No apology needed - BY DAVID BROOKS NEW YORK TIMES
I mean, have the people calling for her apology actually read the speeches she delivered before the war ? Have they read her remarks during the war resolution debate, when she specifically rejected a pre-emptive, unilateral attack on Saddam ? Did they read the passages in which […]

 Fuggehdaboutit!
HAVE YOU noticed? There’s something about a slush fund that just won’t die. Even after the state’s Supreme Court read the riot act and the Arkansas constitution to the Legislature, its new crew of good ol’ boys, aka The Brotherhood, is still trying to hold on to their pot of patronage, aka the General Improvement […]

 Mistakes were made … But can politicians admit them?
That brings us back to the present, with the current president and vice president especially resistant to admitting mistakes — even though many of the administration’s pre-war claims justifying the war in Iraq have been disproved. Cheney routinely proclaims Iraq an enormous success despite the contradictions in […]

Malleable - 1. capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer or by the pressure of rollers
2 a : capable of being altered or controlled by outside forces or influences  b : having a capacity for adaptive change
Maybe the Bush White House can’t conduct a war, but no one has ever impugned […]

What are “they” afraid of? This vote was about the Senate debating on the floor the Iraqi escalation. It wasn’t about pulling funding. This Senate for the past 6 years has defined that talk is cheap. Why can’t they talk about Iraq?
New York Times - The Senate on Saturday narrowly rejected an effort to force […]