Well, i’m back…and so much has changed in the last week! Not really. In fact the tragic myopia of the Bush administration seems to have intensified. This, from Dana Perino, is downright hilarious: At the front of the House chamber, Democrats positioned a blown-up photograph of Mr. Bush standing on the carrier deck on May [...]
TotT is a daily rundown of campaign events, compiled by Katie Rooney. While all of the Republican presidential candidates are getting ready for their turn at the podium at tomorrow’s debate, at least three of them are arriving in California a little early to do some pre-debate campaigning. Today Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) holds another [...]
President Bush’s veto of the $124 billion Iraq spending bill puts the congressional Republicans in a spot where they haven’t been since last year: They actually matter. While Democrats have yet to decide precisely what they plan to do, the sense I’m getting from talking to leadership sources is that, in the face of the [...]
Tucker Carlson is, right now, interviewing actual whores on MSNBC about the ethics of revealing clients’ names: “This seems like a violation of a code.” Insert bloggers’ ethics panel joke here. UPDATE: A colleague writes: “That’s a first.” Actual whores on cable news not so much a first, ones that get paid for sex, well, [...]
On a day when one GOP candidate endorsed the origin myth of Psychlos, I’d be remiss not to draw your attention to the candidate who thought that ferret owners were psycho: “There is something deranged about you.… The excessive concern you have for ferrets is something you should examine with a therapist.… There is something [...]
A reminder that George Bush’s vision for Iraq has been evolving for quite some time.
This makes Bush’s “my favorite philosopher is Jesus” answer look positively Lincoln-esque: When asked his favorite novel in an interview shown yesterday on the Fox News Channel, Mitt Romney pointed to “Battlefield Earth,” a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology. That book was turned into a film by John Travolta, a Scientologist. [...]
TotT is a daily rundown of campaign events, compiled by Katie Rooney. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) celebrates last week’s official entrance into the presidential race with a fundraising reception in Westminster, Calif. tonight at 6 p.m. hosted by a local assemblyman. But not just anyone can get into this party — it costs $1,000 per [...]
