Over on Lean Left, Kevin takes note of a Republican strategist saying that the Osama bin Laden tape was “a little gift” for the president and asks a wonderful question: You know, if we really had a liberal press, someone would ask the obvious question: if having OBL on the loose is good for Bush’s [...]
I’m in the camp that thinks it is a big deal that the Bush Administration allowed Osama bin Laden to escape from Tora Bora. Was it because the Bushies had other priorities? Joshua Micah Marshall points to this helpful timeline by Mike over at TopDog04.com. The calendar reminds us that General Tommy Franks was asked [...]
Just to review (from Factcheck.org): A new Bush ad claims Kerry supported cuts in intelligence ?so deep they would have weakened America ?s defenses? against terrorists, and shows a pack of hungry-looking wolves preparing to attack. Actually, the cut Kerry proposed in 1994 amounted to less than 4 percent, as part of a proposal to [...]
It appears that there is yet another government report that is being held up until after the election. The New York Times’ Jim Dwyer reports: One last chapter of the investigation by the Sept. 11 commission, a supplement completed more than two months ago, has not yet been made public by the Justice Department, and [...]
Conservatives are already making excuses for a possible Bush loss. As James Wolcott explains, one front they’ll use is to blame the biased media. Yes. That biased media. The one (to take just one example) that thought that John Kerry’s comment about Mary Cheney in the third presidential debate was more important that George W. [...]
Showing how little shame Bush apologists have, Rudy Giuliani this morning went out of his way to blame the troops for not securing the explosives at Al Qaqaa. Over on Atrios, you can follow a link to a video capture of Rudy’s slur. Can George W. Bush take the blame for anything at all? Or [...]
I wanted to congratulate the Red Sox on ending their 86-year-long curse with their sweep of the Cardinals. As a Cubs fan who went to high school and college in New England, I will miss the many debates I had with my Red Sox fan friends over which of our teams was more pathetic…
Josh Marshall catches President George W. Bush taking reality and trying to twist it into a wild claim. I’m sorry, Mr. President. Your Administration’s failure to catch Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora is not a wild claim. It is a sad reality. And more than enough reason to see to it that you do [...]
Over on The Left Coaster, Steve Soto points out that the Bush Administration’s fear mongering about pre-election terrorist threats appears to have been overblown. As Dan Eggen and Barton Gellman write in the Washington Post: But five weeks after the effort began, U.S. intelligence and law enforcement officials say they have found no direct evidence [...]
Hey, when you only have one policy position that unites everyone in your party, you got to keep going back to that well. The Associated Press reports: President Bush showered $136 billion in new tax breaks on businesses, farmers and other groups Friday, quietly signing the most sweeping rewrite of corporate tax law in nearly [...]
