Ace and I haven’t seen eye to eye on this Schiavo issue, and he, I am sure, thinks I am overwrought and hysterical about the influence of the religious right. Let me, however, take a brief pause from the acrimony of the last few weeks for a moment of collegial comity, and note that this …
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A Contrast
I was watching the Apprentice, which, btw, is not very compelling this season, and during a commercial break I flipped to cable news to see what was going on in the world of talking heads. On CNN, a respectable conversation with Bill Nelson and Jesse Jackson, who was alarmingly discrete, thoughtful and informative. On Hannity …
Things We Don’t Know
The stupid continues, even after Terri Schiavo’s death. Just heard Sean Hannity say the following: “I never attacked Michael Schiavo. I don’t know if Michael Schiavo caused her condition, but I have questions that need to be answered.” In that spirit, I offer the following: I don’t know if Sean Hannity abuses his wife, but …
And The Assault on the Judiciary Continues
Tom DeLay, today: Judicial activists killed Terri Schiavo, and they will pay. That’s the message House Majority Leader Tom DeLay delivered a few minutes ago in his statement on the death of Terri Schiavo. DeLay said that Schiavo died because the legal system did not protect her, then he declared that “the time will come …
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Shorter Hugh Hewitt
As a service, I read Hugh Hewitt’s rant (‘Hating the Religious Right’) in the Weekly Standard denouncing John Danforth’s principled stand against the shift the Republican party has recently undertaken. It all boils down to these final sentences: These and other developments have indeed mobilized new activists across the country, many of who see a …
Gambling
West Virginia is get ready to vote on whether or not to allow table gaming, so this piece in the NY Times is timely: Gambling revenues, once a mere trickle, have become a critical stream of income in a number of states, in some cases surpassing traditional sources like the corporate income tax and helping …
DeLay Must Go
I don’t think I am being a ‘weak-kneed’ Republican, nor am I simply bending to the demands of my ‘liberal masters’ when I state that it is simply time for Tom DeLay to go. In the past, I have defended him, because I, too, instinctively suspect partisan politics in any ethics violation charge, particularly when …