Dick Should’ve Enlisted Dick Should’ve Enlisted
The best zinger of the week on Dick Cheney's now infamous hunting accident came not from Jon Stewart or any of the late night comics but courtesy of Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel: If ...
Feb 17, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Failing Upwards Failing Upwards
One of the perplexing things about the Democratic Party is how it rewards and glorifies consultants and experts who get major issues so wrong. Back in 2002, former CIA analyst Kenn...
Feb 16, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Impeachment Is Coming? Impeachment Is Coming?
Has Paul Weyrich, a founding father of the modern conservative movement, been reading The Nation? Via TAPPED, I see that Weyrich is ringing alarm bells over the possibility of Dem...
Feb 15, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Remind You of Something? Remind You of Something?
Few events are as tailor made for Comedy Central's The Daily Show as Dick Cheney's accidental shooting of 78-year-old Harry Whittington, a moment that had Jon Stewart exclaiming &q...
Feb 14, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
A Fitting Heir to Bush A Fitting Heir to Bush
George Allen, the not-so-bright, tobacco-dipping, football-quoting Senator from Virginia, is quickly emerging as the right wing's potential answer to John McCain come 2008. Allen s...
Feb 13, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Coulter Gone Wild Coulter Gone Wild
To truly understand conservatives, you need to experience them in their element. The largest such gathering of true believers is the annual Conservative Political Action Conference...
Feb 12, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Rove Comes Calling Rove Comes Calling
Is the White House coming begging to Senate Minority Leader HarryReid? "Karl Rove's back and there's no doubt about that," Reid remarkedat a one-hour on-the-recor...
Feb 10, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Beyond Chanukah Beyond Chanukah
So George doesn't know Jack? How then to explain the emails between Abramoff and Washingtonian editor Kim Eisler, published today by Think Progress? First, Abramoff explains his d...
Feb 8, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
Fightin’ Dems Fightin’ Dems
Those critics who systematically caricature the Democratic Party as "soft on defense" should've headed down to the National Mall in Washington on this brisk Wednesday mor...
Feb 8, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman
McCain vs. Obama McCain vs. Obama
In case you weren't paying attention, since yesterday there's been a very public war of words between the Senate's two most hyped members, Barack Obama and John McCain, over lobbyi...
Feb 7, 2006 / The Notion / Ari Berman