The Los Angeles Times’ Michael Finnegan reports this on the paper’s website: Former Tennessee Sen. Fred D. Thompson, who is campaigning for president as a “pro-life” Republican, accepted a lobbying assignment from a family-planning group to persuade the first Bush White House to ease a controversial abortion restriction, according to a 1991 document and five [...]
My fiendish plan worked! Justin has stepped in to explain a bit about the Dems and trade policy: In general, I don’t think the Dem candidates are really all that anti-trade. I certainly haven’t heard them talk about rolling back existing trade agreements or picking Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown as a running mate (although I’ll [...]
Good thing Cheney’s not a member of the executive branch, he’d be almost out of job… Oh, wait… * 45% favor “the US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush;” 46% oppose. * 54% favor “US House of Representatives beginning impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney;” 40% oppose. For context: [...]
Did you know there was another Democratic forum yesterday? It’s true. I completely spaced on it but I’m trying not to feel too bad, as they do happen every other day or so. What I feel a little guilty about is that I’m glad I missed it, because it focused primarily on trade and, as [...]
Another Republican Senator who has staunchly supported the Iraq war turns against it. Democratic leaders rightly question whether New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici’s votes will match his talk, and given what the next few weeks are going to look like on the Senate floor, we will soon know. It’s also true that he–like most of [...]
