As most, I spent a lot of time yesterday watching the miracle that was flight 1549. Chesley B. “Sully” Sullenberger, the pilot of the plane, is a hero to the end for his handling of the disaster at 3,000 feet. Something that I did notice while checking out blogosphere coverage of the near tragedy was […]
Pat Buchanan on MSNBC just now saying how Eric Holder being AG would be nothing but problems because he is close to Obama. Funny how it was never a problem with Republicans when Gonzales was AG and so close to Bush.
Bush on King last night: KING: So there’s nothing you’ve done in the area of treatment of prisoners that causes you any kind of pause? G. BUSH: No. No. Everything we did was — you know, it had legal — legal opinions behind it. Look, you’re sitting there, you’ve captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. He’s the […]
Bush was praising No Child Left Behind this week, so it’s time to point out one little accomplishment of that – sex for degrees: The student, from San Diego, California, USA, insisted she was not demeaning herself and had been persuaded to offer herself to the highest bidder after her sister Avia, 23, successfully raised […]
Voinovich that Son of a bitch (as my great grandmother always referred to him as) announced this morning that he is retiring. When rumors started circulating about this the other day, I said it could become a very hopeful pickup for Democrats in 2010. Hopefully someone like Tim Ryan will become the next senator for […]
Bush’s legacy keeps on building: The nation’s unemployment rate bolted to 7.2 percent in December, the highest level in 16 years, as nervous employers slashed 524,000 jobs, capping one of the worst years in modern history for American workers. But those are just the unemployed. Let’s not forget those who are still working, but have […]
He is continuing to lay out his plans for getting our economy back on track. That’s much more than Bush is doing – blaming everyone else.
One thing that is a big difference between Bush and Obama is the lack of cronies we see going into our new administration. Barack Obama’s picks for Cabinet and other senior posts are many things: centrists, veterans, rivals. Most of all, though, they’re big: big names, big intellects and big egos. The president-elect’s national security […]
Barack Obama has now said that executives of these failing banks should forfeit their bonuses: Asked whether bank executives should forgo their bonuses, Obama said: “I think they should.” He also said it would show they are taking responsibility. “I think that if you are already worth tens of millions of dollars, and you are […]
Timeline fever is catching on, and now Afghanistan has caught it: President Hamid Karzai demanded at a meeting with a UN Security Council team Tuesday that the international community set a “timeline” for ending military intervention in Afghanistan, his office said. Karzai told a delegation from the Council that his country needed to know how […]