Month: January 2006
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McCain liberal hatred watch III
How long will everyone love the senator from Arizona? Based on this Franklin Foer post from TNR’s blog The Plank, not long: Earlier this week Hotline excerpted a dispatch on a forthcoming John McCain visit to South Carolina. Buried inside there was a stunning revelation. It quoted McCain’s spokesman, one Richard Quinn. He described McCain
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Fox News: Fair and balanced
The graphic tagline for a discussion on Fox News that I saw this morning: “Is Wall Street worried liberals are forgetting 9/11?”
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Ed Gillespie signs on with George Allen
Much is being made of former RNC chair Ed Gillespie’s decision to sign on with George Allen’s PAC — an important sign of establishment support for the Virginia Senator’s 2008 campaign. Does that mean Gillespie isn’t concerned about Allen’s ugly racial history? Does he even know about it?
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Dick Cheney on the rule of law: Up is down
Andrew Sullivan nails my reaction to Dick Cheney’s nonsense: Try reconciling what we know for a fact about what the administration has done and the words uttered by the vice-president yesterday: I was in Washington in the 1970s, at a time when there was great and legitimate concern about civil liberties and about potential abuses
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What is Howard Fineman talking about?
Via Dan Drezner, Newsweek conventional wisdom machine Howard Fineman has published a typically insipid column on MSNBC.com on “winners” and “losers” from the Jack Abramoff plea agreement. His prediction of a reformist third party winning the 2008 election “going away” is especially absurd: WINNERSThird-party reform movement: If Sen. John McCain doesn’t win the Republican presidential
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The Hotline on McCain, the GOP and the South
The insider political newsletter The Hotline has a new blog called Hotline On Call that features an excellent post asking how Senator John McCain will handle the tricky issue of race in the GOP primaries — a timely question given his recent praise for Trent Lott and George Wallace, Jr. Near the end, the Hotline
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Bush parses his “Nothing has changed” statement
While I was out of town, President Bush finally addressed the worst example from his long list of statements in 2004-2005 implying that all wiretaps require a court order. On April 20, 2004, he said: Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government
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WSJ touts flawed poll showing popular support for NSA program
This time, our friends at the Wall Street Journal editorial page are touting a poorly worded poll on the NSA’s warrant-free domestic surveillance program: Even more unserious has been the political posturing and mock horror that followed this month’s revelations of the National Security Agency’s warrantless phone intercepts. It’s refreshing to know that 64% of