OK, maybe I’m dense…I know all of you on the right are sure of it, but…That big unanswered question…But, when exactly will the war in Iraq be over? We keep being told it will be…

I didn’t look to see how the op-ed pages tried to spin their own survey, but the data looks pretty bad for the gang in the White House. Nearly half of Americans don’t trust President…

Jim Wright says it all right here…  It would help immensely if the president can remember that every senator and representative considers him- and herself chosen and charged by the public and instructed by the…

This was in the newsfeed from the Houston Chronicle today.  In the new spirit of media disclosure, I should tell you that I own several Dixie Chicks CDs. But I’m not writing this as an adoring…

The take away paragraph tells the story of this President’s term in office.  Bush has always supported a faith-based initiative, but his recitation of beliefs in the East Room yesterday — he listed no fewer than…

Tony Snow had this to say about his boss and his environmental policies… Mr. Bush had in fact been “keenly committed both to environmentalism and conservationism from the start.”  Must be something in the Kool-Aide…

Somehow, after four years, the debate on Iraq is still animated by wishful thinking. The White House talks as if a surge of 20,000 troops is going to stop a civil war. Democrats argue that…

Charles Krauthammer takes us to task for those blaming  America for the deaths in Iraq… We have made a lot of mistakes in Iraq. But when Arabs kill Arabs and Shiites kill Shiites and Sunnis…

 Another tribute to a life lived large… Remembering Molly Ivins Source: Remembering Molly Ivins

Molly Ivins, the liberal newspaper columnist who delighted in skewering politicians and interpreting, and mocking, her Texas culture, died today at her home in Austin. She was 62. Ralph Barrera/Austin American-Statesman, via Associated Press Molly…

I don’t know about you but to me it looks to me like Bush and Cheney have seen to many police shows on TV. I mean come on guys, good cop bad cop is so…

 You have to wonder what they are putting in the Kool-Aid at the Cheney manse. Vice President Cheney said yesterday that the administration has achieved “enormous successes” in Iraq but complained that critics and the…

Some day we will be able to put the DeLay era behind us. I feel sorry for Virginia…  AUSTIN  — A part of the criminal case that helped drive former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom…

All it took was for the ruling party to be kicked out of power. Now we have legislators actually legislating. Perish the thought, the Republican minority may have to prove that government can actually can…

Today’s papers are full of news of war and rumors of war, both real and political. There are a number of sites around the internet that will give you better coverage of this than I will….

William F Buckley Jr has an article on the thought process behind a vote on “the Surge” that starts like this…  You are a Republican legislator, retiring after this, your fifth term. Last night, into the…

Today’s Washington Post Editorial by Richard Cohen goes a long way in making me understand the “inner” Bush that has seemed so out of touch with reality. Mr. Cohen gets your attention with the first…

 This Washington Post Editorial touches on a number of points about the Bush tax cuts, most of which are not in the President’s favor. PRESIDENT BUSH wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed Wednesday that…

Just don’t “suggest” to the “decider” that he can’t do what he wants…He may pick up his ball and go home…  After an election in which war-weariness was a motivating force for the defeat of Republican…

I read George Will’s column last evening and couldn’t wrap my mind around his argument. I revisited it this morning and find his bait and switch tactics perverse. A three-judge federal court recently tugged a thread that…

Even in a holiday season, politics requires that politicians put in an appearance. Presidential funerals don’t happen often, when they do, you go. Nothing shows the depth of a man like the way he shows…

 From the parallel universe of Robert Novak. “Environmentalists’ well-financed propaganda operation”…Does the man live in this universe? Industry has been spending many times the amounts the environmentalists have but the truth is still coming thru…

 Isn’t this just so like the American cliche that the rest of the world sees…We don’t like the results of this messy thing called democracy so lets change the government that resulted. Isn’t Bush just…

After listening to some of the hearing on the radio, I am forced to agree with the Post. What does it say about America, that the ruling party for the last decade have placed the biggest…

It’s a bit disconcerting to have Peggy Noonan agree with me on anything. But she seems to have had the same gut reaction to the Bush/Web confrontation that I did. Sadly that was pretty much…

