Bush’s approval rating has sunk to 19% in the latest ARG poll. That’s lower than Nixon’s the week he resigned. Probably the most telling stat in the breakdown is that Dubya has an 8% approval rating among self-described independents. Basically every Democrat and almost every independent voter in the country hates him. His remaining support […]
Author: Paul Campos
Here, in just 32 words, is a summation of the state of American democracy in our time: “Decisions by the Secretary pursuant to the authority of this Act are non-reviewable and committed to agenc
Trillions of dollars in distressed mortgages and their associated financial products! The Manchester United Association Football team! But wait, there’s more . . . take a look at this handy vege
Shorter Elizabeth Drew: Me and John McCainWe had a thingGoin’ on Drew becomes the latest in the increasingly long line of journalists to walk out on the news media’s longest-running illicit love affair. And given how long the affair lasted, it’s not surprised that amid all the hurt and betrayal a lot of confusion about […]
This story is getting better all the time. It’s pretty clear from the interview that McCain is a very tired old man who was having trouble concentrating, while being interviewed by a native Span
No “law and” nonsense for you. After Scalia left [the University of Chicago Law School] it hired now-Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and started offering classes like Obama
This is pretty extraordinary: McCain did an interview with a Spanish national radio network, in which he either:(1) Refused to meet with Spain’s prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero because he equates Zapatero with “enemies of America” like Hugo Chavez and Raul Castro; and/or(2) Refused to say he’d meet with Zapatero because he didn’t know […]
I confess to being a little obsessed with Todd Collins. Who is Todd Collins you may well ask? At present, he a backup QB for Washington’s NFL team, where he is being paid $3 million per season o
Prominent Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter who recently married a very elderly billionaire, thus becoming an expatriate Baronness, endorses McCain, while decrying Obama’s elitism. OK, to be fair
This may be an extremely naive question — I’m sure it is — but how is it exactly that the U.S. government can essentially nationalize a firm with $100 billion in sales and one trillion dollars in assets in a matter of hours, with no legislative action of any kind other than a phone call […]
24 hours ago one of McCain’s chief economic advisers announced that talk of serious economic trouble was all the fault of Barack Obama frightening everybody for crass political gain. This mornin
Increasingly, that seems to be the choice. The weird insistence on sticking to the obviously false claim about saying “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere is beginning to look l