Once upon a time, conservative leader and activist Grover Norquist thought an obstructionist minority party was a threat to democracy itself. Now? Not so much: NORQUIST:Nothing good happens in the... [More]
March 2, 2007
Coulter Calls Edwards "Faggot," Movement Conservatives Applaud
For those who don't know, CPAC is one of the most important annual gatherings of conservatives in America. Everyone who is anyone makes an appearance, and this year, all of... [More]
March 3, 2007
A Sense of Inevitablitity
Interesting piece from the Economist on the 2008 contest. It begins with a discussion of Hillary's last-minute decision to attend this weekend's events in Selma, and then moves on to... [More]
There Are Rumours On The Internets....
In case you missed the news, YouTube has announced the launch of YouChoose, a site that aggregates all of the official 2008 presidential candidate YouTube sites. In other only slightly... [More]
March 5, 2007
Good Huckabee Profile in Salon
Salon has an interesting profile on GOP longshot candidate Mike Huckabee. I'll be honest. As a Democrat, this guy worries me more than anyone else. Unlike the rest of the... [More]
Watching Joe Learn To Blog
The Swampland experiment over at Time Magazine has been fascinating to watch. After years of getting hammered by the progressive bloggers, Joe Klein entered the fray, and from day one... [More]
A Picture Worth 1,000 Words
Front and center on today's NYT is the photo attached to this story. Take a look at the scene just above Hillary and Bill. What's that someone is holding? Something... [More]
March 8, 2007
About That Realignment
So I just gave a lecture today in Intro to American Politics about critical realignment theory, and at the end, as I was running out of time, I gave a... [More]
McCain's Fall
Ezra Klein: McCain was the maverick. In 2003, he was the perfect candidate for...2008. But he spent the intervening years sucking up to Bush and cozying up to the establishment... [More]
March 11, 2007
It Reminds Me Of The Kerry Campaign
For the second time in a week, the John Edwards campaign has turned a news story into an opportunity to raise donations via the Internet. First it was an email... [More]
March 13, 2007
"Shills of Negativity"
Well put, sir. Well put. Gary Kamiya @ Salon. Yet despite their supposed beliefs, a kind of nihilism, an intellectual sterility, emanates from the Coulters and Limbaughs of the world.... [More]
Today's Obama Update
via Andrew Sullivan, take a look at what Oakland has done: 500 Volunteer on a Sunday to Help Obama's Upcoming Oakland Appearance On just two days notice, close to 500... [More]
March 15, 2007
TIME: How the Right Went Wrong
You couldn't craft a better realignment cover if you tried. Wow.... [More]
March 19, 2007
WaPo: Military Is Ill-Prepared For Other Conflicts
Back in 2000, then Gov Bush made military preparedness a key part of his campaign for the White House. That was then. This is now. Four years after the invasion... [More]
Vote Different
For those of you who haven't yet seen the anti-Hillary, pro-Obama, 1984 Apple commercial rip-off yet, here you go: Obama's camp claims they had nothing to do with it. Assuming... [More]
March 20, 2007
“A mistake by an empty suit.”
Open mouth. Insert both feet. Cubans in Miami are steaming mad at former Gov. Mitt Romney for shooting his mouth off in stumbling Spanish, mispronouncing names and erroneously associating a... [More]
March 21, 2007
More Like This, Please
Al Gore is up on Capitol Hill today testifying about climate change. Rep Joe Barton (R-TX), one of the last remaining denialists out there, tried his best to spin his... [More]
John And Elizabeth Edwards To Hold Press Conference Tomorrow
From ABCNews: JOHN EDWARDS AND HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH, TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE THURSDAY AT NOON ET -- DEVELOPING He had recently cancelled a campaign stop to return home to be... [More]
"The game has changed"
Looks like Arianna found the creator of the anti-Hillary viral video from a few days back. The guy worked for Blue State Digital, the company Obama and several other Democratic... [More]
March 22, 2007
The Edwards Announcement
It seems that most people are missing the point of the Edwards announcement. Ezra Klein, thankfully, is not. I agree with K-Lo. I'd bet good money that John Edwards is... [More]
Obama’s Pastor Speaks Out
Wow. Just wow.... [More]
March 23, 2007
Once Again, Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong
Beinart @ Time: In 1973 the Senate voted to suspend funding for American military operations in Vietnam; the next year, Congress voted to cut off aid to the embattled government... [More]
More On The Edwards Announcement
Ana Marie Cox gets it pitch perfect: I've been thinking really hard about Jay's points from his piece yesterday. His argument initially struck me as interesting -- even a good... [More]
A $40 Million Violation
Bush doesn't like the law as is? Bush makes up his own law! The campaign spent $80 million on television ads it labeled “hybrid” ads — they promoted the president’s... [More]
Connecting the Dots, One By One
Just out from McClatchy: The administration's interest in replacing some U.S. attorneys, in voter fraud and in voting rights has sometimes had a political tinge, however. Bush has acknowledged hearing... [More]
March 24, 2007
I Hate To Admit This, But...
K-Lo may be on to something here: Edwards should cut a deal with Gore early on to be climate czar with Cabinet-level status. That along with cutting a deal with... [More]
March 27, 2007
The Coming Conservative Crack-Up
Kevin Drum, riffing off a post by John Quiggin, has an interesting take today on some of the potential reasons we're seeing growing fissures within Bush and Reagan's conservative coalition.... [More]
Conservative Crack-Up Makes Me Crack Up
Hilarious story by ThinkProgress demonstrating how deeply illogical the conservative movement has become. A group known as the Western Business Roundtable sent out an action alert warning its members of... [More]
Chris Bowers Makes a Funny
I realize that this makes me an uber-political-dork, but I don't care. This irritates me to no end: Florida could move its presidential primary to as early as Jan. 29... [More]
March 28, 2007
"How Can We Use The GSA To Help Our Candidates In The Next Election?"
This is unbelievable. I've been following the story about how Karl Rove's shop in the White House attempted to use the GSA, the government's main procurement agency and landlord, to... [More]
"No Religious Test Shall Ever Be Required..."
The US Constitution is very explicit on this matter: Article VI: The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial... [More]
March 31, 2007
Dowd Has a Change of Heart (Updated)
Back in February, Matthew Dowd, a man who once was one of President Bush's closest advisors, wrote what seemed to me to be a deeply conflicted defense of the man... [More]
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