Archive for March, 2005
What Have We Become?
Johnny Got His Gun (1971): Joe: When it comes my turn, will you want me to go? Father: For democracy, any man would give his only begotten son. Father: He eats through a tube. And whatever comes in through a tube has to go out through a tube. He is the armless, legless wonder of [...]
Insert Obvious Joke About Not Being Able to Tell the Difference
White House Media May Get Temporary Boot (WaPo): The Bush administration is considering kicking the Washington press corps out of the White House — at least for a month or so, that is. The stuffy, packed, run-down White House briefing room has become something of a safety hazard over the years and may require a [...]
Never Mind That, O Gray Oracle, Where Will the Dow Be?
Any other prophecies for us, Bar? Barbara Bush said former first lady and current senator Hillary Rodham Clinton will be the Democratic candidate for president in 2008. But Sen. Clinton won’t be the nation’s first female president, at least not according to Mrs. Bush. Mrs. Bush, 79, said Clinton will lose in the next election. [...]
Look! News!
Too bad Uncle Ronnie isn’t here to save Terri from the evil communists. Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this postShare on Facebookshare via RedditShare with StumblersTweet about itBookmark in BrowserTell a friend
Fight or Flight
It’s been a long decade plus since Republicans swept to power in Congress. The smartest move they made in advance of the 1994 mid-term elections was to use their “Contract With America” to shift 435 distinct House races into one national race. Through a combination of scandals and other sins, the perception that Democrats were [...]
Unintended Consequences of the “Moral Values” Vote
Much has been said about the Ohio constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, an issue that many observers feel tilted the state to George Bush instead of John Kerry in the 2004 elections. That led to approximately 15 billion stories about so-called “moral values” and the heartland voters who were sending a message to the godless [...]
The Joys of the Free Market and Deregulation
Despite having three fatal accidents in the last year (including Wednesday’s that has killed 15 so far), BP’s CEO John Browne is calling their Texas City, TX refinery “a very safe plant.” I do not pretend to be an expert in plant safety, but averaging a fatal accident every four months doesn’t seem to meet [...]
Activist Congressmen
For the last four years, a dangerous political game has played out between the White House and Congress. The President hands down divisive nominations for federal judgeships and Senate Democrats choose the worst of the worst to stop by their only means: the filibuster. This has been enabled by the general apathy of the public [...]
What’s Missing Here?
Where old politicians go to die: Moving past last year’s Senate defeat, Tom Daschle, the former Democratic leader, is joining a law firm where he will be reunited with one of his old Senate adversaries, Bob Dole. The firm, Alston & Bird, based in Atlanta, is to announce Monday that Mr. Daschle will become a [...]
Shadow Government
Another in a seemingly endless patented blend of “Hey, doesn’t that headline / cover story / photograph remind you of that OTHER headline / cover story / photograph?” Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig and MLB Chief Operating Officer Bob Dupuy at Thursday’s Congressional hearings Other corrupt officials not subject to Congressional hearings Bookmark on DeliciousDigg this [...]