So Bush is supposed to make a big speech today on climate change. The problem is he still doesn’t want to do anything: Bush will speak forcefully about concerns he has over a possible rush to address the Earth’s warming through a hodgepodge of regulations under existing federal laws such as the Clean Air Act […]
McCain has his economic plan: When Senator John McCain was asked here this afternoon how he plans to balance the budget, he said that he hoped to do so by stimulating economic growth – and approvingly cited the example of President Ronald Reagan As The Huffington Post points out, and anyone over the age of […]
Hillary has constantly talked about her Bosnia trip as First Lady and “landing under sniper fire”. She started that months ago and continued it this week: I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down […]
Just now breaking. Two State Department contractrual employees have been fired over it and a third has been “disciplined”. This apparently happened back in January and the Obama campaign is asking why it took so long to notify him. This same type thing happened back in 1992 when people in the Bush 41 administration accessed […]
Two new items up at Straight Talk McCain. The first is about another gaffe John made yesterday, this time in Israel. He compared the Jewish holiday Purim, a time to celebrate the Jewish people being saved from mass execution while living in Persia, to “their version of Halloween“. Secondly – it appears that this weeks […]
The feds cut interest rates by 3/4 of a point, down to 2.25%. God bless the Bush economy! More money for the greedy.
By having his agencies screw up the terrorist watch list: A new Justice Department audit shows that for nearly three years the FBI gave outdated, incomplete and error-riddled data about terror suspects to be added to the government’s watchlist. Overall, the audit by the department’s inspector general gives the FBI a mixed review for its […]
Our sinking dollar is causing oil to rise to new records. Today our dollar sunk even lower: The euro traded at $1.5769 in midday trading in Europe, up from $1.5687 late Friday in New York. The euro rose as high as $1.5904 earlier Monday. But don’t worry. Bush says they are “on top of it“. […]
Bush just said the economy is having a “rough time”. This is a step up from a “slowdown” a couple of week ago. Of course he is insisting that they are on top of it and will fix it. I agree – it will be fixed as soon as a Democrat is in the White […]
He says they aren’t making “significant progress”: Iraqi leaders have failed to take advantage of a reduction in violence to make adequate progress toward resolving their political differences, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said Thursday. Petraeus, who is preparing to testify to Congress next month on the Iraq war, said […]