Bush Defends Spy Program and Denies Misleading Public is hard to swallow. The essence of Mr. Bush’s statement is that he was speaking just about the Patriot Act when he talked about getting court orders, not the N.S.A. surveillance. That’s just not the truth. It’s stardard operating procedure, like Rove’s "I didn’t say her name." […]
The Bush White House is like the old ‘iron curtain’ of my youth. Who knows what goes on in there? But I know that I woke up this morning with Karl Rove on the brain. That speech [below] right before he was ‘revealed’ has been with me since he gave it six months ago. It’s […]
Conservatives believe in lower taxes; liberals believe in higher taxes. I doubt there are any liberals who ‘believe in’ higher taxes. Sane people realize that lowering taxes in the manner Reagan and Bush lower taxes is folly. One has only to look at the National Debt to see why. The idea of a balanced budget […]
Let me now say a few words about the state of liberalism. Perhaps the place to begin is with this stinging indictment: “Liberalism is at greater risk now than at any time in recent American history. The risk is of political marginality, even irrelevance.… [L]iberalism risks getting defined, as conservatism once was, entirely in negative […]