I am sorry Ken, but it has nothing to do with Conservative or Liberal Principles and everything to do with Moral Principles.  Mehlman acknowledged voter anger about the Iraq war and a spate of GOP corruption…

George Will has decided he will hold a newly elected Senator to a higher standard that the President and Vice-President of the United States. Go figure. I agree if Jim Webb really wanted to make a statement…

I found the following paragraphs most telling. In an article in the latest issue of the conservative Weekly Standard, Yuval Levin, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, explains the tension between the…

It was pretty obvious even right after the elections that the president wasn’t changing his approach. If anything he seemed to be rubbing the fact that he wasn’t in the democrats face. President Bush’s political…

Jim Hightower is one of the few Texas Progressive Politicians my generation has seen. He has a real talent for cutting through the BS that most politicians sling…Hey, how about indulging yourself with a hot…

The election may be over but the battle to protect the American Constitution has just begun. Do not think that if these rulings are allowed to stand that they will only be used  against non-citizens. It…

Why can’t papa Bush just slap him up side his head? Where will this country be after two more years? Hell, everyone reading these posts know how I feel about the decider-in-chief, so forgive my…

 I find myself intrigued… I’d like to try this idea in Elizabeth, New Jersey Tyler Cowen How about cities without any traffic signs or lights?: European traffic planners are dreaming of streets free of rules…

This morning’s OP-ED from David Broder makes some interesting points. He has divided the Bush Presidency into four phases. I think he should have added a fifth.  In trying to gauge where things stand in our government…

Excuses sound hollow when you’re trapped in a flimsy trailer. For Gulf Coast residents waiting for long-promised government housing assistance, patience has given way to anger, and anguish. What is clear more than a year…

It is nice to read something on the Op-Ed pages at the WSJ that I can agree with for a change. Looks like the new Senator from Virginia has a way with telling it like it is…  The most…

She was the last of the Blue Governors from the Great State of Texas. Bush and Rove lied her out of office. Now the whole country knows what it’s like to live in Texas. AUSTIN…

Today’s emails brought the following: On their journey through the stages of grief, conservatives don’t yet seem to have gotten past denial. Republicans may have lost, conservatives argue, but only because they misplaced their ideology….

It really does my heart good to see the “l” word starting to be used in regards to the administration. Maybe if we quit dodging the truth, it will set us free…”Washington’s easy acceptance of…

“When Democratic committee chairmen issue subpoenas and conduct oversight hearings, will news accounts portray them as harassing the White House? Or will journalists recognize that aggressive congressional inquiries were a normal practice until the GOP…

It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.After arguing during the campaign that Democrats would undermine national security, President Bush changed course today and said America’s enemies should not read this week’s ground-shaking election…

“Journalists by nature shy from pinning the “liar” label on any political leader, but President Bush’s acknowledgments that he had not been forthcoming about his plans to dump Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld have kicked…

I guess the reason I have been quiet in regards to the resounding change in the political climate is I have been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Congratulation to all of the winners…

This story caught my interest today because the company I work for changed our insurance to United last year. Now I wonder who it is that is being insured.How William McGuire earned that fat paycheck…

If there is any question about what happened yeaterday, think about this…Half full: Perceptions of the economy, like its rewards, vary wildly and help to explain the election results. | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle: “Houston…

Angry Campaigns End on an Angrier Note – washingtonpost.com:”‘As you go to the polls, remember we’re at war,’ (President Bush) told thousands of GOP supporters in Pensacola, Fla. ‘And if you want this country to…

I think anyone who has read my post would know my political leaning, but that’s beside the point. Today’s lesson in democracy is Go Vote. This really is one of those things where if you…

That’s the question Eugene Robinson asks in today’s column.Eugene Robinson – How Low Will Bush Go? – washingtonpost.com:”If Democrats manage to take control of one or both houses of Congress on Tuesday, the reason will…

All I am going to say is, I agree.The Great Divider – New York Times: “As President Bush throws himself into the final days of a particularly nasty campaign season, he’s settled into a familiar…

The record of this administration should be the textbook example in why corporations are not “persons”. And now, before they can’t get away with it anymore, it’s time for the payback. As if most of…