I never compete with a master. Please see Keith Olberman on David Kuo’s new book, Tempting Faith….
Hiding from the Evening News on the back porch at the grill, I overheard Bush saying the Republicans were going to stay in power in Congress because "gas prices are down," the "tax cuts are working," and the "stock market is booming." I may be paraphrasing him, but that was the gist of it. I […]
Well, there is a pretty impressive lineup of witnesses for the probe into the Foley scandal and how it was handled: today, former Pages; tommorow, Kirk Fordham; soon, Jeff Trandahl. I have a really creative idea. How about calling former Congressman Mark Foley to testify? He’s the guy who knows what he did, who talked […]
I was a little surprised by the Harpers article that implied a widespread knowledge in the media community about the initial Foley Emails, the ones apparently leaked from Rodney Alexander’s office. I was curious about TalkingPointsMemo and the AMERICAblog particularly. John Aravosis of AMERICAblog responded that he had seen them, but they were passed on […]
When I first read about the Foley scandal, he’d just resigned. That evening, on the news, Bryan Ross seemed as surprised as the rest of us. He’d reported the Emails Foley had sent a former Page in Louisiana asking personal questions, his age, and requesting a picture, including the boy’s comments, "sick, sick, sick…" After […]
GOP Officials Brace for Loss Of Seven to 30 House Seats … The GOP’s emerging strategy on the Foley scandal is to try to limit losses among conservative voters who are expressing alarm about the scandal and about the apparent failure of GOP leaders to act on early warnings about Foley’s behavior. As part of […]
I’m having something of an odd, but recurrent, thought this morning. For the last several years, the claim that the Democrats don’t have a "program or a "strong position" has bothered me every time I’ve heard it. And a version that has haunted me is from Karl Rove’s speech last year: But perhaps the most […]
Dr. Dobson Responds to Liberal Attacks over Foley Situation What does the reprehensible behavior of a now-disgraced gay Republican congressman have to do with Christian conservatives?… While much ado is being made about the Mark Foley scandal’s effect of the November elections, that’s not the central point. Of course Democrats, Progressives, and a lot of […]
Dr. Dobson Responds to Liberal Attacks over Foley Situation What does the reprehensible behavior of a now-disgraced gay Republican congressman have to do with Christian conservatives? Nothing, says the founder of Focus on the Family Action. … Speaking on his nationally syndicated radio program, Dobson made a point of distinguishing between the actual behavior of […]