Charles McGee, former Executive Director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, is sending out invitations for a “GOP Campaign School”, where attendees can learn the "nuts and bolts" about running GOP political campaigns. From the indictment, here’s what McGee did as Executive Director of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee: In or about October 2002, Charles McGee, Executive Director … Read More
Ah, The Counterculture
It’s about fucking time we had some good protest songs —
Official English
I honestly hope these people have better things to do than debate whether or not English is America’s "national language" or a "common and unifying language". Either way, the piece of legislation is symbolic, since you can’t enforce anything. Aren’t there real problems out there that need addressing in real ways, rather than symbolic ones? Of course, the legislation is … Read More
C’mon In, Utah And Idaho — The Water’s BLUE!!
Bush approval rating, state by state — today: Here’s how it looked a year ago: H/T: Daily Kos
Quote Of The Day
President Bush declaring that May 29 (aka "Memorial Day") be known as "a day of prayer for permanent peace" is "just a bit like Charles Manson declaring a mental-health day."
Congressional Hearing Gets Catty
Everyone’s paying attention to the Senate confirmation hearings of General Hayden today, but it looks like all the fun stuff is happening in the other Senate hearing rooms.
White House = Fox News
WH Press Secretary Tony Snow, yesterday: MR. SNOW: "Well, as I pointed out — I mentioned this yesterday, and for — let me see if I can find my quote, because I pulled it out. Chuck Hagel, as you may recall, made a fair amount of news over the weekend when he first said that — let’s see — "Well, … Read More
Behind The 29%
A conservative blogger writes: George W. Bush isn’t at 29 percent because he’s lost support among moderates and liberals – he’s at 29 percent because he has been too willing to cave in to moderates and liberals. The recipe for restoring his popularity to above 50 percent is simple: Bush must screw the Left every chance he gets. The premise … Read More
You Know It’s Bad When…
Cheney appears to have lost the support of Rush Limbaugh: It’s worth noting that Cheney was on for 13 minutes — and there wasn’t a single softball question during the entire interview. Consider some of Limbaugh’s queries: * Is the President — are you and the President, the administration aware of the dissatisfaction on the whole issue of illegal immigration … Read More
Unholy Alliance
Time magazine, June 1998: "The G.O.P. could lose its narrow 11-seat majority in the House if it didn’t find a way to galvanize its grass-roots activists, many of whom are Christian conservatives." New York Times, May 13, 2006: Some of President Bush’s most influential conservative Christian allies are becoming openly critical of the White House and Republicans in Congress, warning … Read More
The Week Ahead
So much to write about, so little time. I don’t have much to say about Bush’s approval rating breaking the 30% mark (last week’s Harris poll puts him at 29%). And the fallout over the NSA datamining of telecom records continues. But I’m looking forward to this week. There are two rumors which are getting the buzz: (1) Rove indicted … Read More
Laura Doesn’t Believe Bad Polls
From Reuters: Interviewed on Fox News Sunday, Laura Bush said she did not think people were losing confidence in President George W. Bush, despite a series of polls showing support for him at its lowest point in his five-year presidency and among the lowest for any president in the past 50 years. "I don’t really believe those polls. I travel … Read More
If Al Gore Was President
I don’t watch Saturday Night Live anymore, but I regret not seeing Al Gore open the show this past weekend. He spoke as President Al Gore, looking back on his six years in office. Crooks and Liars has video. A snippet: As I speak, the gigantic national budget surplus is down to a perilously low $11 trillion dollars. And don’t … Read More
“Impeach Bush!”
In case you haven’t been paying attention, that’s been the rally cry from the rightwing side of the blogosphere. Why? Because the Bush Administration reportedly has been shadowing the Minutemen (the group of private citizens monitoring the U.S.-Mexican border for illegal immigrants), and reporting information about Minutemen groups (including their locations) to the Mexican government. Michelle Malkin started the fire … Read More
HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson Should Resign
What a pinhead. According to this story, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson took away a government contract from a business, all because the business owner mentioned that he didn’t like Bush. How do we know this happened? Because Jackson himself bragged about it. In fact, he told the story as a warning to a conference of other potential … Read More