Hurricane Gustav and the Republican Convention
Hurricane Gustav is barreling down on the Gulf Coast and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who has dubbed this "the mother of all storms," has once again ordered the evacuation of New Orleans. Aside from the obvious humanitarian and logistical issues, this is also a huge wild card going into the GOP convention. President Bush is unlikely to make it to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on August 31, 2008 10:15
McCain Rejects and Denounces Hagee
John McCain has repudiated, rejected, denounced, distanced, and otherwise made it clear that he's not a big fan of John Hagee, who he thinks is a nut. In the face of mounting controversy over headline-grabbing statements from Pastor John Hagee, CNN has learned presumptive Republican nominee John McCain has decided to reject his endorsement. The Huffington Post had published a ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on May 22, 2008 19:03
McCain Scoffs at Hagee Statements
John McCain has a nice, pithy response to his endorser Rev. John Hagee's claim that the "sins" of New Orleans and the city's acceptance of homosexuality were the reasons why God punished the City by sending Hurricane Katrina:"It's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense. I dont have anything additional to say. It's nonsense, it's nonsense, it's nonsense, ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on April 25, 2008 13:43
John McCain ‘Honored’ To Receive Endorsement From Bigot
Yesterday, John McCain announced that he was "honored" to receive the endorsement of Pastor John Hagee, a Texas-based preacher who can probably be most charitably described as "pro-Apocalypse". McCain lavished praise on him for being "pro-Israel", but as Sarah Posner (via Matthew Yglesias) points out, what he actually stands for is the destruction of Israel in order to facilitate ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on February 29, 2008 12:14
New Orleans to Demolish 1940s-Era Projects
The New Orleans city council today defied protestors and voted unanimously to tear down the first of four remaining major housing projects in the city to make way for mixed-income housing that will accommodate some, but not all, of the pre-Katrina public housing population. Needless to say, the self-appointed community activists were displeased: The scene outside New Orleans' City Hall ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on December 20, 2007 18:22
McCain Wins Iowa and New Hampshire Endorsements
John McCain has received all the key newspaper endorsements for the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary, despite being a non-factor in the polls in the former and trailing in the latter. The Des Moines Register backed McCain despite his being in 5th place in their own polls; apparently, they're not so much trying to influence the outcome as to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on December 16, 2007 09:37
Trent Lott and the Politics of Cashing In
Bob Novak excoriates Trent Lott for resigning from the Senate in order to cash in as a lobbyist. Members of Congress talk among themselves about "getting out to make some money," and they do not mean pocket change. The swollen federal government and concomitant growth of massive lobbying firms means ex-lawmakers such as Lott and Pickering will quickly ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 29, 2007 13:18
Trent Lott Resigning
Trent Lott is resigning mid-term, reportedly in order to get out ahead of more restrictive ethics laws. MSNBC: NBC News has learned that Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., the minority whip is in the midst of informing close allies that he plans to resign his senate seat before the end of the year. It's possible a formal announcement of his plans could ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 26, 2007 10:07
New Orleans Council Now Majority White
The political fallout of Hurricane Katrina has culminated in the first majority-white city council in New Orleans in 22 years. A former councilwoman won an at-large seat on the New Orleans City Council, creating the first white majority in more than two decades. Jacquelyn Brechtel Clarkson defeated Cynthia Willard-Lewis, who is black, with 53% of the vote. ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on November 19, 2007 13:57
FEMA Fake News Conference
The idiots at FEMA stagged a fake news conference to highlight their efforts in California wildfire relief. The White House scolded the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Friday for staging a phony news conference about assistance to victims of wildfires in southern California. The agency — much maligned for its sluggish response to Hurricane Katrina over two years ago — arranged to ...Posted in Outside The Beltway | OTB on October 27, 2007 08:07
