Today’s Rated ‘R’ Washington Post Of course, the only reason they had to move to an ‘R’ rating today was because they were quoting the Vice President. Kash

Postcards from Old Europe – Homeland security Investment A piece of legislation called the Homeland Investment Act is currently winding its way through the legislative process. The act is part of a series of measures which were set in motion to end retaliatory, WTO-sanctioned European tariffs on US exports. These tariffs were put in place […]

Iacocca Endorses Kerry Lee Iacocca campaigned for Bush in 2000, but just endorsed Kerry: “I’m here today because our country needs a change in leadership,” Iacocca said during an appearance with Kerry. “We need a leader who is really dedicated to creating millions of high-paying jobs all across the country.” This probably wouldn’t be much […]

More Veep The latest guest-blogger at Talking Points Memo is Ruy Teixeira, who is one of the people I link most frequently. Ruy follows and understands polls as much and as well as anyone out there, so I trust his judgment when he says this: Who would help the ticket the most? Again, I agree […]

Nugent explains Reagan-Bush Economics I love it when rightwingers fight with each other. Tom Nugent reads and then objects to something from the WSJ oped pages: A recent Wall Street Journal editorial excoriated four Republican senators for opposing President Bush’s proposal to cut taxes permanently. While these four Republicans — Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe […]

Springsteen and the RNC Apparently Bruce Springsteen is saying no to those who want him to hold an anti-Bush concert in Giant’s Stadium during the Republican National Convention. But don’t worry. I have a suspicion that there will be plenty of other anti-Bush activities in New York in late August and early September for people […]

Keeping an Eye on Durable Goods Orders Today’s release of the data on durable goods orders for May showed a moderate drop of 1.6%, which is slightly surprising. Most economists had been expecting a solid increase, in keeping with the continued economic recovery. Of course, the absolute level of durable goods orders is still quite […]

Veep Kerry’s impending VP pick seems to be a hot topic of late (e.g., Digby, Atrios, CalPundit, Matt Y.). The opinions range from Gephardt’s ok because the VP choice doesn’t really matter to (exaggerating slightly) please, God, not Gephardt. I’m sympathetic with the former camp, but siding with the latter. Rather than spend time explaining […]

Why Do People Vote for Bush? UnFutz has a good candidate answer. Graph here; post here. AB

Conservative Hypocrites If you often think that Conservatives are hypocrites, blithely spouting whatever they think will make them popular at the moment,(+) without reference to any real core set of beliefs, then you should definitely check out this post by Dan Drezner. Now you might be thinking, “Dan Drezner … Chicago … Illinois … Hypocritical […]