The Republicans, who don’t control the Senate, yesterday successfully engineered a rare up-and-down vote on the war and the Democrats, who do control the Senate but haven’t been successful in scheduling any up-and-down votes on the war, went along with it. It wasn’t a matter of real substance, condemning the MoveOn.org ad, but it was […]

I’m depressed. And not just about the 50 or so soldiers that will be killed each month in the coming year to protect Bush’s failed policies, but I’m depressed about the up-coming elections and the trudge to succeed him.
As I see it, The Wife is going to get the nomination and Evan Bayh is likely […]

. . . and other quick observations.
Imagine . . . a political leader wanting to use Ground Zero for a photo op. No American would ever do that.
Rudy Giuliani . . . better known around the world than Britney Spears and three or four other people.
Staggeringly obvious headline of the day: “Many voters still undecided […]

. . . by reading this.
I’d try to fathom precisely why the folks putting on the Values Voter debate last night (which was blown off by Multiple Choice Mitt, Rudy, John the Baptist, and TV’s Fred, and attended only by the nutjobs in the field) felt the need to begin their debate in this manner […]

To amplify Jerry’s previous post, lost in most of the MSM is the outright cowardice of Bush putting a general in the position of defending and articulating a failed policy.  The executive makes policy, the military carries it out. When Bush puts Petraeus in front of the surge to insanity he not only betrays the […]

The latest Bin Laden tapes were such obvious frauds–easily debunked on both the left and right sides of the blogsphere–that it begs the question:  why is the Bush Administration pretending that it thinks Mr. Evil is still out there somewhere, plotting to take out the Holland Tunnel or the GW Bridge? 
What conceivable reason could Bushco have for wanting […]

And so the Bush strategy is clear:  stay the course, ride out his term, and dump Iraq and all the other consequences of the most disasterous presidential run in American history onto his successor.  If, as now seems likely, that person is a Democrat who begins bringing the troops home, she or he will be blamed for the inevitable collapse […]

Amy Goodman recently interviewed Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the 88-year-old poet and founder of City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco. He read a new poem.
PITY THE NATION
Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars,
whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its […]

Finally, a Repug tells the truth straight up.  Ohmygawd, Iraq is about oil!  Go figure.
How much better would Iraq have played if Bushco had the integrity and vision to proffer the following argument in 2001:
We’re in a period of Peak Oil where our entire way of life will be dramatically altered within the next 50 […]

I took the day off yesterday to catch the Petraeus hearings. I expected some fireworks, some tough questioning, some frothy exchanges, and maybe a little squirming. I got none of that until Congressman Wexler unloaded on the general, in his allotted five minutes, at the end of the day, long past the evening news deadline. […]