January 8, 2008
The Way Republicans Roll
The very rich are different from you and me.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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December 6, 2007
In The Belly Of The Whale
‘Tis the season for reflection, retrospection, and reminiscing, I suppose, and worth therefore, considering: “how did we get here?”
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October 11, 2007
The Trouble With Congress
Both Digby and Glenn Greenwald beat me to the punch, but Dana Milbank was out Wednesday in The Washington Post with a little piece on Nancy Pelosi’s performance at a recent lunch with reporters in D.C. that shows clearly why, as David Byrne put it so well, “this is not my beautiful wife!”
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September 30, 2007
Freedom’s On The March?
Once it became clear the Bush administration’s original, loudly trumpeted, and wildly over-hyped rationale for invading Iraq four and a half years ago was a total fabrication, the President himself and every other enabler and apologist for the idea that the United States ought to — indeed, is destined to — exercise hegemony over the entire planet — all — have relied on one, or both, of two arguments to explain the expense of lives and treasure, and excuse the rising instability and danger that have been the consequences of that ill-fated decision:
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August 14, 2007
As The Turd Turns
Karl Rove gave President Bush his two week notice on Monday. After August 31, the liberal media, and the moonbat blogosphere, and the netroots won’t have him to kick around anymore.
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July 14, 2007
Songs Of Freedom
Let it not be said George W. Bush has led an inconsequential life.
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May 15, 2007
Trouble Comin’ Every Day
Beleaguered Attorney General Alberto “Fredo” Gonzales was back on Capitol Hill last week, where he continued to deny that he or anyone else he could think of placed the names of up to nine United States Attorneys on a list of Justice Department employees who were forced to resign their positions last winter after having been identified by “senior leadership of the department” as being insufficiently loyal to White House political objectives.
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January 31, 2007
When Chickens Come Home To Roost
It seems to me the entire span of George W. Bush’s tenure in office has been one long game of Three Card Monte.
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January 24, 2007
The Biggest Dick In America
Does anyone else want to kill Dick Cheney? I mean put both hands around his fat, fleshy windpipe and just choke the life out of the bastard? Or get not-quite-falling-down drunk and shoot him in the face with a shotgun? How about hang him from the end of a good, sturdy rope and film it all with a cell phone camera? Maybe just waterboard him once a day for every American who’s been killed or wounded in Iraq…
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January 11, 2007
The President, In The Library, With The Plan
Little more than one year ago, on November 30, 2005, the Bush administration unveiled to great fanfare a glossy, red, white, and blue publication entitled, National Strategy for Victory in Iraq. The president made a big speech to the midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD, where he said, among other things,
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