Elections Blog

An anonymous attack by a Clinton advisor on John McCain in the New York Times today has triggered what may be the sharpest exchange so far between the 2008 frontrunners.
This line, from Maureen Dowd’s column today , drew an outraged response from McCain’s side:
Privately, Hillary’s camp was not overly upset by the McCain swipe because …

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Don’t get your hopes up Ted! I thought of you when I saw it!
Billionaire liberal financier George Soros, who spent millions of his fortune trying to oust President Bush in 2004, yesterday said he hopes to stay out of politics from now on.
“In the future, I’d very much like to get disengaged from …

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It’s a straw poll in Iowa, and it really doesn’t look pretty for the left
(Giuliani beats Clinton 56-37; Edwards, 51-43; and Kerry, 53-40. McCain defeats Clinton 54-37; Edwards, 47-46; and Kerry, 53-39.)
The poll also ought to chill the Sunday muffins at Terrace Hill this morning: There are 57 percent of likely Iowa voters who think …

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But it will be appealed. It should be appealed. The basis for the law was to curtail fraud. “They cited an Atlanta Journal-Constitution article that said 5,000 dead people were listed as having voted in the eight elections preceding 2000.” The article goes onto explain that the fraud was alledgedly …

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Tom Blumer has a great review of how the Welfare Reform Act may be exceeding the expectations from when it was signed into law.
From a peak of over 14 million in 1994, and over 12 million at the end of 1996 (over 4.5 million families) when the new law took effect, the number of those …

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Wal-Mart has become the passion of the left. Destroy them and anyone like them! But why? You could argue that they are pandering to the unions, but after seeing the unions agree to Fords buyout, that seems kinda silly. You coould argue that they don’t like big box stores destroying neighborhoods, but …

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Byron York has a wonderful piece on the political division in politics today.
Ask yourself this question: What actions, or series of actions, could President Bush and GOP leaders in Congress have taken in the war on terror that would cause Democratic leaders to say, seven weeks before mid-term elections, “We are all united in a …

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Harvard University invited Khatami, the former President of Iran to speak on the subject of “Ethics of Tolerance in the Age of Violence.” What did Khatami bring up?
Khatami, widely considered a reformer in Iran, was often met with applause from the Kennedy School audience…
In response to another question, Khatami also justified his country’s …

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Here is some background presented by Bryan on the Hamdan decision:
It stripped part of President Bush’s wartime powers to deal with captured enemy combatants and put much of that power in Congress’ hands. He can’t try them via military tribunals, as captured enemy operatives were tried in World War II and previous conflicts. One could …

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Tell me what your reaction was!
Hot Air has a comparison of edited vs. unedited tape from the film! And this comment
Here’s a quote to get the ball rolling: “Berger, Freeh later thought, was not a national-security adviser; he was a public-relations hack, interested in how something would play in the press.”
Michelle Malkin:
Betsy …

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Unable to compete in the world of free debate with transparent facts, liberals behaved like children this week - proving that in the end national security and even national identity are always subservient to their own ego, reputation, and appearance.
It was pathetic, cowardly, and sickening.
It is also far too typical.
Liberals, who in …

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Was his decision to pardon President Nixon a good one? I am starting to think so. Although he had no way of knowing, look at what has happened since President Clinton was impeached. The gotcha game is at an all time high, with the Democrats at an all time low! You …

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From DEMOCRATS.SENATE.GOV
SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP URGES DISNEY CEO TO CANCEL MISLEADING 9/11 MINISERIES
Washington, DC — Urging him to cancel the grossly inaccurate upcoming miniseries The Path to 9/11, the Senate Democratic Leadership today sent the following letter to Disney President and CEO Robert Iger. Disney’s subsidiary ABC erroneously claims the misleading miniseries is based on 9/11 …

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Rush Limbaugh appeared in the Free Speech segment of The CBS Evening News. Here is a link to the video via Hot Air or via CBS And the transcript via CBS
(CBS) It is time to face a hard cold fact: Militant Islam wants to kill us just because we are alive and don’t …

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As seen at NewsBusters, Noel Sheppard shares an e-mail he recieved from “Michael Scheuer, a 22-year veteran of the CIA that used to head up “Alec Station,” the Counterterrorist Center’s Osama bin Laden unit. (Update: Scheuer is the individual regularly referred to in the 9/11 Commission report as “Mike”.) ”
Sheppard asked “Is the scene …

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“Estevez’ all-star “Bobby” cast glorifies RFK“, screams the headline! And this is by far, the most interesting review I have read in some time: “A well-crafted piece with a large ensemble cast featuring some big names, the film’s success will depend on whether audiences respond to its rose-tinted view of Los Angeles in the late …

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Drudge has this up
WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF SLAMS DEM LEADER
Dear Senator Reid:
Thank you for your September 4 letter to the President. I am responding on his behalf.
A useful discussion of what we need to do in Iraq requires an accurate and fair-minded description of our current policy: As the President has explained, …

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I believe it is. Our 2 party system is restrictive to the voter. As it stands, we are given the parties choice for a candidate and not the peoples choice. By the time the peoples choice, or primary election, rolls around, we are given the option of chosing the candidate that received the …

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Newsweek presentedThe Man Who Said Too Much, a summary of the book; “Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War,” which was co-authored by Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff.
In the early morning of Oct. 1, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell received an urgent phone call from his No. 2 [...]

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This may be the one issue that has united the left and right in the blogoshpere!
Porkbusters.org posted:
Senators Tom Coburn and Barak Obama have proposed S.2590, legislation that would create a single website with access to information on nearly all recipients of federal funding. The bill cannot proceed, however, because one or more Senators [...]

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