So says noted maverick John McCain. In fact, this was McCain’s contribution to the floor debate over the clearly qualified federal judge nominee Adalberto Jose Jordan. Dana Milbank uses the Republicans’ delaying the confirmation of the Cuban-American Jordan as a way to explore how the Republicans are alienating almost the entirety of the Latino population, […]
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I can’t say this is surprising; filibustering the repeal of DADT would be entirely consistent with the history of this indefensible device. Meanwhile, speaking of media incompetence about McCain
Ah, democracy. McCain is so screwed that people who actually believe the lies in his most vile attack ads still won’t vote for him: I just got an astounding email from a Republican consultant I
I was actually watching this on The Uptake when it happened: Later in the event, a man in the audience stood up and told McCain he’s “scared” of an Obama presidency and who he’d select for the Supreme Court. “I have to tell you. Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t […]
Hilzoy, after spending far too much time reading The Corner: [The revisitation of the Ayers non-story] is delusional. It would be interesting to ask, for instance, why so few of Obama’s law stud
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who has been mentioned as a short-list candidate for McCain’s veep slot, reacted swiftly to the Supreme Court’s decision in Kennedy yesterday…by sign
Yglesias on Abe Foxman giving a pass to the anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic, anti-gay, all-purpose nut whose endorsement John McCain assiduously sought out: “What does Foxman have to say about all this Hageean nuttiness? He thinks it’s just fine since Hagee’s pro-Israel. Obviously, we’re not supposed to give too much scrutiny to the content of Hagee’s “pro-Israel” […]