Category: US Politics

Deborah was back in action recently and I failed to blog on it. She has a great tirade against the US media for failing to investigate Arnie’s relationship with Enron. I just had a dream about Arnold Schwarzenegger. No, not that kind of dream. I’ve been plagued by headaches so I took a nap after…

George Monbiot argues that appeasing the US armed forces has become a priority for the US president. The relationship between governments and those who seek favours from them has changed. Not long ago, lobbyists would visit politicians and bribe or threaten them until they got what they wanted. Today, ministers lobby the lobbyists. Whenever a…

Tom points to a strongly worded article in the Independent, on electronic voting. Something very odd happened in the mid-term elections in Georgia last November. On the eve of the vote, opinion polls showed Roy Barnes, the incumbent Democratic governor, leading by between nine and 11 points. In a somewhat closer, keenly watched Senate race,…

Maureen Dowd with another, controversial, piece in the Times. Most notably this accusation: Mr. Cheney lumped terrorists and tyrants into one interchangeable mass, saying that Mr. Bush could not tolerate a dictator who had access to weapons of mass destruction, was allied with terrorists and was a threat to his neighbors. Sounds a lot like…

Michael Moore with some pointed questions for Bush, some nonsensical, but some fairly straight forward. Including: What exactly was that look on your face in the Florida classroom on the morning of September 11 when your chief of staff told you, ‘America is under attack’?

I attended the latest Voxpolitcs do at the US embassy in London last night. It was a great debate, and a great subject. I especially liked Phil Noble’s presentation. An evangelical Dean supporter he definately is – fascinating facts and stories, including when Howard Dean told his mother that he was running for presidential candidate…

David Aaronovitch fisks Meacher in today’s Guardian. The Sep 11 theory is ever so slightly off the wall, there are just way too many holes in his argument, and David does a good job of scuppering the whole thing.

Dan wonders where his tax rebate goes… Just after receiving his family’s $400 check, the “tax rebate” that came to taxpayers with children in the latest Bush administration tax windfall for the wealthiest Americans, a reader sent me an e-mail noting the surging price of energy since Bush had taken office.

Picked up this story from Technorati. It seems that religious fundamentalism is alive and well in Alabama. Chief Justice of Alabama Roy Moore is ignoring a Supreme Court ruling that a religious monument inside a judicial building in Montgomery should be removed. The Supreme Court ruled that the monument portraying the 10 Commandments be moved…

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