John Bolton is having a public feud with Great Britain over his effort to withhold the UN’s budget until various reforms are adopted. This was a classic Jesse Helms tactic of the past and shows that Bolton is tipping towards bludgeoning the United Nations rather than using diplomatic skill to achieve his objectives.
The Los Angeles Times editorial page is sizzling with anger today about the Bush administration’s missteps in Iraq.
. . .but two quick items. First, I posted this short piece on Joe Biden’s Washington Post oped this morning over at TPM Cafe. Also, I don’t know what to think of this, but check out the Durex global sex issues survey.
Fascinating. A British Parliament Member has offered to do jail time to get the controversial Bush/Al-Jazeera memo into public view. Someone please slip him a copy.
Yesterday in a Wall Street Journal article, “Plan for Iraq: Shareholders Don’t Shoot Each Other,” Charles Wolf, Jr.
This is an interesting geographic depiction of George W. Bush’s favorability levels. It’s not all that surprising that Bush’s popularity is worst in “blue states” and markedly better in the south and midwest. However, if the election in November 2004 had been held tomorrow, George W. Bush could not win with a map like this….
This is rather big news in Japan. A senior government panel in Japan has decided that women should be allowed to ascend to Japan’s imperial throne.
The White House has stated that claims that George Bush suggested bombing Al-Jazeera’s Qatar-based headquarters are “outlandish.
I just wrote this piece for TPM Cafe and invite any debate about what I’m suggesting. I have recently received some friendly criticism for focusing on things that are “too inside DC.” I think my writing and commentary are pretty diverse — but I’ll think about broadening the subject matter in coming months.
