The New York Times most irrelevant columnist, Paul Krugman, takes on new electronic voting machines in his latest column. No big deal. Nothing egregiously partisan in the article, except for the first paragraph. [T]he disputed election of 2000 left a lasting scar on the nation's psyche. A recent Zogby poll found that even in red […]
Earlier this month, when Carol Moseley Braun announced she was ending her presidential campaign, I suggested that she was throwing her two supporters to Howard Dean in the hopes of getting a job in a Dean administration. Well, I was right and I was wrong. Braun wanted a job, but she's not waiting until Dean […]
The results are in and the Democrat Party in Iowa appears to have taken their meds and rejected "Angry" Howard Dean. According to CNN, Sen. John Kerry came out on top with 38 percent of the vote, followed by Sen. John Edwards with 32 percent, Gov. Howard Dean with just 18 percent and Rep. Dick […]
This is why lobbyists get honor guards at their funerals. At a town-hall meeting in Hudson, N.H., Wednesday, (Wesley) Clark defended serving on corporate boards after retiring from the military in 2000 and registering as a lobbyist. "We were trying to make America safe. That's what lobbyists mostly do,'' Clark said. Imagine if a Republican, […]
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has identified fellow sufferers of BDS in today's screed masquerading as a political column. Krugman outs presidential candidate Wesley Clark in The New York Times as an acute BDS sufferer. [E]arlier this week, Wesley Clark had some strong words about the state of the nation. "I think we're at […]
Carol Moseley Braun is getting more air time for endorsing Howard Dean than she ever got when she was running herself.
Carol Moseley Braun has decided to drop out of the race for the Democrat presidential nomination and endorse Howard Dean. My first thought: She wants a job -- probably another cushy ambassadorship. So, the big question is what does Dean gain from Moseley Braun's endorsement? After all, the latest polls show she has a following […]
Former Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich was making the rounds of the various talk shows last night commenting on former Bush Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's recent revelations. (For the record: On O'Neill, I'm skeptical of much of what he apparently claims in the book by Ron Suskind. For a roundup on various inconsistencies between some […]
Yesterday a Republican managed to trigger the infamous Howard Dean temper. Ungerer, wearing a T-shirt bearing the words "Mr Fix It," rose to his feet and condemned what he called the incivility of the campaign and the political press. He suggested Dean and the other Democratic candidates stop "tearing down your neighbor" and cut their […]