…says the AP, citing three anonymous Idaho Republican officials.
What think?

Good Friday noon Fellow Seekers,
See if you can figure out why New Republic Senior Editor John Judis believes experiments conducted by three psychologists like the one described just below provide a key to Pres. Bush’s political success from 2001 to 2005. In one experiment, the psychologists:
“assembled 22 Tucson municipal court judges. They told the judges […]

The Washington Post reports this morning that a GAO report, due out Tuesday, will find that the Iraqi government has failed to meet 15 of the 18 benchmarks that Congress and the Bush Administration had established to measure military and political progress.
It’s hard to escape politics, selective perception and confirmation bias when discussing the question […]

Good Thursday morning.
At earlier stages of his U.S. Senate candidacy, Mike Ciresi had indicated that his pledge to abide by the endorsement process was conditional.
He told me back then that while he planned to abide, and had a strategy to get the endorsement, if the calendar changed and he didn’t have time to execute his strategy, he would revisit […]

The AP is reporting that Peter Agre, the Minnesota native and Nobel Prize in Chemistry who had been publicly mulling a bid for the DFL nomination for U.S. Senate, has decided to quit mulling and not do it.
From the AP story:
“He said he encountered encouragement and skepticism, and he ultimately concluded a campaign would carry […]

I was vacationing last week, when President Bush gave his  Aug. 22 speech to the VFW national convention, which is mostly known for Bush’s surprising decision to invoke the Vietnam analogy in explaining what’s going on in Iraq. Enough has been written about the holes in Bush’s use of that analogy.
In reading the full text of the […]

Good Wednesday morning Fellow Seekers of Wisdom and Truth,
On an August day 149 years ago (the actual anniversary, Aug. 21, slipped by last week while I was away), Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held the first of their famous  series of seven debates.  Although they would both run for president in 1860, it is sometimes forgotten […]

Just below, this post will remind you of one of the most blatant acts of sandbagging a government lawsuit to the benefit of of the an industry (tobacco) that was part of the Republican coalition. The fact that the case isn’t better known testifies to the smog of politicization cases that has blighted the Bush administration’s reputation.
But first, with Democrats enjoying their victory […]

Gov. Mitt Romney Monday announced his presidential campaign’s Minnesota Steering Committee.
The State Co-Chairs are lobbyist/consultant Jack Meeks, who used to be Minnesota committeeman on the Republican National Committee; Brian Sullivan, businessman, former gubernatorial candidate and current Minnesota National Committeeman; Evie Axdahl, the current Minnesota National Committeewoman; and Tony Sutton, a restaurateur and Secretary/Treasurer of the Minn. GOP.

Attorney Gen. Alberto Gonzalez will today announce that he has submitted his resignation, the New York Times reported at about 7 a.m. today.

Good Monday morning Fellow Seekers of Wisdom and Truth,
The New York Times had a good tough piece Saturday about a half-truth that Rudy Giuliani has been perpetrating throughout the presidential campaign so far.  It comes down to this:
Giuliani, who is running hard as a fiscal conservative, consistently claims — most recently in a radio ad now running in Iowa […]

I’m taking the rest of the week off. Please check back Monday and have a great week.
cheers, eb

(Written by Eric Black) 
Peace groups have been targeting Congressman Jim Ramstad for special attention this summer, believing that the famously moderate 9th-term Republican can be brought over from pro-war to anti-war.
Ramstad believes the choices in Iraq are often oversimplified and that there is a middle path. See if he can convince you.
The plan of this […]