For Friday, April 05, The American Prospect Online taps the following Web content:
Has He Been Reading William F. Buckley? Now President Bush is finally criticizing Israeli settlements. Bravo.
Straw Man Alert! The Washington Post editorial page, writing of "The Left's Marriage Problem" and mentioning TAP co-editor Robert Kuttner by name, criticizes the "reflexive hostility among some liberals" to the idea that marriage might help some poor mothers. Jeez, didn't we just spend a whole special issue -- with articles titled "Marriage Plus" and "Reconcilable Differences: How feminism and marriage can say 'I do,'" among others -- deliberately advancing a liberal view of marriage that avoids such knee-jerk reactions?
The Poll Stir Continues. Recently, Tapped hinted about and then linked an article in the Washington Monthly by Joshua Green that exposed the Bush administration's hyper-cynical polling operation. Well, now Maureen Dowd has written about it and Joshua Micah Marshall says the Republican National Committee is covering up about the matter.
Hard Realization. We knew this would happen. Republicans out-raised the Democrats in the first quarter in hard money. That's the only kind either party will be raising after the new campaign finance law kicks in.
This is Becoming a Pattern. Senate Dems demand to know who created the Administration's policy on workplace injuries.
Sheer, Unadulterated Hatred. Writing on AmericanProwler.org, former American Spectator managing editor Wlady Pleszczynski describes former (and repentant) American Spectator hack David Brock's "badly stooped shoulders, pasty complexion, and a formless mouth that's been lying too long." Then Pleszczynski suggests, "Once the lying starts, it never stops. Old friends worry about Brock's future. I don't. Yassir Arafat is bound to need a new spokesman." Gee, does anyone get the sense that there might be something personal here?
-- compiled by Prospect staff
