Month: August 2005
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WSJ agitprop on CBO report
In an editorial today (subscription required), our friends at the Wall Street Journal make a series of mendacious claims about the new CBO report, which notes a surge in revenue in this fiscal year: [T]his windfall means that tax revenue as a share of the economy is climbing back to normal levels. As the nearby
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Murdoch and Hillary: Strange bedfellows?
Here’s David Carr on favorable coverage of Hillary Clinton by the New York Post: Both sides could benefit from the thaw. The News Corporation is in the midst of a counteroffensive against a change in the Nielsen ratings that it says undercounts minorities, and that, oh, by the way, could cripple its local stations… Mr.
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Democrats appease activists on Roberts
After conceding that Roberts is going to get confirmed, Democrats were accused of rolling over by lefty interest groups, so they now have to run around squawking for the benefit of NARAL et al: Major liberal groups accused Democratic senators yesterday of showing too little stomach for opposing John G. Roberts Jr.’s Supreme Court nomination,
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AP: “$50 laptop sale sets off violent stampede”
Via Wonkette, this AP story is almost literally unbelievable: A rush to purchase $50 used laptops turned into a violent stampede Tuesday, with people getting thrown to the pavement, beaten with a folding chair and nearly driven over. One woman went so far as to wet herself rather than surrender her place in line. Clearly
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Dem opposition to Roberts collapsing
Looks like I was right — this is not a winnable fight for the Democrats: Democrats have decided that unless there is an unexpected development in the weeks ahead, they will not launch a major fight to block the Supreme Court nomination of John G. Roberts Jr., according to legislators, Senate aides and party strategists.
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DeLay vs DeLay
Tom DeLay quoted in the Boston Globe (10/9/98) speaking about Bill Clinton: “I believe that this nation sits at a crossroads. One direction points to the higher road of the rule of law… Now, the other road is the path of least resistance. This is where we start making exceptions to our laws based on
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What are Tom Curry and Bob Brigham talking about?
The Internet politics bubble continues. Tom Curry has a story on MSNBC.com that opens with this lead: Democratic bloggers say they are beginning to transform the way political campaigns are run, pointing to their recent success in raising more than $550,000 for Democratic congressional candidate Paul Hackett, a Marine veteran of the Iraq war, who
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Steve Forbes spouts supply side nonsense
The politically convenient but intellectually unsupportable claim that tax cuts increase revenue will not go away. Today, Steve Forbes follows President Bush’s example in the Wall Street Journal (subscription required): How would a flat tax do this? What so many “experts” can’t grasp is that taxes are not only a means of raising revenue for
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Democracy vs. spending restraint
The New York Times reports on the division over spending among conservatives, who are in the process of eating their young in Colorado and elsewhere for not cutting spending enough. The solution they’re proposing? Constitutional limits at the state level: Conservative frustration with government growth increased with President Bush’s first term, which added more than
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Lowered expectations in Iraq
Is the Bush administration rejoining the reality-based community? The Bush administration is significantly lowering expectations of what can be achieved in Iraq, recognizing that the United States will have to settle for far less progress than originally envisioned during the transition due to end in four months, according to U.S. officials in Washington and Baghdad.