I do my best to watch a few Countdown episodes a week, and the one I caught yesterday was classic. Olbermann broke it down Edward R. Murrow style. He illustrated the fascist approach that Rumsfield and the Bush administration take...
Former Virginia governor and potential Democratic presidential candidate Mark Warner is wading deeper into the 2008 pool by signaling his ability to win the South—unlike, say, a certain former First Lady....
Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld lashed out at critics of his war policies by essentially calling them pussies and likened them to Nazi appeasers before WWII. "Can we truly afford to believe that somehow, some way, vicious extremists can be...
As I mentioned yesterday, there's a very good reason why regular Americans aren't feeling the much ballyhooed economic expansion President Bush's gang keeps pushing—working folks are left out of the party. Some more indicators come from today's Census Bureau report...
So, what do you do when your favorite political party desperately scrambles to maintain its image among voters as the party that will protect you against all enemies, terrorists, and bogeymen while its war of choice wallows in the rising...
According to the New York Times, American workers are producing more and earning less, exacerbating the vanishing of our working middle class. The federal government started collecting data in 1947 and not since then have wages and salaries made up...
"If we can't win in this environment, we have to question the whole premise of the party." --James Carville on the Democrats' chances this fall. Bloomberg's Al Hunt quotes Carville as saying you'd have to look all the way back...
Down from a 12-point lead just a week ago, Lieberman now holds just a two-point advantage over Lamont with the Republican candidate polling at a paltry 3%....
Not only is Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt a shameful opportunist who attacks decorated war veterans on the floor of the House of Representatives, she's also a God damned liar. Her apparent fib has her claiming some impressive numbers on the...
The president's latest pivot on the "war on terror" illustrates the lack of understanding he has for what is going on. The idea of a war on terror has already been ridiculed to death by people funnier and smarter than...
I've been wondering how Ralph Reed's implication in the whole Abramoff mess would mess up the Christian Coalition. During his tenure as head of that organization, its ranks swelled and its influence over the Republican party grew enormously. Like any...
In case anyone was confused as to why Republicans (and the RNC) is either explicitly or implicitly supporting Joe Lieberman's Independent run in Connecticut, Right Wing News has the answer: ...as we speak, millions of dollars are pouring into Connecticut,...
While watching the evening news these last few days, I learned that the Bush Administration has allocated something like $50 million in aid to Lebanon to help with the obvious humanitarian crisis that now exists there. No problem there. However,...
In an odd acknowledgement today, President Bush said, " "We're not leaving [Iraq] so long as I'm the president. That would be a huge mistake." The president still has two and a half more years in office. Had enough yet?...
March 2003: "We're dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction..." That was Paul Wolfowitz on how the cost to American taxpayers to fund the Iraq invasion would be defrayed. Iraq is an oil-rich nation and once...
"I said something stupid. I apologize for it and would apologize in person to anyone hurt by my comments. To those who are understandably offended, you have my deepest apologies and I want you to know that it was out...
The Hill has a rundown of the hottest people in the Capitol and hotdamn if there aren't some hotties working up in there. Just check out #3 Lauren Huly, 23 (pictured) who is Communications Director for Rep. Louie Gohmert...
So, the air still has not cleared in the wake of a decision by Reuters to publish an obviously doctored photo by photographer Adnan Hajj of columns of smoke rising from a Beirut suburb following an Israeli air strike....
Taking a page from the Karl Rove playbook by trying to hit the Republicans where their perceived strength lies, The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee launched a scathing ad illustrating how the Administration's failures in homeland security and foreign policy have...
The debate among conservatives over what their movement stands for anymore continues. Summing it up perfectly (again) is the always excellent Andrew Sullivan: It may be that turning conservatism into a religiously-centered Southern-based, big-government movement makes electoral sense. I doubt...
These were the top two headlines on Yahoo News at 10:45 pm: Rockets hit Lebanon despite cease-fire (AP) Bush says Israel defeated Hezbollah (AP) Heck of a job, Olmert!...
Ned Lamont is proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is indeed a political newbie. The man who just knocked out one of the most powerful Democratic Senators in a tooth and nail primary contest is shocked and...
In a shocking turn of events, the RNC Chairman switches sides and joins Democrats in demanding the administration abandon their "Stay the Course" mentality in Iraq and make some changes. Well, not quite. But Mehlman is desperately trying to distance...
The comments about the "war on terror" and the "war in Iraq" that Joe Lieberman has made vis-à-vis the discovery of the bombing plot on airliners is one of the problems with why people have a tendency to think more...
In what was bar-none the most watched primary in the nation, three-time US Senator and former Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman lost to political newbie Ned Lamont. But don't think for a minute you won't have old Joe to...
It's hard to imagine Kansas as a hotbed of radical liberalism, but that's exactly what it was in the early decades of the 20th century when they elected socialists and ran robber barons out of town. No, when most people...
One year to the day after President Bush signed into law the energy policy that resulted in billions in tax giveaways to oil, natural gas, and coal industries, the results are in. Instead of the promised relief at the pump,...
In her Owl Farm Blog, Hunter S. Thompson's widow Anita talks to Gary Hart about the Middle East: GH: But we are losing enormous credibility. Bush just didn't want to be involved. So it's a race. It's a race against...
I was watching the Sunday morning talk shows yesterday and was flabbergasted by Cokie Roberts' suggestion that Ned Lamont defeating Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primaries would be "a disaster for the Democratic Party," and comparing this situation to George...
Citing the standard "family obligations" in his decision to give up his re-election bid, Ohio Republican Bob Ney said, "I must think of them first, and I can no longer put them through this ordeal." I'm sure Ney was...
Lest anyone among the ranks of the working poor not know whose side the Republican party is on, look no further than Bill Frist's comments regarding minimum wage hikes. Refusing to address the minimum wage without also slashing inheritance...
Next Tuesday, Joe Lieberman will face his constituents in the Democratic primary. His opponent, Ned Lamont, is a darling of the liberal netsphere and has a double digit lead on old Joe. Lots of people are shocked--SHOCKED!!--that Lieberman is having...
After initially saying he was too busy to testify before Congress, Rummy quickly changed his tune when the heat was turned up and is appearing today. Reports from commanders and one outgoing British diplomat all point to a civil war...
In an interesting couple of reports from Beirut, conservative talking head Tucker Carlson illustrates the importance of liberalism and cultural diversity in the Middle East and the danger we all face if Israel's offensive goes too far....
Following the lead of conservative blogger Powerline, the Moonie Washington Times ran an article falsely claiming that Michigan Rep. John Dingell (D-MI) refused to condemn Hezbollah in a recent discussion on the Mideast crisis. Problem is, both publications are lying....
Is it possible to get to the bottom of things via Senate Commissions or select panels on intelligence? Sadly, we all know the answer is a big fat 'no'. Here's a nice little piece from the Washington Post about the...
I have an acute dislike of Rush Limbaugh. It's not because he's conservative. No, I used to listen daily to G. Gordon Liddy. I am a fan of Andrew Sullivan and even Tucker Carlson (gasp!). I hate Rush Limbaugh because...
As if Howard Dean comparing her to Stalin wasn't bad enough, Katherine Harris now gets a Dear Jane letter from the State Republican Party she used to lord over. In a letter obtained Monday by The Associated Press, Harris is...
It's August in a mid-term year, which means the Fun is about to start! If you live in Ohio, Missouri and Pennsylvania, you might as well turn off your TVs now. Senate Democratic campaign organizations have reserved more than $25...
