It was almost inevitable that a combination of $4-a-gallon gas, public anxiety and politicians eager to win votes or repair legacies would produce political pandering on an epic scale. So it has, the latest instance being President Bush's decision to ask Congress to end the federal ban on offshore oil and gas drilling along much of America's continental shelf. ...more

June 20, 2008

In a recent interview with the Times of London, President Bush revived a regret that he had expressed before, that he sometimes during the Iraq war resorted to gung-ho language which, he believes, left an impression that he relished the war. That impression, Bush has suggested, was false. ...more

June 16, 2008

One of the advantages of senior citizenship is that I've heard it all before - for at least the last 65 years. ...more

June 14, 2008

One of the advantages of senior citizenship is that I've heard it all before..... ...more

June 14, 2008

On Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney said, "So we had Cheneys on both sides of the family - and we don't even live in West Virginia." His gratuitous insult raises again the question: What's the most scorned minority in America? ...more

June 6, 2008

It should not go unnoticed that the attacks of the president and his staff on Scott McClellan have been largely restricted to laments about his lack of loyalty, rather than challenging the truth of his charges that Bush and company had planned the invasion of Iraq long before 9-11. The reason is quite simple. McClellan's charge is correct, right on the money. Long before the attack on the twin towers, Bush and company had been working on what they called "regime change" in Iraq, forming an organization called "The Project for the New American Century" (PNAC) in 1997. Among the organizers were Dick Cheney, Lewis Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton and Richard Perle. All were given high offices with the election of George W. Bush in 2000. ...more

June 5, 2008

Bill Fanning says November election will bring a "massive moral and political overhaul." ...more

June 4, 2008

President Bush on Monday presented the nation's highest military award to a 19-year-old soldier who died saving the lives of four comrades in Iraq by jumping on a grenade tossed into their military vehicle. ...more

June 3, 2008

Despite his coy avoidance of the topic, Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida is acting like he'd love to be vice president of the United States. ...more

June 3, 2008

Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan writes in a new memoir that the Iraq war was sold to the American people with a sophisticated "political propaganda campaign" led by President Bush and aimed at "manipulating sources of public opinion" and "downplaying the major reason for going to war." ...more

May 28, 2008