With a year and a half left in his term as governor, it isn’t practical to start a Recall campaign against Arnold Schwarzenegger – and if I recall, the statute prohibits Recalls within 18 months of the officeholder’s next scheduled election. If there were a Recall right now, a new poll [...]

I watched the speech intermittently because I can’t bear to watch President Bush when he’s talking (or walking or sitting or standing still or, in fact, under any circumstances). But I did watch most of it, as much as I could bear. Playing the Bush Speech Drinking Game would have helped but I’d be drunk [...]

Tonight should be interesting. If I were still in college, I’d propose creating a drinking game based on this speech. Drink a beer after every lie. Drink a beer every time Bush says “freedom,” or talks about September 11 as if those attacks had anything to do with Iraq. Drink two beers after every wildly [...]

Three attendees at a Bush Social Security rally in Denver in March – Leslie Weise, a lawyer; Karen Bauer, a temporary office worker; and Alex Young, a computer technician – were were summarily tossed out of the event, ostensibly because one of them had an anti-Bush bumper sticker on her car.
Except for Keith Olbermann’s [...]

CNN: 18%
Fox News: 16%
Local news: 13%
ABC News: 12%
NBC News: 12%
CBS News: 9%
MSNBC: 5%
CNBC: 2%
— Pew Survey via MediaBistro

Reuters:
The percentage of Californians who believe the state is headed in the wrong direction has climbed, propelled by those who disapprove of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s performance in office, according to a Field Poll released on Tuesday.
The leading [cause for pessimism among the 59% who believe the state is on the wrong track] can be summarized [...]

As you’ve no doubt heard by now, the Washington Post covered the Downing Street documents on its front page today. The article reveals a bit more than we had known previously about the motivations of British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the run-up to war.
It was clear from the getgo that Bush was risking [...]

President Bush will plead for support in a speech tonight that will be televised live from Fort Bragg, NC. There’s no doubt Bush has support on the military base, but among the Tarheel state’s permanent 8 million or so residents, not so much:
[A] statewide survey, conducted over the weekend for The News & Observer and [...]

Found this at Oil Empire

“[Fox news anchor] Bill O’Reilly took [leading Democrat senator] Joe Biden’s appearance on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos and deliberately misrepresented what Biden said. Biden was calling for an independent commission to look at Guantanamo and other US detention camps. When pressed by Stephanopoulos, Biden said that although he personally thought the US should [...]