Actually, Ana, Bush is lifting this line from Ryan Crocker, who used it no fewer than twice during the hearings. Guess the President was watching an awful lot of CSPAN last week.
The “DREAM Act” would allow undocumented high school graduates with no criminal record who have been the country for at least five years (and who entered the country before they were 16) a form of “conditional” legal status. They then must complete two years of college or two years of service in the military. In [...]
Favorite surreal moment of this Bush presser so far: “People ask me, where’s Mandela? Well, Mandela’s DEAD! Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas.” It took me a second to realize the exact kind of cultural analogy he was making; at first I thought that, in the tradition of 2003, Bush had simply just tacked the [...]
Reading the presidential polls this year–particularly on the Republican side of the ledger–it looks almost as though there are two elections going on. Romney has a comfortable (and growing) lead in Iowa and New Hampshire, and yet he’s not getting much traction in the national polls. The latest Gallup Poll has Romney mired in the [...]
Senate Democrats have been dealt a major setback on the legislation that had been considered their best hope for changing the course of the Iraq War. John McCain, ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, has announced that he and the influential John Warner will be sponsoring a symbolic “sense of the Senate” amendment instead. [...]
Matt Yglesias is totally right about this: Clinton’s position on an undivided Jerusalem is a dreadful pander and very much against (a) reality and (b) our long-term interests in the region.
Mickey Kaus sidles to the defense of Drudge here. What neither Mickey nor Drudge seems to understand is that Clinton wasn’t proposing proof of health insurance as a requirement for work, but merely speculating on the sort of details that would be worked out in Congress. Two other thoughts about this: First, the simplest way [...]
I know this is old news, but this guy is shameless. The headline, with a photo of a three-quarters crazed Hillary, is HEALTH INSURANCE PROOF REQUIRED FOR WORK but the linked story says this: At this point, we don’t have anything punitive that we have proposed,” the presidential candidate said in an interview with The [...]
This comes to us by way of Marc Ambinder: “Thank you AFSCME!” That was how New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson closed his speech to the SEIU membership in Washington today. SEIU is many things, but it is not AFSCME — the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. AFSCME is, in many states, an [...]
