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Living Up To Lame Duck Status
President Bush just finished his latest empty speech on global warming. As usual, it was designed to give of appearance of action without actually acting. He did not take questions, presumably because he knows the flimsy rhetoric could not withstand five seconds of...
Five Questions That Should Be Asked At Tonight's Debate
Last week, Al Meyerhoff offered a series of thoughtful questions for tonight's debate between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, 8 PM ET on ABC. In the desperate hope it won't be 90 minutes of blather about supposed gaffes that voters appear completely...
McCain’s Economic Remedy: A Double Dose of the Same
On Wall Street, the masters of the universe have turned to prayer and worry beads. At the Federal Reserve, a full night’s sleep is a fading memory. Across Main Street, the recession is starting to hit, stores are shutting down, bankruptcies are spreading, houses are...
How to Kill An Army: A Scenario
John McCain, who from the early 1980s worked hard to establish himself the one of the Senate's shining champions of Vietnam veterans' issues, completed his betrayal of the Iraq-era troops today. Brandon Friedman of vetvoice.com has the details: Yesterday VoteVets.org...
Taxing News for Tax Day
It's almost quitting time, and if you've put off your taxes and haven't paid them online, you've probably scoped out the post office in your neighborhood with the latest closing time. Or maybe you're planning to speed to the nearest one before it closes. Chances are...
Colombia Trade Deal Is Derailed. Let's Keep It Off the Tracks
In August 2004, Hector Alino Martinez and three other Colombian trade unionists were dragged out of their homes and assassinated in the streets of Caño Seco. The men were among 96 unionists killed in Colombia that year. But supporters of Bush's drive to ram the...
A Patriotic Day
Today is Tax Day, the deadline for filing our tax returns. It is fundamentally a patriotic day, the day where we citizens fund our own government. We are no longer ruled by monarchs who govern by the power of their own wealth. With taxation, we have representation. We...
One Year After Filibuster, Drug Costs Soaring
It was nearly one year go when a conservative filibuster stifled the new congressional majority, did the bidding of the pharmaceutical and insurance companies, and kept the ban on Medicare from negotiating with companies to lower drug costs. So what's been happening...
Great Moments In Straight Talk: Recession Edition
Sen. John McCain, today, from The Politico: Asking for a dose of straight talk, AP's Liz Sidoti asked McCain if the country had entered recession. "I certainly think so," McCain replied. John McCain, January 10, 2008, at a GOP presidential debate: And by the way, I...
Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up
A particularly shameful day for the Sunday shows, which once again went 0-for-3 for the Watchdog. It is simply pathetic that ABC's This Week failed to ask National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley about the latest bombshell report, from ABC no less, that senior Bush...
