We’ve already seen House Democrats unanimously approve, and then completely ignore, a resolution calling for the $800 billion so-called “stimulus” bill to be made available in final form to the American public for 48 hours before a final vote was taken on it. The American people en...

The New Life Church took a big hit in 2006 when its Pastor, Rev. Ted Haggard, was caught with a male prostitute. Boy, we on the left had fun with that one, a man who preached with all the other Right Wing Christian Mullahs about the evils of homosexuality found to be paying for a little man sex. Hyp...

Dick Cheney is out of office, and already an ugly footnote in history, a man who learned dirty politics and a lust for power early, and then put those values into practice over the last eight years. American history will come to see Dick Cheney as arrogant and as an enemy of the constitution. But fo...

Keith Olbermann’s Countdown broke the story last night, with Russell Tice, former NSA analyst, stating explicitly that the Bush Administration (illegal) wiretap surveillance program was monitoring journalists. DailyKos has a good diary on the subject, but here’s the transcript of the Olb...

by Walter Brasch The chairman of the Republican National Committee may have begun an irreversible descent into a future as a fear-bound paranoid victim of functional amnesia, possibly caused by a hysterical post-traumatic event such as the overwhelming victory of Democrats in the 2008 election and t...

In recent history, the New York Times hasn’t been a publication that is given to sparking a lot of controversy, especially where supposed “national security” issues are concerned. Perhaps that’s a result of being the newspaper of record, in the city of record on 9/11/2001. Or...

Neal Gabler has a nice column in yesterday’s LA Times where he ponders the notion of the Republican intellectual center. He’s following avidly, as we all are, the infighting among the GOPers as they fight to remake themselves. Will the GOP follow the extremist social conservatives, or wi...

The current political climate and the divisiveness of modern campaigns is an embarrassment to this country. The politicians have found they can just lie without remorse, because there seems to be no accountability. As someone once said, in a democracy, we get the government we deserve. We let this c...

There are some things that I just don’t understand. In 2003, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell went before the U.N., and basically lied his ass off in making the Bush administration’s case for a preemptive invasion of a sovereign nation. Later, he claimed he was duped (or at least wor...

On Sunday, the New York Times’ Frank Rich gave readers a lot to think about as he previewed the upcoming book, The Dark Side, which has been in the works for several years. Jane Mayer, who has been investigating and tracking malfeasance in the Bush administration for the New Yorker, has writte...