Rope to hang himself

“The one thing we can say about George W. Bush is we will be forever in his debt.” — Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), after the administration’s recent announcement that this year’s deficit, an  [more...]

Okay, so , never let it be said that I am strictly partisan — now that there will be a Democratic-led Congress for the first time since I started blogging, let’s see how long it takes them to do something  [more...]

From today’s column by E.J. Dionne: It has long been said that Americans have short attention spans, but this is ridiculous: Our bold, urgent, far-reaching, post-Katrina war on poverty lasted maybe a month. Credit  [more...]