Once upon a time, I worked for a guy who spent a lot of money on a high-priced executive coach. He and other members of upper management would attend weekly meetings in a penthouse office and role-play different scenarios under his guru’s guidance. My boss would always come back eager to test ...

Scott Horton on the nine OLC memos written to enhance the presidential powers of George W. Bush that were released this week: John Yoo’s Constitution is unlike any other I have ever seen. It seems to consist of one clause: appointing the President as commander-in-chief. The rest of the Constitutio...

Despite their many, many, many failings, the Democrats are concerned about what’s actually going on out in the world and make attempts to actually improve things. The Republicans, on the other hand, worry about one thing only: winning. WASHINGTON — The last time Congressional Republicans wer...

Would anyone be offended if I called Marc Thiessen a dumb fuck?...

Remember how easily the Republicans swallowed George Bush’s recent $1.4 trillion tax cut “stimulus” package - the one that didn’t do a damned thing to stimulate the economy? Apparently the media has forgotten, as well. Amnesia sweeps the Villagers!...

Bob Herbert: It’s been clear for years that the G.O.P. is a party without a heart. But its pointless obstructionism, its overall lack of any serious response to what is a clear national economic emergency, seems to indicate it’s also a party without a brain. Republicans in Washington have behave...

Perrspective: As I noted earlier, the Senate has apparently reached a $780 billion compromise stimulus package after supposed moderates amputated over $100 billion in funding for health care, education and other vital initiatives. While many of my liberal allies disagree with my assessment that Pres...

I think we need to give the Wall St. Journal the Big Brass Balls award for this one: This one is going to be fascinating to watch, less for what it says about Mr. Daschle than what it will reveal about Democratic standards. Every Republican in America knows that if Mr. Daschle were a Reagan or Bush ...

Wheeee! This is fun! Invoking President Barack Obama, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) has subpoenaed former Bush Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove about his alleged involved in the political prosecution of an Alabama governor and the firings of nine US Attorneys. The subpoena, a...

So they were tracing all our credit card transactions, too: NSA whistleblower Russell Tice was back on Keith Olbermann’s MSNBC program Thursday evening to expand on his Wednesday revelations that the National Security Agency spied on individual U.S. journalists, entire U.S. news agencies as we...