Proposition 8 “served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the status and human dignity of gays and lesbians in California, and to officially reclassify their relationship and families as inferior to those of opposite-sex couples.”

I know, I’m harping on it, but so did Dubya: it’s that Clintonian method of bending words to fit what you mean. Bush used Clinton’s rather pathetic attempts to parse his way out of trouble as  [more...]

Take a look at this shocking graphic from Reuters. It shows the history of the U.S. budget surplus/deficit since the Johnson administration. Note that the previous record deficits were under Reagan and Bush I. Bush II  [more...]

“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...]