Today, we have further confirmation of the Republican Party’s slide toward policy kookery: Senator John Kyl is “delaying” consideration of the Start treaty that the Obama Administration has negotiated with Russia. This treaty is supported–unanimously–by the U.S. military and widely by prominent Republicans (like former Secretary of State George Schultz). Kyl is playing with fire [...]
Corrected Nov. 17: The Catholic bishops’ surprise election yesterday of New York’s Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan as their president is more bad news for Obama in 2012. Dolan is a conservative who [cut: opposes communion for politicians who support abortion rights and] said Notre Dame made a mistake choosing Obama for its graduation speaker. Democrats [...]
Last night, I caught the tail end of Glenn Beck’s Fox News show. He was imploring his viewers to divest themselves of the extra things in their lives–have a garage sale, open an eBay account, etc.–and use the proceeds to invest in food storage. The reason, he argued, was the coming inflation that free-spending liberals [...]
Remember last summer when Republicans were warning about the scary lame duck? The ruling Democrats, warned GOP candidates and incumbents alike, are going to try and sneak through all manner of controversial bills against the will of the American people. House Republicans even introduced not one but two resolutions calling on Dems to not pass [...]
Mitch McConnell didn’t bother to conceal the reason he caved to the anti-earmark faction of the Republican Party: he sensed the political winds were kicking up, so he tacked to safe ground. “Make no mistake,” McConnell, who by himself requested nearly $1 billion dollars in earmarks since 2008, said Monday. “I know the good that [...]
It involves large condoms. This video just includes so much in such a short amount of time. Is there any cultural artifact from 2010 that more perfectly captures the state of our nation? Put this in the history books, play it on the exploratory satellites, carve it in our corn fields. To quote Hamlet, “For [...]
On Sunday McClatchy dropped its months-long investigation of U.S. construction projects in Afghanistan. The picture is not pretty and an unsettling metaphor for the nine-year war effort emerges: A McClatchy investigation has found that since January 2008, nearly $200 million in U.S. Army Corps of Engineers construction projects in Afghanistan have failed, face serious delays [...]
