McCain flip-flops on ethics reform, comes out in favor of ‘astroturf’ organizing.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) grills AG Alberto Gonzales on the administration’s purge of U.S. Attorneys.
Someone needs to get Jay Carney to give Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) a chill-pill, I think. As we just updated you below, Sen. Feinstein pressed Attorney General Gonzales on those firings of US Attorneys. And he basically just stonewalled her. Click here to see the exchange. He won’t say how many they’ve pushed out. His dodge was that the question of how many USAs they’ve canned is a ‘personnel matter’.
When do people wake up to the fact that John McCain is going nowhere in the 2008 presidential race? A new ARG poll shows that over the past year, McCain’s support among New Hampshire independents has dropped from 49% to 29%. And ARG President Dick Bennett says those numbers are in line with what he’s seeing in other states too.
One suspects (and this may be borne out in more detailed poll data) that the two big reasons for the collapse in independent support for McCain are his status as an Iraq war dead-ender and the fact that he’s spent the last three years making nice with right-wingers and right-wing policy initiaitives that independents don’t like. Remember too that, despite all the kowtowing, there are big leaders on the religious right who say they’ll never support his candidacy for president.
I know a lot of people are saying McCain’s a hypocrite and a flipflopper. And, sure, I agree, that’s a big reason why his popularity has diminished so dramatically. But isn’t it time people start asking whether he’d be a strong presidential candidate or whether he can even win the nomination? His claim to fame, what supposedly makes him such a strong contender is his support among independent voters. But they don’t like him anymore.
Surveillance court judge: sure, you can see the order for the president’s wiretapping program… but it’s up to the administration.
Having trouble keeping track of all the bills being proposed about Bush’s escalation plan?
Here’s a handy guide to all of them. We’ll keep updating it as new bills come in — and yes, there will be new bills in the days ahead.
Meanwhile, were you aware that all these anti-surge bills are actually good for Bush?
Sure, he took bribes. But he also took on the Man.
Bob Ney, a victim of the “the powers that be.”
Over at TPMCafe we’ve been discussing progressive politics online. And apropos of that conversation, the Pew Internet & American Life Project has another report out on Americans’ use of the internet. Micah Sifry’s got an analysis of it up here with some intriguing findings on how Americans are using the internet for finding political news and engaging in political activism.
New troops start shipping out from Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune.