Initially, after Ted Haggard [sort of] came clean about his homosexual fling with hooker Mike Jones, James Dobson was to be on the "treatment team." But several days later, he changed his mind giving time constraints as his reason. I sort of doubt that. Reverend Louis Sheldon of the ultraconservative Traditional Values Coalition reported that […]
More on the John Bolton Drama: 2nd Recess Appointment Means No Pay or Legal Challenges The President’s team ‘has a plan’ regarding the seemingly irrational obsession with keeping John Bolton working at the United Nations. We just don’t know what that plan is. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee will vote Bolton down, decisively and definitively, […]
So, where do we stand? The Democrats control the House of Representatives. There is a tenuous Democratic control of the Senate – tenuous because Joe LieberBOY is an Independent, very capable of changing Parties in a heartbeat. There’s a new Secretary of Defense who couldn’t possibly be as bad a Donald Rumsfeld. There seems to […]
Rove believed in his metrics. He miscalculated. How did Bush’s guru get the numbers so wrong? How did the man they call Bush’s brain get it so wrong? Rove’s miscalculations began well before election night. The polls and pundits pointed to a Democratic sweep, but Rove dismissed them all. In public, he predicted outright victory, […]
Lieberman Leaves GOP Door Open Four days after calling his party affiliation a "closed issue," U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman said Sunday he was "not ruling it out" that he could turn Republican. He told NBC’s "Meet the Press" he will return to Washington as an "Independent Democrat" – "capital I, capital D." "I’m not […]
My fog is finally clearing too. I’m over Mr. Bush. I’ve spent almost a year reading every book that comes out, more new articles than I want to admit, history books, looking up every political name that I don’t know, tracking neoconservatives, etc. I’m done with Bush and Cheney. They’ve been the worst, most disrespectful […]
Somebody let somebody else down. That’s what they’re saying. James Dobson said it loud and clear. The Republicans lost the election because they weren’t strong enough on the "values" issues – abortion, gay marriage, and stem-cell research. It’s hard for me to imagine what he’s talking about. I don’t know what else he could’ve done. […]
So, on election day, we headed north for a two day camping trip. Our planning was great. I wanted to miss the nail biting on election night. The days were, however, after the leaves had peaked, turned brown, and were carpeting the ground. It was also on day one of a two day rainstorm, with […]
I’ve had further thoughts about the Bolton nomination. If that’s the game, I think the best way to deal with President Bush and Vice President Cheney for the next two years is ignore them. Who cares what they think, really? They’ve run around playing Mr. God and God Junior for six years. Most of their […]
Bush stands by his man for U.N. envoy President Bush will not relent in his defense of John Bolton, his nominee for U.N. ambassador, despite unwavering opposition from Democrats who view Bolton as too combative for international diplomacy, aides said Sunday. Two of Bush’s top advisers said the White House is not backing down from […]