Bush Campaign Spending Wow. They really have been spending their money like crazy. From today’s The Note: ABC News’ Karen Travers reports that according to the Bush-Cheney ’04’s April FEC report, the campaign has officially hit the $200 million mark for total fundraising. As of April 30, BC04 had $71.6 million in cash on hand, […]
Economist Running the Show This week saw a triumph for a practitioner of the dismal science in the world’s second largest country. Singh is actually a very credible and well-respected economist; but running a government is something else entirely. I wish him luck. Kash
The Government as Bush Campaign Tool We all know that Bush has taken this art form to new levels in the past year. Yesterday the GAO took the first concrete steps to try to curb this practice, finding that the White House’s Medicare propaganda videos are illegal. Of course, whether this finding will make any […]
Fiscal Discipline … … or rather the lack thereof: House and Senate Republican negotiators have produced a [pay as you go] measure that is essentially make-believe. It purports to require that tax cuts or spending increases be paid for with offsetting tax increases or spending cuts. It pretends to impose that rule for the next […]
Crediting Wonkette As I MUST. She’s got the right take on Wolfowitz’s testimony yesterday: Paul Wolfowitz fesses up on why Iraq isn’t going so well: “We had a plan that assumed we’d have basically more stable security conditions than we’ve encountered.” Among those assumptions: That Iraq was a magical country, where lollipops grew on trees […]
Almost Missed This One Via TBogg, this story from the Washington Post: The House would not only make permanent the $1,000-per-child tax credit enacted as part of the 2001 tax cut but would dramatically increase the income limits for eligibility. Currently, married families with incomes of up to $110,000 receive the full credit; the bill […]
RSS, Revisited (yet again) It was down for a few days, either due to my messing with the template or Google’s makeover of Blogger. I think it’s fixed now, but if not, let me know in email or comments. I’ve also changed the settings so that permalinks point to individual posts, rather than entire pages. […]
Take two Viagras and call me in the morning Childless couple told to try sex: The University Clinic of Lubek said they had never heard of a case like it after examining the couple who went to see them last month for fertility tests. Doctors subjected them to a series of examinations and found they […]
Texas A few months ago, I wrote this: At some point, can we just move Austin and its residents to some other state, give Texas over to the fundamentalists and evangelicals, and then let Texas secede? Maybe we could bring Houston along too, but not Dallas. Patrick Hayden has now seconded the motion in a […]
Abu Ghraib Summary Kevin’s got a good, but depressing, overview of what we know to date about the events in Abu Ghraib. AB