Month: February 2006
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McCain using Bush’s direct mail list?
Robert Novak claims this week that John McCain’s Straight Talk America PAC has obtained access to President Bush’s direct mail list: Major political contributors to George W. Bush who have never given a dime to prospective 2008 Republican presidential candidate John McCain received letters, dated Feb. 8, asking for donations to the senator’s Straight Talk
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Casualties and the media
I’m serving as the discussant for a panel today on “The media and casualties” as part of a Triangle Institute for Security Studies conference on Casualties and Warfare. Here’s the lineup (without me): Panel 7 – The Media and Casualties -Cori Dauber (University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill) -Robert Entman (George Washington University) -Sean
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Bush’s science adviser: Michael Crichton
My friend Chris Mooney has pulled a passage from Fred Barnes’ book Rebel-in-Chief describing President Bush’s meeting with fiction writer Michael Crichton about global warming: Though he didn’t say so publicly, Bush is a dissenter on the theory of global warming. To the extent it’s a problem, Bush believes it can be solved by technology.
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One Note Bob (Herbert)
As David Brooks writes today about the Cheney shooting ($): In normal life, people would look at this event and see two decent men caught in a twist of fate. They would feel concern for the victim and sympathy for the man who fired the gun. But we in Washington are able to rise above
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Center for American Progress: Phony quotes
The latest version of the Progress Report from the disreputable Center for American Progress includes a bunch of phony quotes from President Bush, which CAP bills as a “translated” version of his priorities in his budget: BUSH: ‘TOO MANY POOR KIDS GO TO COLLEGE’… BUSH: ‘OIL COMPANIES AREN’T MAKING ENOUGH MONEY’… BUSH: ‘LEAVING NO CHILD
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Paul Weyrich: Impeachment GOTV
Elite conservatives are very worried about 2006. So how does Paul Weyrich, the influential conservative outsider, respond? By telling his followers that House Democrats will impeach President Bush if they take back the House: The second reason [to vote in 2006] can be reduced to a single word. Impeachment. Right now leftist Members of the
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Will the Nader of ’08 be a conservative?
David Keene, president of the American Conservative Union, warns that a McCain presidential run could lead to a Nader-style third party challenge from an anti-immigrant candidate: Republican divisions also loom in the 2008 presidential race. Arizona Sen. John McCain has joined forces with Kennedy on a guest-worker plan that is anathema to some conservatives. Assuming
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Jon Chait on the “Bush Boom”
There are now 50 pages touting the mythical “Bush Boom” on National Review’s website. Meanwhile, as Jonathan Chait points out, the net effect of President Bush’s economic policies on net jobs is a staggering negative 800,000 once you subtract those created as a result of government spending: [T]he question becomes whether Bush’s tax cuts have
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WSJ: No one claims “all tax cuts pay for themselves”
In an editorial (sub. required) praising the White House’s decision to open an office dedicated to “dynamic” estimates of the effects of tax cut on revenues, the Wall Street Journal editorial board makes yet another disingenuous claim: Expect to read in the coming days from liberal critics that supply-siders are hijacking Treasury to show that
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Dick Cheney’s faith-based economics
On Wednesday, President Bush claimed that tax cuts increase revenue. On Thursday, as the Washington Post reports, Vice President Cheney did the same thing: Vice President Cheney said Thursday night that the verdict is in before the Bush administration’s new tax analysis shop has even opened for business: Tax cuts boost federal government revenue. That