President George W. Bush on Iraq (9/19/02):
At the United Nations Security Council, it is very important that the members understand that the credibility of the United Nations is at stake, that the Security Council must be firm in its resolve to deal with a true threat to world peace — and that is Saddam Hussein. […]
WaPo:
In an announcement that fueled partisan sniping on Capitol Hill, Exxon Mobil Corp., the world’s largest oil company, said today its first-quarter profits hit $8.4 billion, up 7 percent from a year ago.
Although the net earnings fell below some analysts’ expectations, they still gave the Texas-based oil giant the fifth-highest quarterly profits ever recorded by […]
Last night, on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart’s guest was Kimberley Strassel, senior editorial page writer for The Wall Street Journal. Stewart tried to get her to explain why oil company profits should go up just because crude oil and gas prices do. It was a simple question, pretty clearly put: if crude […]
My, how things change.
It wasn’t all that long ago—a few months at most—that the Republican leadership in Congress got some old-time religion about ethics and lobbying reform. Duke Cunningham had pled guilty to bribery and tax evasion (among other things), überlobbyist Jack Abramoff was facing his own jail time amid accusations that he had influenced […]
Last year when I chose Wu-Tang Clan’s “C.R.E.A.M.” as my favorite song of all time, I called it:
“The clearest picture of black inner city America ever painted”
One of our long-time readers wrote in to question my ability to judge that:
How would you know? I love statements like that from critics. I was cured of them […]
Put this President’s back to the wall, keep it there long enough, and he will abandon deeply held principles, passionately defended positions.
Bush in September 2000 (in remarks aimed at President Clinton):
The Strategic Reserve is an insurance policy meant for a sudden disruption of our energy supply or for war. Strategic Reserve should not be used […]
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George W. Bush made an appearance in Irvine, CA on Monday to “discuss Comprehensive Immigration Reform”, as per the official White House description of the event. But there was also a whole lot of Iraq going on.
For reasons it has not yet revealed in public, the Washington Post was at pains to airbrush its […]
By now, you’ve probably heard from about a million different sources that the President’s job approval rating has dropped to an abysmal 32% in CNN polling. That, obviously, is not a good place to be. But what’s kind of amusing about this whole thing is the way that the news media is trying to frame […]
One of the nice things about living in the Bay Area is that it’s one of the few places in the country that has supported liberal talk radio at a local level. And, as you can imagine, the interplay between the hosts and the callers can get a little out of control.
Like I often do, […]
Eric Alterman:
OK. One last thing about [Joe] Klein. The politicians he claims to admire in this book are [John] McCain, Rudy [Guiliani], and Chuck Hagel. Last week he wrote a mash note to Newt Gingrich. All are Republicans. And yet in the Media Matters study of the Sunday shows about […]
