I think I’ve determined why the Bush administration’s domestic policies keep failing — they’re bad at math. At a minimum, that would shed some light on how Bush’s Medicare scheme continues to get worse all the time. President Bush promised Congress that his Medicare prescription drug benefit would cost no more than $400 billion over […]
The most over-the-top effort to scare voters I’ve ever heard came at the Christian Coalition’s national conference in 2000. Dede Robertson, Pat’s wife, wanted her sympathetic audience to believe that an Al Gore presidency would literally destroy civilization. In the space of just 10 minutes Robertson’s wife, who has just recently been named chair of […]
Bush may be running around the country telling voters how great conditions are in Iraq, but members of Congress, to their credit, aren’t buying it. Even the Republicans. Let’s see, first there was Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.). “No, I don’t think we’re winning,” Senator Hagel of Nebraska said on the CBS News program “Face the […]
The story started innocently enough. In February, Tim Russert asked the president if he would release his full military record to settle the controversy over whether he fulfilled his obligations to the National Guard. