The Huffington Post’s front page this morning couldn’t sum it up better: The top article from today’s WaPo has a little gentler headline: Key Setbacks Dim Luster of Democrats’ Year Having been a close follower of politics for over 25 years, I keep thinking back to 1995. Bill Clinton was in the White House and […]
This is a serious question that must be investigated: Executives at the two biggest phone companies contributed more than $42,000 in political donations to Senator John D. Rockefeller IV this year while seeking his support for legal immunity for businesses participating in National Security Agency eavesdropping. The surge in contributions came from a Who’s Who […]
For years right wingers would taunt out the fact that Democrats were in the minority. That minority was very slim though. Both times Bush won the White House, it was so damn close. So these same wingnuts who so boldly reminded us of our minority status over the past several years now find themselves in […]
Yesterday the Republicans filibustered the Webb amendment, which would have given our troops equal time home as in combat. This was a certain show that the Republicans do not support our troops. So today they are supporting the troop. Senate is getting ready to take up debate on a Republican resolution condemning Move On over […]
Newsweek just released a new poll with Bush at a 28% approval rating. Even worse for the Republicans is their future. Here is the breakdown by who will win in which match-up: While the poll has some high marks for Clinton, it’s not all good news. Though the New York senator and former first lady […]
Looks like George hit a new low! From the WSJ: President Bush’s approval rating slipped to new lows in the most recent Harris Interactive survey, but he’s not alone: For the first time since the series began, all of the political figures and institutions included in the survey have negative performance ratings. Of the 1,001 […]
We already have the primary battlegrounds changing, as states rush to move their dates up earlier. Now we got George Will saying that Republicans need to give up on Ohio in 2008: In the last 24 elections, since 1912, winners of the presidency won a plurality of the states along the Mississippi. Today the Republican […]
You think the White House would have learned something last November, but obviously that is wrong: The president with the fewest vetoes in more than a century, George W. Bush is poised to make up for lost time as congressional Democrats move legislation the White House says is unacceptable. In the past week alone the […]
That is Bush’s latest approval rating according to a new New York Times/CBS poll. Most damage is also coming from within his own party now: In the months since the Congressional elections, President Bush has lost substantial support among members of his own party, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll. Mr. Bush’s […]
Looks like Americans are still not pleased with Iraq, no matter how many new catch phrases the administration comes up with: Negative assessments of the war in Iraq — the central issue in last month’s midterm election — continue to hold down President Bush’s job approval ratings and could cast a pall on the final […]