Well, that’s the practical effect of what this GOP pollster is saying in this memo to GOP Poohbah Ken Mehlman, urging Republicans not to distance themselves from Bush: To: Ken MehlmanFrom: Jan van LohuizenDate: March 3, 2006Re: Bush — Congressional Republicans Per our conversation, we took another look at the way voters, Republicans specifically, link President Bush and Republicans in … Read More
Lying To SCOTUS — Not A Good Idea
The full story is here; I’ll just give the funny bits. Today, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear the case of Rumsfled v. Hamdan. At issue in the case is whether a provision in last year’s Detainee Treatment Act ("DTA") effectively strips the Court of jurisdiction to hear Hamdan’s case. The Government contends that it does. In support of … Read More
White House Infighting
The rumors are apparently true. Rove is cooperating with the Fitzgerald investigation, and pointing investigators to the Cheney office. It was Rove, reports say, who informed Fitzgerald about the "missing" emails from the VP’s office. From The Washington Note: According to several Pentagon sources close to Rove and others familiar with the inquiry, Bush’s senior adviser tipped off Special Prosecutor … Read More
Rearranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic
The news that Andrew Card is resigning as Chief of Staff is not entirely unexpected, but it hardly represents a sea change in the way the White House will operate. His replacement is budget director and former deputy chief of staff Josh Bolton. It does not, as The New York Times notes, "represent an infusion of new blood." This is … Read More
Carter Blogs
Jimmy Carter responds to questions over at Daily Kos.
Tell Us How You Really Feel
Curbstone Critic, citing Will Durst: I don’t know about you guys, but I am so sick and tired of these lying, thieving, holier-than-thou, right-wing, cruel, crude, rude, gauche, coarse, crass, cocky, corrupt, dishonest, debauched, degenerate, dissolute, swaggering, lawyer shooting, bullhorn shouting, infrastructure destroying, hysterical, history defying, finger-pointing, puppy stomping, roommate appointing, pretzel choking, collateral damaging, aspersion casting, wedding party bombing, … Read More
The Block Study – A Closer Look
Conservatives in the right blogosphere are apparently put off by the Block study, and are making efforts to punch holes in it. So having made the study available, I decided to take a closer look. Most of the criticism from the right focuses around the fact that the research was done at Berkeley, and Berkeley is a hot-bed of liberalism. … Read More
The Straw That Broke The Conservative’s Back
Discussing the Georgia v. Randolph case (which I touched upon here), A-list blogger John Cole – a staple in the right blogosphere – announces that he has had enough: My 20 year affair with the Republican party is coming to an end. I am not voting for any Republican in 2006 at any level, and I will be hard pressed … Read More
Cheney’s “Performance Contract”
Thinking of hiring Dick Cheney to come to your speaking event? Here’s his list of demands (click to enlarge): "All lights turned on"? What’s the matter? He can’t do this for himself? And "extra lamps" (in handwriting at the bottom)? He’s probably going to do some interrogatin’. Maybe a bare bulb hanging from the ceiling would be best. "All … Read More
Bush Bites
(1) Tuesday, Bush said this: Mr. Zarqawi and al Qaeda, the very same people that attacked the United States, have made it clear that they want to drive us out of Iraq so they can plan, plot, and attack America again. This is just one of the many many things that Bush says that just floats across the screen into … Read More
“Whiny Babies Lead To Conservatives” Study
For psychology geeks and students, I’m uploading and making available the Berkeley study I wrote about earlier — the one that says that whiny insecure babies tend to grow up with a conservative political orientation, whereas self-assured babies tend to become liberal. Download it by clicking here. It’s in PDF format.
Game Set Match
The Corner’s John Derbyshire on the "Whiny Babies Grow Up To Be Conservatives" Study: From the report on that study: "Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative. At least, he … Read More
“See? If You Just Shield Your Eyes Like This, It’s Easy!”
The AP headline: Bush Asks U.S. to Look Past Iraq Bloodshed The accompanying photo: I think the folks at AP are havin’ a little fun today.
Our Pro-Cancer President
Last week, the he U.S. Congress approved a $781 billion increase in the legal borrowing limit for the federal government, raising the debt ceiling to nine trillion dollars (that’s 30,000 for every man, woman, and child in America). All this to accomodate Bush’s psychotic spending, coupled with tax cuts for the wealthy. So where, if anywhere, is the Bush Administration … Read More
Conservatives: Grown-up Whiny Babies
That’s not an ad hominem attack. That’s what a couple of sociologists found out: In the 1960s Jack Block and his wife and fellow professor Jeanne Block (now deceased) began tracking more than 100 nursery school kids as part of a general study of personality. The kids’ personalities were rated at the time by teachers and assistants who had known … Read More