College Republican National Convention

POSTED BY , 19 July 2007 | PERMALINK

HuffPo's Max Blumenthal is lighting up the Internet with this excellent vid. of his visit to the national College Republican National Convention. Genius. 

Election Spending and Trips to Wal-Mart

POSTED BY , 18 July 2007 | PERMALINK

The receipts are in and the '08 candidates will keep 'em coming.  Spending early and often, the would-be presidents are captivating political financiers District-wide and beyond.  The Hill reports Obama and Clinton are ignoring South Carolina; Bloomberg says the Republicans can flaunt themselves as fiscally conservative all they want, but the Democrats have better spending reports.

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"We have suffered because of global games..."

POSTED BY , 18 July 2007 | PERMALINK

Veracifier is very proud of today's episode of TPM. True, we have brought you big names before, like Josh's interview with Senator Kerry, but the clarity of today's interview with the Afghani Ambassador to the United States exemplify the kind of behind the headlines reporting we are trying to achieve. Way to go Josh. Highlights include

Discussion of a 'green zone' for the Taliban existing in...

Senate Vote Falls Short

POSTED BY , 18 July 2007 | PERMALINK

The Senate went "to the mattresses" and came away with little more than sleepover exhuastion.

After being up all night debating the war in Iraq, the Senate has just voted: 52-47.
  ... Eight votes short of the sixty  needed to cut off discussion and bring the Iraq debate to a close with a bill for withdrawl.  The Democrats just don't have the votes, but they're close.  But ...

Vitter shows up

POSTED BY , 17 July 2007 | PERMALINK

MIA Senator and Veracifier favorite Dave Vitter showed up at a press conference last night, ready to go back to work in Washington. One question is, if his wife has known about his involvement with a prostitute for all these years, why has he been missing for a week? Vitter railed against those who had invaded his privacy- but check out this excellent editorial by Vitter's home town paper the...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...

POSTED BY , 16 July 2007 | PERMALINK

Has anyone noticed how the new Bourne Identity posters seemed suspiciously lifted from Veracifier's own...? Maybe Universal owes us a donation... --Marc

Obama Girl v. Giuliani Girl

POSTED BY , 16 July 2007 | PERMALINK

Just when we thought we'd seen everything election campaigning had to offer - remember that Hillary video - our friends at Barely Political have brought us the new look of elections, because politics and comedy are basically one and the same.

Take note: the '08 campaign trend is here. Dance dance revolution in the District.

Maybe we should skip the next debates in...

The Popularity of Executive Privilege

POSTED BY , 16 July 2007 | PERMALINK

Last week, one of the top articles on Digg was a Washington Post article on executive privilege.  At first glance, it looked as though jutsice was finally being served: no more wild claims of executive privilege.

"No one, absolutely no one, is above the law," hyped the lead investigator when the president invoked executive privilege to protect conversations with his aides.

For...

No End in Sight

POSTED BY , 13 July 2007 | PERMALINK

Check out the trailer for the German documentary "No End in Sight", it won best Doc at Sundance and is out in two weeks.

Thompson Doesn't "Remember" Abortion Lobbying

POSTED BY , 13 July 2007 | PERMALINK

Fred Thompson does not remember if he did or didn't once lobby for an abortion rights group.  While we recognize that he may have been too busy plotting witty comebacks for Michael Moore to actually remember what he's done, for a Republican to not be entirely clear on his abortion history has all of us at Veracifier scratching our heads.  Apparently, the real confusion is in the definition of...