That's the kind of dollars and change the G.O.P. believes in.

Posted at August 4, 2008 12:56 PM in response to Multiple Oil Company Executives Gave Huge Contributions To Electing McCain Just Days After Offshore Drilling Reversal

Ha-ha. It's so funny.

Panties on the head, on a muslim, is no big deal, particularly when they are those of a menstruating woman. Is this the 21st Century, or what? They should get with it - what Amnesty and the Geneva Convention call torture is just a Friday night frat party at Yale. Toughen up, will you?

Posted at June 4, 2008 6:10 PM in response to Rohrabacher: Frat Parties Aren't Torture

Ah, as if we didn't know. These people would poison their own children living by a health hazard if it would assist their corporate overlords.

Posted at June 3, 2008 12:07 PM in response to Today's Must Read

Interesting. No mention of the fact that seniors and pensioners are having a horrible time getting the medicine they were used to getting.

The large issues weigh on the scale, but not as heavily as the ones that hit home. Remember the deadline for registration for those who wanted bankruptcy protection? What happened to Medicare? How transparent it became that the president and his cronies were out to benefit big business at the expense of the common man?

And everyone also realized that Bush dared steal two elections - the MSM didn't take a hard look at Ohio, but the chatter did.

Katrina made it abundantly clear that something is seriously wrong with the U.S.A. Not just with the GOP. The stage managed Bush with his lit up background fell off the map when he clambered back on board Air Force 1, his blue shirt soaked with sweat.

That was the turning point. Now all the crazed and batty ideas disseminated by this delusional presidency are coming home to shit all over it now.

Posted at December 26, 2006 1:15 PM in response to Event of the (Two) Year (Cycle)?

David Brooks is desperate. Ever since they introduced Times Select, he's been at the bottom of the pile in reads among the columnist "elite" there, and he rarely appears on the list of columnists whose entries are e-mailed to others.

He's been trying to have it both ways to woo readers, before the editors figure out how irrelevant his voice is.

Posted at November 10, 2006 12:09 PM in response to David Brooks and The Ghost of Left-Liberalism Past

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Posted at January 24, 2006 5:24 PM in response to Department of Semantics

Times Select is giving Brooks a reality check. He's never been in the top-20 e-mailed list since that was introduced.
Brooks has been shilling, wittingly, for the administration for years. Now he has to face facts - it's going to be a long journey for him. Lots of stuff to check and balance, so to speak.
The man's been a fool, and knows it.

Posted at December 17, 2005 3:57 AM in response to Letter Unprinted by the New York Times

There are scores of articles and commentaries in the press outside the U.S. about the xenophobic attitude of N.O. officials when the evacuation was underway.
Many foreigners were bluntly told that the evacuation was only for U.S. citizens, and that foreigners were on their own. Many of these found their way to the Superdome and the Convention center. Lengthy reports in the BBC, SkyNews, French televison, German television, etc., are documenting this curious practise.
Wonder whether the U.S. would have liked to see the Thais do something similar to Americans during the Tsunami?
The U.S. seriously has to get its shit together - it's devolving into a predatory polity with no sense of self, no sense of the common good and no sense of humanity.

Posted at September 7, 2005 1:08 PM in response to Three Days In Hell

A respectable polity would long since have conducted a thorough examination of the shameful manner in which intelligence was suppressed, twisted and exaggerated, in order for Cheney and the Neo-Cons to carry out their nation-grab of Iraq.

Instead, the GOP have exploited their dominance of Congress to make a travesty of the democratic process. We have not had a proper investigation of the politicizing of WMD-evidence in the pre-war period, in spite of Congress and the White House professing this would happen, though after last year's elections.

 Nor has Congress taken seriously David Kay's request that Congress investigate the politicizing of WMD-intelligence, which led him to resign as head of the ISG.

Fortunately, it appears as if it is all coming to light now, albeit in no manner that will bring credit to either the administration or its too willing GOP lackeys. 

Posted at July 21, 2005 7:43 AM in response to State Got It Right on Niger

Durbin came out strongly about the inadequacies of the report. The committee had been forbidden to look into the administration's pushing of intelligence, and Durbin went public with his criticism of that, among other things.

Posted at July 16, 2005 10:26 PM in response to More on Ivo's Point about Nigerien Uranium