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haunting us from the crypt…

‘Power broker’ Cheney gets Iraqi pledge for long-term agreement. The AP reports that “Vice President Dick Cheney played the part of backroom power broker” during his visit to Iraq and “came away” with “pledges from Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds to firm up a new blueprint for U.S.- Iraq relations that will stretch beyond the Bush […]

good enough for me…

[watch the whole thing here]   I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas. I was raised with the help of a white grandfather who survived a Depression to serve in Patton’s Army during World War II and a white grandmother who worked on a bomber assembly […]

… the Republican machine …

Gunsmoke: Why is the Bush administration silent on the new Pentagon report? by William Kristol … So, this week’s fifth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war will bring us countless news stories reexamining the case for war, with the White House essentially pleading nolo contendere. Even though there is abundant evidence that Iraq […]

more on Hate politics…

It’s such a low-life way to do things, but it has worked in the past. In one small page, the Limbaugh staff has said everything that the Republican Candidates won’t say by will imply in every breath. Obama’s choice of churches determines his character, even when he doesn’t attend. His book, the Audacity of Hope […]

what I think…

In the 2000 campaign, Al Gore and George W. Bush pretty much split along traditional lines – Conservative versus Liberal, Democrat versus Republican. There were a couple of things we didn’t know, at least the general public didn’t know. We didn’t know 911 was coming. Apparently, Bill Clinton knew, or had an idea. I recall […]

a duck who is unable to keep up with its flock…

Bush’s economic policy now looks as disastrous as his foreign adventurism Now here’s a chilling moment of convergence. In the same week as the conflict in Iraq passes its fifth anniversary, a big financial beast, the Bear Sterns bank, goes belly up on Wall Street. Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz estimates the war has cost $3 […]

after all these years…

"If you look back on those five years it has been a difficult, challenging but nonetheless successful endeavor … and it has been well worth the effort…I was last in Baghdad 10 months ago and I sense, as a result of the progress that has been made since then, phenomenal changes in terms of the […]

worst since World War II

Worst Since World War II Remember how just a few weeks days ago, BushCo was trying to argue we weren’t yet in a recession? Well, all of a sudden, this the worst recession since World War II. There’s Marty Feldstein: "The United States has already slipped into a deep recession that could be the most […]

this magic moment…

Seems like a couple of weeks ago, Obama was a Moslem. Now, he’s the wrong kind of Christian. When Eliot Spitzer from New York turns out to be a ho-hopper, Hillary Clinton [also representing New York] is "hurt" because of Bill’s affair with Monica 8 or 9 years ago [and she and Spitzer’s shared "New […]

the surge is working?

Cheney, McCain, and Lieberman are all in Iraq right now, gathering good news to bring home for the coming campaign. The surge is working, they’ll say. Deaths are down. Our new strategy [hiring insurgents to fight on our side] is turning things around. Oil Production [the Hydrocarbon Law] is on the rise [almost up to […]