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John Kerry is not a popular guy, part 2
More from the John Kerry is not popular files: a Boston Globe poll in Massachusetts finds that Hillary Clinton leads Kerry 33%-21% in a 2008 trail heat among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents in his own state. Ouch.
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Matt Bai buys into the Internet politics bubble
Logical fallacies in action: We have lots of choices now, so political parties will wither on the vine! That sounds pretty silly, but it’s the suggestion that Matt Bai makes in his New York Times Magazine piece on the death of the 527 group called America Coming Together (ACT): ACT represented the first serious challenge
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More attacks on dissent against Sheehan
The smearing of Cindy Sheehan as a traitor continues, as Media Matters documents here and here. Some of the worst offenders: Michael Barone: “Today, we have many in the press — not most, I think, but some at least — who do not want us to win this war and think that we don’t deserve
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The battle of grieving parents over Iraq
The Wall Street Journal ran the inevitable op-ed from a grieving parent whose child was killed in Iraq, which begins, “I lost a son in Iraq and Cindy Sheehan does not speak for me.” This was inevitable because Sheehan and others like her are being treated like martyrs. Maureen Dowd wrote that “the moral authority
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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