[UPDATED WITH PRECISE QUOTE] Tara Setmayer, a Republican strategist and fellow with the Coalition of Urban Renewal and Education, on CNN "This Morning": "Donald Rumsfeld has been an excellent...
Author - Bob Cesca
NYT: Mental health 'the story of this war'
Another in a growing list of parallels between Iraq and Vietnam. The NY Times today profiled a report from the U.S. Army which warns that a serious mental health crisis is facing American soldiers in...
Morality on the March
"What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is...
Delusional Inaugural 2005
The White House is planning a splendid inauguration for Bush on January 20, complete with fireworks and the theme: "Celebrating Freedom, Honoring Service." Don't laugh. An "honoring service" theme...
And you wanna be my latex salesman
How will Alberto Gonzales handle his duties as Attorney General -- the nation's highest ranking law enforcement official -- if he couldn't even figure out, as White House counsel, that Bernard Kerik...
Thank you, Mr. President
President Bill Clinton while walking through Central Park this week... VERBAL MUGGER: You were an embarrassment to the office of commander-in-chief! PRESIDENT CLINTON: Oh, really? I think I did a...
Is the nanny a disinformation effort?
It appears as if Kerik's nanny issue was simply disinformation fed to the public in an effort to withdraw focus from more serious charges against the embattled former DHS nominee. The New York Times...
Quietly, democracy presses on
From the AP: Jeannette Harrison, middle, observer for the campaign of Sen. John Kerry, and Denise McCoskey, right, observer for the campaign of the Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb...
Fox News priority watch, 12.15.04
The Fox News pundits (Hannity, Buchanan, and O'Reilly mainly) seem to think that somehow Christmas is going to be cancelled. Forever and ever. "Christmas Under Attack!" the logos say. Kids can't sing...
Ask not what Bush can do for you…
From the Mark Scott school of simplistic solutions to complex problems (ie. reduce poverty by exiling the poor), comes this Bush gem from today: There's a trade deficit. That's easy to resolve:...
Yellow magnets: 'Your ad here'
While driving into work this morning, a car directly ahead of me had two of our favorite ribbon magnets adhered to either side of its trunk key lock. But these ribbons looked unusually cheap: no...
Typical Scarborough
Joe Scarborough of MSNBC's Scarborough Country has taken aim at Bill Moyers this week. But not from his show -- Pat Buchanan has been guest hosting while "Congressman Joe" nurses a bad back (Joe...
No cute headline. This will sicken you.
U.S. Navy documents, attained via the Freedom of Information Act by the ACLU, have revealed more grotesque abuses of Iraqi prisoners at the hands of our military forces, according to the AP. U.S...
The realities of Darfur, 12.14.04
This is 85-year-old Abu Hamid Omar. Not only was he burned and branded in an attack by the Janjaweed and Sudanese Government forces, but his village was burned to the ground. Abu Hamid Omar was the...
Moyers: The delusional Right
First, a reminder to set your Tivo for Friday night when Bill Moyers presents his final episode of "Now" on PBS. The last installment will focus on the right wing's subversion of the media. Required...
Congressional Dems to investigate Bush
Freshly minted Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) sounds like he's ready to take the gloves off. Congressional Democrats will begin hearings into a handful of Bush improprieties in January...
'Bush Monkeys' painter censored
REUTERS: Painter Christopher Savido poses with his painting "Bush Monkeys," a portrait of U.S. President George W. Bush, at the Animal gallery on New York City's lower east side. Curator of the show...
Buying blue
A new website has opened with the purpose of listing and profiling businesses and retailers who contribute money to Democrats: Before you finish your holiday feeding frenzy, check the list and make...
Let's play 'Decipher Rummy'
While in New Delhi, Donald Rumsfeld was asked about his exchange with Spc. Wilson, and Wilson's alleged collaboration with an imbedded reporter. This was Rummy's answer: I don't know what the facts...
McCain: 'no confidence' in Rummy
McCain and everyone else with a brain in their head. From the AP: U.S. Sen. John McCain said Monday that he has "no confidence" in Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, citing Rumsfeld's handling of...