Since becoming majority leader of the Senate, Bill Frist hasn’t exactly positioned himself as the future President he so desperately wants to be. In an era when the Republicans control both the Presidency and both houses of Congress, Frist has managed to trip himself up more than a Chevy Chase-as-Gerald Ford Satuday Night Live marathon. […]
So Karl, if your nominal boss was enjoying 90% approval ratings for months after 9/11, which liberals “wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers?” And now that his approval rating is 9 points lower than it was in the election, what do we do with those people who have […]
After two days, less than a half of 1% of 1115.org readers have voted in our 2008 Democratic Presidential nominee poll. If this is reflective of the participation in the real election, we’re all in trouble.
So vote!
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President George W. Bush1/23/02:
“I have no ambition whatsoever to use this as a political issue.”
Vice President Dick Cheney 5/17/02:
[Questioning the sincerety of the administration is] “thoroughly irresponsible and totally unworthy of national leaders in a time of war.”
Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove 6/22/05:
“Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for […]
It’s been a while since we’ve mentioned Bill O’Reilly here, mostly because it was getting tiresome trying to keep up with all of his idiotic quotes and assorted rantings. Once in a while, however, O’Reilly takes his game to a whole new level — as proven by his recent tirade toward Al Franken and the […]
Certainly, this was the product placement that caused every Frito-Lay shareholder to reach for the Pepto-Bismol:
For a time his favorite snack was Cheetos, and when that ran out, Saddam would “get grumpy,” the story said. One day, guards substituted Doritos corn chips, and Saddam forgot about Cheetos. “He’d eat a family size bag of Doritos […]
Despite the national panic attack after the unfortunate events of 9/11, the topic of border security still gets little more than lip service from our elected officials. Nearly four years later, the inability (or lack of interest) of our government to invest in working technologies and immigration reforms have given rise to groups like the […]
For a man who came to power by capitalizing on a relic of California’s election law, Arnold Schwarzenegger has governed as if the job was his birthright. But a series of inexplicable decisions on both policy and communications have him staring at a serious public opinion deficit. Approval polls 18 months before an […]
I’ve seen some interesting 2008 Presidential polls in the last few days, and with the quacking sound coming from the White House, what better time to take a look at who 1115.org readers prefer. So take a minute to vote for the candidate you would like to see get the Democratic nomination.
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Last year, we took a look a how age and income affected voter participation in the 2000 Presidential election. In yesterday’s post, I didn’t get into the reason that the poor are largely excluded from the political debate, so here are some quick charts that explain it.
(All data from the U.S. Census […]
