Just when you thought Slate‘s book, George W. Bushisms, couldn’t possibly sell any more copies, the President has done it again. According to the Washington Post, a vacationing Bush was surprised on Tuesday when asked by reporters about the plans of Panos Zavos, a Kentucky scientist, and Severino Antinori, an Italian fertility doctor, to clone […]
Chris Mooney
Chris Mooney is a Prospect senior correspondent and, most recently, author of Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatened Our Future (with Sheril Kirshenbaum).
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The Secret War on Tom Daschle
The producers who brought you The producers who brought you Doggygate and the brouhaha over Al Gore’s alleged claim that he invented the Internet are at work on a brand new project: the destruction of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle. Comments from a recent discussion thread on the right wing website FreeRepublic.com demonstrate the […]
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A Few Good Conservatives
Over the pre-Thanksgiving weekend, as their alma maters clashed waspily in the Harvard-Yale game (Yale won) and as the candidates themselves went for highly publicized jogs (Governor Bush is faster), Al Gore and George W. Bush spinners continued their grating arguments for and against manual ballot recounts in Florida. In this battle of repetitiousness, […]
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Conservatives v. Cheney
After prolonged coyness, George W. Bush has finally announced that he has tapped Richard B. Cheney, former George Bush defense secretary, to be on the Republican ticket. Bush had said he wanted a “forward-looking administration,” but then picked one of Daddy’s dinosaurs. Bush had once promised that his veep choice would be an “electrifying” one […]
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A Vast *!?@ Conspiracy
For chronic Clinton-haters, it was a glorious weekend. The object of their joy? A book by For chronic Clinton-haters, it was a glorious weekend. The object of their joy? A book by National Enquirer writer Jerry Oppenheimer, published by conservative sugar-daddy Rupert Murdoch’s HarperCollins press, containing allegations that 26 years ago Hillary Clinton called […]
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Jingle Bell Schlock:
Politically, Christmas this year began on the evening of December 13th. Many of us witnessed the seasons’ greetings on CNN. At 10:00 p.m. Eastern, George W. Bush was scheduled to deliver his presidential acceptance speech from the Texas House of Representatives, the site of his occasional bonding with a Texas Democrat. An hour before, […]
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The Ashcroft Debate:
Watching Ted Kennedy and Pat Leahy tear out John Ashcroft’s entrails during his confirmation hearings this week — he’ll survive, damaged — conservatives are getting desperate. And you can see it in their prose. Covering the second day of the Ashcroft hearings for the National Review Online — in a piece entitled “Playing the Race […]
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The Bush Detector:
During the past month of the presidential race, “objectivity” in the mainstream media has become virtually indistinguishable from lowering the bar for George W. Bush — despite the governor’s repeated During the past month of the presidential race, “objectivity” in the mainstream media has become virtually indistinguishable from lowering the bar for George W. Bush […]
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G.W.’s Litterbox Strategy
“George and Laura Bush also own two cats, Willie, who is coal black, and six-toed Ernie, an orange-and-white feline. Ernie is named for Ernest Hemingway, who also owned a six-toed cat.” — Austin American Statesman, September 2, 2000 E arlier this month, the Bush campaign revealed its latest slogan: “Real Plans for Real People.” […]
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The Cajun Rage:
When Pat Brister, state chairwoman of the Louisiana Republican Party, wanted to do her part to seal the 2000 election for George W. Bush, she didn’t need Tom DeLay to provide an e-ticket to Florida. Instead, she just strolled out into her political backyard. Last month, Brister assembled a mid-sized Republican mob outside the […]
