Political Flab

And the pre-planned farce plays out: Congress voted to extend the Bush tax cuts — how could they not? They were engineered to require reauthorization in an election year. And who wants to vote against a tax cut in  [more...]

Richard Cohen in the Post asks the question I’ve asked many times: when is the Bush administration going to take any responsibility… for anything? He boils it down to an almost absurd conclusion. Or is it  [more...]

Wow. I was unemotional and pretty pragmatic about Obama’s inauguration, but I have to say I’ve been impressed by the first 3 or 4 days. Halted implementation of the last of Bush’s restrictive and  [more...]