All politics is national in the 2006 midterm elections, with both parties willing to put aside deeply held views over war, taxes and more in the surpassing struggle for control of the House and Senate.
Former covert CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband sued Richard Armitage, the former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage, on Wednesday for disclosing her identity after her husband criticized the Bush administration.
A White House-backed bill that would enable a secret court to review President George W. Bush’s warrantless domestic spying program won approval on Wednesday from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
It shouldn’t surprise anyone that George W. Bush continues to lie to the American people about Iraq. Bush lies so much that it is doubtful now that even he can separate truth from fiction.
In the latest test of the country’s politics of polarization, the middle ground held on.
By PAUL C. CAMPOS
Of all the phony political images that have bombarded us in the five years since al Qaeda terrorists struck the United States, the phoniest of all remains the sight of George W. Bush donning a fighter pilot’s uniform and landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier to proclaim "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq.
The point of that little stunt was to send the visual message that Bush was the strong leader that America needed to triumph in a war against our enemies. As a piece of propaganda, it was fabulously successful. If the goal of propaganda is to make black seem white, then the fact the Bush administration still emphasizes this message is a tribute to the administration’s ongoing triumph in its propagandistic war against reality.
By MARGARET TALEV
McClatchy Newspapers
The Republican-led House of Representatives will vote this week on two measures that could help reveal who’s behind billions of dollars in pork-barrel spending each year.
That could help Republicans appeal to fiscally conservative voters who are frustrated by Congress’s runaway spending and threatening to stay home from the polls in November.
By MARTIN SCHRAM
In the category of how Washington really works — and often doesn’t — it is important to note just how often the smartest and most experienced players and observers seem to lose sight of how and why things really happen in the capital city.