There are 100,000 troops trained, police, guard, special units, border patrol. There’s going to be 125,000 trained by the end of this year. Yes, we’re getting the job done. It’s hard work. Everybody knows it’s hard work, because there’s a determined enemy that’s trying to defeat us.
— President George Bush, at the first Presidential […]
Feeling compelled to give the White House credit for something this obvious is really the exception that proves the rule. Nonetheless:
The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William Bennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies.
“The president believes the comments were not appropriate,” White House press secretary […]
Not your average Democrat.
One of the defining traits of the modern Republican party is their willingness to break with precedent, tradition, and the normal rules of politics in a heartbeat if it at all increases the odds of victory. And since Democrats have become a party living in the past on the say-so of […]
“Throw your hands in the air and waive ‘em like you just don’t care.”
In minor Section D Page 29 news on Wednesday, it was revealed that House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has been made the target of one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history. Sorry, I had to rip that copy […]
No matter what one thinks of Republican policies or the actions of its party leaders, it’s hard not to admit that they have long played the political game with a skill honed to a fine point. For years, a unified message was presented on issue after issue with little in the way of deviation or […]
Just fucking shoot me:
Fifty years from now, television historians might look back on the early days of “The Blog Report” as a seminal moment in the evolution of the medium—a quaint, remedial and yet visionary development in the relationship between broadcast and broadband news. Mr. Bohrman envisions an expanded role for his Blog Chicks, in […]
Keep it real? No
Keep it rich, that’s the language
[…]
I’m a hustla contemplatin’ dollas and cents
The money machine’s rollin while others are steady foldin’
Niggas talkin about they holdin’, you ain’t holdin’ nuthin
You actin’ like you sittin’ on somethin’, you frontin’
[…]
Some say money’s for spendin’ like wine for drinkin’
Like women to love, but none of the above
Either […]
Not as American as apple pie.
For a long time now, “states rights” has been Republican code for racist ideas that would never fly nationwide, but were still quite popular in places where the 1850s weren’t all that long ago. A smaller, less powerful federal government was needed, they maintain, so that control was more […]
Don’t take political advice from high school students.
In the spring of 2003, as war with Iraq became inevitable and war protests grew in size and fervor, the media looked for any excuse to marginalize and minimize both the participants and the message. Despite hundreds of thousands of protesters in many major American cities […]
