Amy Sullivan

ONCE MORE, WITH FEELING….What is going on in Washington State, anyway? In 2000, the Maria Cantwell/Slade Gorton Senate race led to multiple recounts before Cantwell was declared the winner one month after the election. And now in this year’s gubernatorial race, a machine recount has left Democrat Christine Gregoire a mere 42 votes behind Republican […]

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX….I suppose it couldn’t hurt. The following just came across the fax machine in our office: “The Amazing Kreskin Offers His Talents To Help His Homestate of New Jersey During Transition: Mentalist offers to use abilities to safeguard against corruption.” Apparently, there’s been a slump in demand for world famous mentalists lately. […]

BUT STEREOTYPES ARE SO FUN….Consumed with writing our next cover story (on a not-even-remotely-related-to-religion topic) these past few weeks, I decided that instead of weighing in on the whole “Are all liberals godless heathens and all conservatives intolerant Bible-thumpers” debate, I’d let it play out for a little while and then assemble my thoughts at […]

BE AFRAID! BE VERY…OH, NEVER MIND….What a surprise. One week after the election, having successfully freaked the bejeebus out of folks in the Red States who don’t actually face any real threat of terrorism, the Bush administration has lowered the threat level from orange to yellow. Yes, that’s right. Nothing to worry about anymore, nothing […]

COULD DELAY BE THE NEXT DASCHLE?….Although Tom DeLay’s Texas redistricting plan succeeded in knocking off some veteran Democratic congressmen, he should be more than a little worried about the safety of his own seat in the next election. Democrats have already fixed on the fact that DeLay won reelection with a mere 55 percent of […]

SLOW DOWN THERE….This, with apologies to Andrew, is hooey. “What we’re seeing,” writes Andrew Sullivan, “is a huge fundamentalist Christian revival in this country, a religious movement that is now explicitly political as well.” Hate to point this out (no, actually, I don’t–I’ve been saying this for a while now), but the “huge fundamentalist Christian […]

DEMS NEED A BLUE-STATE LEADER….I have to admit to being slightly stunned this morning. So my comments are more stream-of-consciousness than well-thought-out analysis and I will do my best to keep them far from the inevitable Democratic piling-on that I so despise. I think Democrats need to say out loud now what many have been […]

GOD BLESS PETER JENNINGS….If you’re still watching television, switch over to ABC News. Peter Jennings is stubbornly (and, I believe–taking a look at the margin and the ballots still outstanding–correctly) holding off calling Ohio for either candidate. When Kerry campaign correspondent Dean Reynolds went off the reservation and said, in essence, well, everyone else is […]

WHIPLASH….Is it just me, or are the networks repeating their 2000 pattern of pushing the “Kerry’s going to win” storyline before switching late in the evening to “Bush has the momentum”? Lest we forget, it was that change in coverage that the Republicans used to jumpstart their “We wuz robbed” campaign in the days immediately […]