Month: March 2006
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Media recognizing that Bush is unpopular?
It’s striking that the media narrative is finally shifting to acknowledge the fact that Bush is a very unpopular president. Here’s a brutal but accurate excerpt from the Washington Post: Bush’s problems go beyond the fatigue factor [among his staff]. An unpopular foreign war, high energy prices and the nation’s worst natural disaster in decades
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Paul Krugman on John McCain
America’s most influential liberal columnist tries to get the anti-McCain backlash going: It’s time for some straight talk about John McCain. He isn’t a moderate. He’s much less of a maverick than you’d think. And he isn’t the straight talker he claims to be. No more bipartisan love for you!
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Toni Morrison pushes Bennett smear
In a fundraising letter for Southern Poverty Law Center (JPEG), Nobel Prize winner Toni Morrison pushes the myth that conservative pundit Bill Bennett advocated the abortion of black babies to reduce crime. She writes: With former Secretary of Education William Bennett talking about the abortion of black babies to curb crime and with hurricane Katrina
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Deleted from Google
Anyone know why I would be deleted from Google? All of a sudden, hundreds of posts are no longer indexed. In fact, as far as Google is concerned, this site doesn’t exist at all. The only reason I can think of is that they didn’t like a slight search hack I had running in the
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George W. Bush is not a “Texas rancher”
It’s sad how easily the press gets taken in by biographical spin. Time describes President Bush as a “Texas rancher” dispensing homespun wisdom in an article this week: White House officials contend that Bush quickly realized the ports affair was a fiasco. “I know a prairie fire when I see one,” the Texas rancher told
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John McCain’s straw poll follies
As predicted, John McCain is starting to realize that his party’s activist base doesn’t like him: Facing a loss at a 2008 straw poll event this weekend, Senator John McCain of Arizona told his supporters to write in President Bush [?] as a sign of support, leaving many sputtering. “For the next three years, with
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CBPP: Tax cuts don’t pay for themselves
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has published the definitive case against the claim that tax cuts pay for themselves. Here are the key findings from the report: -Despite recent statements by the President, Vice President, and certain Congressional leaders that tax cuts pay for themselves by stimulating economic growth, revenues over the past
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A brief etymology of “Christianist”
I don’t know if anyone has noticed, but Andrew Sullivan seems to be on a crusade (no pun intended) to popularize the term “Christianist.” He’s used it on his blog more than twenty times over the last three years, especially during the last few months. The goal, it seems, is to draw an analogy with
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All the President’s Spin finalist for Lulu Blooker Prize
Self-promotion alert: All the President’s Spin is a finalist for The Lulu Blooker Prize, which is a new award created to honor “blooks” — ie books based on blogs. Update 3/11: Our nomination was mentioned in the Philadelphia Inquirer today.
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Inspirational leadership: Bush’s Oval Office rug story
The hallmark of President Bush’s communication style is numbing repetition of the same anecdotes, jokes and misleading spin. So it’s not surprising that he’s even on message about the (apparently fascinating) Oval Office rug: For whatever reason, Bush seems fixated on his [Oval Office] rug. Virtually all visitors to the Oval Office find him regaling