"Saturday Night Live" last night addressed Sen. Hillary "cattle futures" Clinton's announcement that she's running for president in their usual cynical, yet disturbingly accurate fashion. I love "Hillary's" triggers for deciding when the troops are "redeployed" from Iraq.
Nope, not our troops in Iraq, but President Bush. For more than a year, ever since the New York Times revealed the National Security Agency's terrorist wiretapping program involving international communications, conservatives have backed the president's actions based upon his constitutional authority as commander-in-chief and the legal authority of In Re Sealed Case (2002). Today, […]
Illinois junior Sen. Barack Obama has announced the formation of an exploratory committee for a run for the presidency in 2008. Obama's biography is rather thin gruel for a run for the presidency -- eight years in the Illinois State Senate and two years in the U.S. Senate -- for a presidential run. However, in […]
It's bad enough when Jimmy Carter and "the Rev." Jesse Jackson do it, but when you are an elected official, I think it's even worse. Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) is going to meet with Syrian president dictator/terrorist Bashar Assad. In an end-run around the Bush administration, Sen. Bill Nelson is scheduled to meet with Syrian […]
I was a bit young to comprehend what a force Jeane Kirkpatrick was when she served as President Ronald Reagan's ambassador to the United Nations. But I did know who Kirkpatrick was -- she was the one who was having a torrid affair with Bill the Cat. Kirkpatrick will probably best be remembered for her […]
Sunday's Washington Post opinion section, Outlook, features short articles by five historians on where President George W. Bush will rank in history. Four of the historians are so blinkered by their own politics that it's highly likely that they've never met someone who voted for Bush in person and the only Republicans they know are […]
First you had Virginia's incumbent Sen. George Allen "macaca" himself out of office with the help of an overzealous Washington Post. Now you've got that same state's Sen.-elect, Jim Webb, embracing his inner jackass. At a recent White House reception for freshman members of Congress, Virginia's newest senator tried to avoid President Bush. Democrat James […]
There's a certain type of person who simply can't be trusted to wield any sort of power. You know the type -- they were the self-important, arrogant jackasses in your high school class who somehow managed to avoid having reality give them a good kick in the butt. Today's example is something that probably went […]
When it became apparent that the Democrats had taken control of the House after this month's election, Democrat leader Nancy Pelosi stood in front of the cameras pledged to make this next Congress "the most honest, ethical, and open Congress in history." The "honest, ethical" formulation was last uttered by President-elect Bill Clinton, who then […]
Arkansas' outgoing Governor Mike Huckabee has got some serious chutzpah. You see, Arkansas law rightly prohibits public servants from getting gifts valued at more than $100 with certain exceptions. “Items costing more than $100 which are given to public servants to show appreciation for their efforts (i.e., to reward them for doing their job) or […]