So, on election day, we headed north for a two day camping trip. Our planning was great. I wanted to miss the nail biting on election night. The days were, however, after the leaves had peaked, turned brown, and were carpeting the ground. It was also on day one of a two day rainstorm, with […]
Drapes of Wrath This will be known as the year macho politics failed — mainly because it was macho politics by marshmallow men. Voters were sick of phony swaggering, blustering and bellicosity, absent competency and accountability. They were ready to trade in the deadbeat Daddy party for the sheltering Mommy party. … Men who had […]
The Architect Speaks "The profile of corruption in the exit polls was bigger than I’d expected," Rove tells TIME. "Abramoff, lobbying, Foley and Haggard [the disgraced evangelical leader] added to the general distaste that people have for all things Washington, and it just reached critical mass." … And he does not believe his data let […]
We’re off for two days camping in the morning. We’ll have a radio with earphones for my wife, but I’m going to try to wait until it’s all sorted out. The tedium of watching in 2004 was just too damned painful. May our collective Karma and Truth, Justice, and the American Way prevail.
Ted Haggart, one of those evangelical types with a megachurch in Colorado Springs is being outed as having a three year Gay relationship with a homosexual prostitute. What’s with these guys, anyway? Sounds downright Freudian – reaction formation in the specific… Gay escort claims sex tryst with preacher A former gay male escort claims he […]
The current New Republic has an article about a political ad in South Dakota. The ad had a group of doctors supporting a ban on abortion. The ad itself is not the point, being filled with absurds lines like, "Science now proves that life begins at conception" and "Over 96 percent of abortions performed in […]
Ethics Panel Questions Foley’s Ex-Chief of Staff As early as 2000, House Clerk Jeff Trandahl periodically called Fordham to say Foley was spending too much time with pages, the source said, and Fordham would have to "pull him back a little." In brief, awkward conversations, the source said, Fordham would tell Foley: "I just got […]
Bush signings called effort to expand power Report sees broad strategy President Bush’s frequent use of signing statements to assert that he has the power to disobey newly enacted laws is "an integral part" of his "comprehensive strategy to strengthen and expand executive power" at the expense of the legislative branch, according to a report […]
… that you can report suspected Internal Revenue Service Tax Fraud on-line? And you can report it anonymously. Like, for example, let’s say you wanted to report Focus on the Family for blatant political behavior that is way beyond that allowed for a 501(c)(3) organization. You’d go to this I.R.S. site and fill out an […]
There’s something kind of strange going on in the comments section of The Next Hurrah of a post by emptywheel – "You Could Write a Book on the Bad Journalism". A commenter called "charles" jumps in with this: Good morning readers of The Next Hurrah This is my first time commenting here. I feel it […]