveterate hostility to earmarks. For years McCain has been claiming that he never has put a single...
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ABC: Here's what trying to scare voters actually looks like
ABC has a new story on this silly 'controversy':“Barack Obama has played the race card, and he played it from the bottom of the deck,’’ Rick Davis, Mr. McCain’s campaign manager, said in a statement....
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McCain website scrubbed of 'celebrity' citation
Blogger Rodger Payne has discovered John McCain hoist by his own petard.Turns out that until this month John McCain's presidential website had a post with laudatory excerpts from a much longer March 1,...
View ArticleJohn McCain's diary
Back in steerage the – so called – News Boys are whooping it up so's I can't nap. Hyenas. Could use a highball myself but Rug Rat says nix. Jerks will talk about me. As if that's not the problem.Satan...
View ArticleParis Peace Talks, 2008
There's widespread agreement that the landscape of the 2008 election could lead to a political realignment of historic proportions. But how and why would that occur? How do historical parallels from...
View ArticleSpot the Republican
John McCain's attack ads were a topic of the Sunday blab fests. They were a study in contrasts between McCain's surrogates and honest folk. Here are two such, first from Meet The Press:MR. BROKAW:...
View ArticleWhy Americans want more government regulation
Ronald Reagan managed to convince a surprising number of people who should have known better that the federal government is the enemy and government regulation is the problem rather than a solution....
View ArticleAssessing Suskind's forgery charge
George Bush and George Tenet both deny the allegation leveled by Ron Suskind's new book, The Way of the World, that in late 2003 the White House ordered the CIA to forge and circulate a letter that...
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