http://www.politicalstrategy.org/ en-us 2005-10-31T18:24:22-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001712.php Misc Tom Ball 2005-10-31T18:24:22-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001711.php The Lewis Libby indictment is an overdue rein on the cowboys of the Bush administration. Finally, some accountability is demanded. Finally, the kneecapping suffered by anyone who publicly questions this White House is being revealed. Finally, a little slice of... Bush Administration P. M. Carpenter 2005-10-31T10:40:02-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001710.php t is axiomatic that everyone looks good when things are going well. Dealing with high times isn’t a traumatic test of character, and therefore doesn’t reveal true character. It’s when things get tough that authentic personalities are exposed – and... Republicans P. M. Carpenter 2005-10-27T10:27:45-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001709.php Self-loathing racist Michelle Malkin cast stones at the Democratic Party from her glass house. Blowhards S.M. Dixon 2005-10-25T00:00:18-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001708.php Miers has a sleazy real estate scandal worse than Bill Clinton's. Supreme Court/Judiciary S.M. Dixon 2005-10-23T12:24:55-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001707.php More White House propaganda and another arrow in the liberal media myth: Identical unsigned editorials are appearing on the op-ed pages of papers nationwide. What is an unsigned editorial? It's the official majority position of a newspaper's editorial board, usually... Propaganda/Spin S.M. Dixon 2005-10-22T00:29:41-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001706.php Today, we're going to play a little game. It's been a really bad week for the Government, and they're scrambling like mad to cover their respective asses while simultaneously rolling out new terror info in an attempt to throw the... Media Drew Johnston 2005-10-12T01:20:01-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001705.php For the Bush administration, Iraq is no longer a democratic test tube, or tabula rasa for geopolitical mapmakers, or even a Rovian opportunity to whip injured nationalism into a vengeful froth. It is way beyond that. Iraq has become, instead,... Iraq P. M. Carpenter 2005-10-03T10:31:12-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001704.php Jeff Jacoby, the Boston Globe’s resident conservative, doesn’t usually get it. Most of his columns - reality-based disconnects of Heritage Foundation fantasies and talking-point drafts for the Limbaugh crowd - leave the thoughtful reader either slackjawed or in stitches. But... Republicans P. M. Carpenter 2005-09-30T10:50:31-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001703.php I once heard the actor James Cagney reminisce with eloquent brevity about his hard-drinking father. By the time of the younger Cagney’s adolescence, pop, he said, had swilled himself into that psychological vortex of “a good man going downhill fast.”... George W. Bush P. M. Carpenter 2005-09-28T10:52:38-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001702.php The most uplifting piece of political commentary I have read in years - and I mean that literally - has come from the pen of none other than right-winger Robert Novak. His column last week filled me with hope. I... Bush Administration P. M. Carpenter 2005-09-26T10:34:02-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001701.php This is going to be a major blogosphere meme before long, I'm sure, so I might as well join in early. A new political test has shown up (check it out here). According to the test, I'm a socialist leaning... Blogging on Blogging Drew Johnston 2005-09-24T01:05:09-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001700.php Bush’s approval rating is finally beginning to slide into Herbert Hoover territory. He has a long history of doing what he shouldn’t have and not doing what he should have; and voters, whose political consciousness always suffers from attention deficit,... Bush Administration P. M. Carpenter 2005-09-23T10:51:23-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001699.php Everyone's favorite paranoid vigilantes return to the southern border. Foreign Policy Drew Johnston 2005-09-22T03:10:01-01:00 http://www.politicalstrategy.org/archives/001698.php In a speech at Brown University, John Kerry said Katrina had "stripped away any image of competence and exposed to all the true heart and nature of this administration. The truth is that for four and a half years, real... Bush Administration P. M. Carpenter 2005-09-21T11:02:49-01:00