Courtesy of Welcome to Pottersville
BACK in those heady days of late summer 2002, Andrew Card, then the president’s chief of staff, told The New York Times why the much-anticipated push for war in Iraq hadn’t yet arrived. “You don’t introduce new products in August,” he said, sounding like the mouthpiece for the Big Three […]

Bash an immigrant time!  
The cost of immigration to Arkansas is “far beyond what any of us imagined. The barn door must be closed before everything’s gone.” Okay, we’ll accept that immigrantsthose here legally, those not and those in-between—cost Arkansas some money. And the feds have done a sorry job of coming to grips with the […]

 Huck must review record
This one, for instance: The Iowa papers are full of claims by Huckabee that he never raised motor fuel taxes in Arkansas. “Eighty percent of the people of my state voted to do it,” he was quoted in one newspaper as saying last week. A letter to all the television station managers […]

I don’t know what to say here about David Broder’s (Washington Post) take on Mike Huckabee…except he don’t know the Mike we know.
The Next Huckabee Surprise?
He mixes this with a set of social-issue positions strong enough to attract the kind of religious-right support he has in Iowa but leavened with enough tolerant-sounding messages to appeal […]

 The Rove Goes Forever
The image I see of Karl Rove as he leaves Washington is of a man carrying a gas can and a box of matches as the city burns behind him and yet no one has thought to blame him for the great blaze sundering our democracy. In his parting news conference with […]