Here’s yet another plan to hamper the Senate’s advise and consent role for judicial candidates: limit the time allowed to vet the prospective judges. Senate historian Baker: “”The framers of the Constitution expected the Senate to slow things down, and that has annoyed a lot of presidents over two centuries.” The administration really does seem …
In football they call it the “prevent” defense, often derided as preventing nothing but victory. That’s what I’d call the Democratic election strategy this midterm, and there is at least one reporter at the NYT who agrees with me. Grrr. Of course, it’s a little hard to compete with Air Force One. In other large …
Wow. As Buck and McCarver said yesterday during that incredible win by the Angels, “we thought we’d seen it all last year, but…” Even my less-than-fanatic sports fan mother was caught up in the excitement. Now I really wish I’d had tickets to the game. Here are some links to various hometown newspapers for game …
“…never before has the bottom line swung by $286 billion in a single year.” Yessiree bob, we need more members of the President’s party in Congress, so his agenda can move forward without those pesky obstructionist Democrats. And what an agenda it is: judges, guns, and permanent tax cuts. But that’s all a good thing, …
From the party that has been happy to have Strom Thurmond represent it in the Senate at his advanced age, using Frank Lautenberg’s age as a negative in the NJ Senate race is pretty rich; one more example of expediency triumphing over fact and logic, never political consultants’ strong points anyway (remember Lee Atwater?). Non-prescription …
I wish I had some of these for Game Six at Edison Field in Anaheim. We moved to Westwood (home of UCLA) when I was nine years old. The Dodgers had moved to LA from Brooklyn only two years earlier, and their 1959 team went to the World Series. The sports pages were crazy about …
Well now. Granted that all Presidents spin their statements to put the best light possible on circumstances, Mr. Bush seems to have done more than his share, and about policy, not personal peccadilloes. And have you heard the one about the mis-addressed E-mail? I can’t decide whether these people are stupid, nasty, or both. Then …
Just as Tucson has a graveyard of old airplanes, so the University of North Texas has the CyberCemetery, a repository of defunct Federal agencies’ websites. One of those agencies is the Office of Technology Assessment, which surprises me; I’d have thought there would still be a need for that, but apparently some budget hawks managed …
I just realized I’ve been doing this for a year and a week…started Oct. 15, 2001 at LiveJournal (thanks to Batty for the key over there), moved to Geocities, then to Lee’s first site as a subdomain, and now to this one. Has it really been a year? Huh. Hey! Common sense has emerged in …
DON’T know why I’m surprised at any evidence of this administration’s ability to talk out of both sides of its mouth, but…here we go again. As the story says, “with great fanfare” Bush signed the corporate reform legislation, but his budget request for the SEC doesn’t even come close to what was recommended in that …