Seriously – will someone hand this nit-wit a newspaper? President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that he would hold Iran responsible if it hit American ships and warned the Islamic Republic not to behave provocatively in Gulf waters. “If they hit our ships, we will hold Iran responsible,” Bush told a small group of […]
That’s exactly what this is: A small group of Republicans facing election fights next year have rallied around war legislation they think could unite the GOP: call for an end to U.S. combat in Iraq, but wait until President Bush is out of office. The legislation was deemed essentially a nonstarter by Democrats Friday and […]
Ouch this has to hurt: A local Marine who service in Iraq earned several medals for serving his country, but he’s giving back one of the medals to the White House as a form of protest. Sgt. Matthew Bee is a decorated Akron Marine who spent seven months in Hadeetha, serving with the 3rd Battalion […]
This is a nice defeat for the GOP: Senators voted Thursday to reject a Republican effort to shrink taxes on inherited estates during this election year. GOP leaders had pushed senators to end the tax once and for all. It disappears in 2010, under President Bush’s first tax cut, but rears up again a year […]