On NBC Nightly News, Brian Williams asks John Bush McCain about Iraq. “Will your support be there for however many U.S. troops are required?” McCain answers emphatically: “Yes.”
Senility has set in and the man OBVIOUSLY does not have full control of his mental facilities.
Either that…or he is TOTALLY out of touch with the VAST MAJORITY of the American people.
With Hillary Rodham Clinton headed for what many consider a well-deserved place in the political dustbin of has-beens, new polls suggest that she may be just what presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama does not need on his ticket as a Vice Presidential candidate.
Dennis the Menace is at it again. The mouth that roared in Congress is trying, once again, to impeach President George W. Bush.
Although Bush certainly deserves impeachment for all his high crimes against the Constitution, it will take someone with more clout and credibility than Kuchinich to make that happen. The Ohio Congressman that couldn’t is a Capitol Hill joke and a laughing stock to other members on the Hill.
Kucinich, who has also launched two impossible campaigns for President and failed miserably both times, is the Congressional equivalent of a flea climbing up an elephant’s leg with rape on his mind.
The amazing aspect of escalating gasoline prices — they reached the lamentable landmark of $4 a gallon over the weekend — is that they haven’t done more damage to the U.S. economy.
The oil-price shocks of the ’70s and ’80s did much worse damage, but today’s economy seems much more resilient with interest rates low, exports surging and the dollar showing signs of stabilizing.
Well, where do we go from here?
The answer, for millions of Americans, is not very far if the oil barons and commodities speculators have their way. The cheap gas culture that has driven the nation’s economy and fostered unprecedented mobility may be over for good, leaving a major wreck along its vast network of superhighways that could take a decade or two to clean up.
I’d intended to spend only one night in Toulouse, in southern France. But when I tried to buy a train ticket to Madrid on the evening of my arrival, I discovered that the following day was dedicated to a general strike. Trains, buses, and even many airlines were taking the day off. This happened to be the same day that the price of oil hit $135 per barrel.
When I wondered aloud, "Is infidelity a sin whose time has come?" my colleague retorted, "It never left!" Indeed, the string of politicians, sports figures and movie stars cheating on their wives is an endless parade of mea culpas.
"Why do men cheat?" I asked Dr. Ruth Westheimer, psychosexual therapist, as faculty and fellows gathered for the Yale commencement this year. Her voice escalated. "It’s not only men! And put an exclamation point there. I have nothing more to say."
Majority leader’s hiring initiative begins to pay off. See also: Time for an honest conversation on race
In an Ideas piece, Cleaver says the next president should call for an honest conversation about race.
Obama’s ban on contributions from lobbyists and PACs irritates Democratic lobbyists and fundraisers.