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 […]
When I hear news about the Democrat presidential frontrunner, I often think: "The gall of that man." Howard Dean's latest comment is Exhibit A for arrogance, hypocrisy and gall. Howard Dean criticized President Bush on Friday for saying Christianity had influenced his opposition to stem-cell research. "I think we ought to make scientific decisions, not […]
Democrat President hopeful Howard Dean says that he signed a civil unions law for gays because God told him to. Dean, who's really studied the Bible, told The Washington Post that: "The overwhelming evidence is that there is very significant, substantial genetic component to it," Dean said in an interview Wednesday. "From a religious point […]
Well, if you're a Democrat, probably not. Democrat President hopeful Wesley Clark told the Manchester, N.H., Union-Leader that anyone who holds pro-life views need not apply for appointment to the federal bench -- but that's not a litmus test. Clark was asked if would appoint or reject a prospective judicial nominee who passed all of […]
Anytime any Republican questions the wisdom of a Democrat's foreign policy pronouncements, such criticism is in turn attacked as questioning the Democrat's patriotism. Unfortunately for the Democrats, Republicans "question" their patriotism much less than Democrats attack Republicans' patriotism. For example: Sen. Ted Kennedy said that the Iraq War was "cooked-up" in Texas to help President […]
The New Republic has an excellent article outlining what may be one of Democrat presidential wannabe Howard Dean's fatal flaws. As conversion stories go, Dean's hardly conforms to the conventions of the genre. Rather than show how religion helped him to change his life--see, again, Bush overcoming the bottle--it shows how a conflict in everyday […]
Still watching the stupid debate, but the most priceless moment of the night's debate just occurred. The speaker, Howard Dean: I am going to balance the budget and I'm going to do it in the sixth or seventh year of my administration. We're also going....What? And where the ellipsis occurs in that quote there was […]
I'm watching a replay of today's Democrat presidential candidate debate -- and it isn't pretty. It's become obvious to me why these forums are increasingly useless; if you're looking for truth, you won't find it in the debates. Some of these loons are making statements which are demonstrably false and no one -- not the […]