During his now infamous interview with Wolf Blitzer yesterday, Cheney appeared as a man on the brink of breaking down. His rhetoric even exhibits a high level of disconnect from what Bush is telling people. It is hard to believe we have a vice-President who is willing to act like this publicly. Perhaps it is […]
Bush: “We had over $18 billion in earmarks last year. We need to cut that in half this session” And which party had control of everything last year? Sounds like a great 2008 campaign soundbite to me. The Republican President admits that his own party is horrible with our money.
If I were a shareholder of a corporation and heard news that the corporation paid a CEO $14 million to be fired (this is what the Gap just did), my stock would instantly be sold. Sadly this is something we hear about more and more. Luckily we have a Democratically controlled Congress, and one Representative […]
To give you a taste of Ohio politics, here is something going on in my own backyard. I posted last September about the lockout at AK Steel, a prominent area employer. In that post I showed a picture of the new Butler County Republican headquarters, which came with a $800,000 price tag and donations from […]
This from one of the strongest supporters of the war: Sen. John Warner, the former GOP chairman and influential member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is set to introduce a second resolution Monday that expresses criticism of President Bush’s call for a troop increase in Iraq, a move Bush Administration officials have scrambled to […]
That is what this is all about: China faced a barrage of international condemnation from London to Canberra yesterday after it was revealed that it had launched a missile attack on an ageing weather satellite, a test that threatened to open a “Star Wars” space race. Formal protests were lodged with the Beijing government, accompanied […]
New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is now taking his first steps towards a White House run. This is another great candidate. Just sitting here thinking about everyone running now, the Democrats sure have a melting pot of candidates (Mexican, Black, woman). The Republican’s sure have – well the typical white Christian men running.