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The attack machine versus Cindy Sheehan
The conservative attack machine is starting to turn up the heat against Cindy Sheehan, the mother who has turned her son’s death in Iraq into a crusade against the war. They know that her vigil outside President Bush’s Texas ranch could become a potent anti-war symbol if she isn’t smeared into submission first. Enter (surprise!)
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Pirro: Gone in 32 seconds?
Via Wonkette, Crooks and Liars has posted a devastating Democratic ad that mocks Jeanine Pirro’s 32-second pause during her announcement speech. This race may be over before it begins…
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More on NARAL ad
Following up on my post from yesterday, the NARAL ad against John Roberts is already drawing criticism from prominent NARAL allies: Within the larger liberal coalition of which Naral is a part, there was considerable uneasiness about the advertisement, although leaders of other groups generally refused to speak on the record. One who did, Frances
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The decline in Bush approval is real
Via Mickey Kaus, Mark Blumenthal, aka the Mystery Pollster, has a great post showing that the decline in President Bush’s approval numbers during 2005 shows up in almost every major national poll. It is not an artifact of any one poll, as some have claimed.
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The Times rakes Jeanine Pirro over the coals
Though she’s not well known statewide, Jeanine Pirro could potentially make Hillary Clinton work a little bit in her Senate re-election race. In principle, Pirro fits the perfect profile for a Hillary opponent — a moderate, pro-choice woman. This allows her to portray Hillary as too liberal and neutralizes any advantage Clinton might gain with
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Frist supports ’08 rival Allen
A brief note on the strange customs of legislator-to-legislator campaign donations. Peter Hardin has an article on Senator George Allen’s fundraising for his 2006 re-election campaign. Allen already has more than $5 million in the bank — and no opponent. That means that, like Hillary Clinton, he is likely to have millions of dollars left
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“He said”/”she said” goes op-ed
Via Kevin Drum, here’s an excellent post from my friend Chris Mooney on the way USA Today has taken the awful “he said”/”she said” approach to journalism (which we denounce in ATPS) and applied it to op-eds: Just because your editorial page takes a stance in favor of evolution, that doesn’t mean you have to
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The self-absorption of Charles Schumer
According to the New York Times, Senate Judiciary chairman Arlen Specter wrote a letter to Supreme Court nominee John Roberts that “raises pointed questions about two recent court decisions invalidating legislation Congress passed under its authority to regulate interstate commerce.” Chuck Schumer’s reaction? To act like he made up the idea, and refer to himself
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NARAL tries to stir up Roberts fight
Let the interest group hysteria begin! NARAL, playing the role of the middle school crowd that taunts kids into fighting each other, has released a nasty ad that “accuses Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. of siding with violent extremists and a convicted clinic bomber while serving in the solicitor general’s office,” as the
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Andy Kindler saves the world
If you haven’t heard about him before, you should know about Andy Kindler, a comic the New York Times profiled last week who is near-legendary in the industry for mocking his colleagues: Among those things in past years have been a joke-by-joke deconstruction of a Robin Williams HBO special and an offer of $1 million