Month: November 2004
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The apparent answer to the bulge mystery
From The Hill: But sources in the Secret Service told The Hill that Bush was wearing a bulletproof vest, as he does most of the time when appearing in public. The president’s handlers did not want to admit as much during the campaign, for fear of disclosing information related to his personal security while he
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Can you feel the love?
Grover Norquist is flagged by the Moose sharing this piece of post-election wisdom: Once the minority of House and Senate are comfortable in their minority status, they will have no problem socializing with the Republicans. Any farmer will tell you that certain animals run around and are unpleasant, but when they’ve been fixed, then they
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Silver lining search III
The hunt continues — here’s Amy Sullivan on the Washington Monthly’s blog: COULD DELAY BE THE NEXT DASCHLE?….Although Tom DeLay’s Texas redistricting plan succeeded in knocking off some veteran Democratic congressmen, he should be more than a little worried about the safety of his own seat in the next election. Democrats have already fixed on
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Silver lining search II
An email from the Washington Monthly with the subject line “Obama, ’08?”
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Silver lining search I
The desperate search for a silver lining to today’s result begins — here’s Howard Dean in an email to the Democracy for America list today: [A] record number of us voted to change course — more Americans voted against George Bush than any sitting president in history.”
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Futurist nonsense
Here’s the dumbest thing I’ve heard in a long time. Listening to NPR at about 6:30, Andrew Zolli, a so-called “futurist”, endorsed Joe Trippi’s idea that in 2008 we could have three presidential candidates – a Democrat, a Republican and “an Internet candidate.” I have to ask: what the hell does that mean? Almost everyone
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Partisanship and participation
All signs are pointing to a surge in turnout today. One obvious conclusion is that tough, vigorous and, yes, partisan campaigns about important issues are in some ways a very good thing. There’s just no question that colorful, high stakes races like Kerry/Bush boost turnout. The emotional politics of the Gilded Age, for instance, helped
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Hoping for a definitive result tonight
Matt Bai has
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Election eve Limbaugh smears
An utterly disreputable Rush Limbaugh rant trying to link Kerry and the Democrats to OBL: We are under attack. The truth is that we have been under attack for many years by the same type of people who think in the same way fanatic Islamists have been attacking freedom and Americans for over 20 years.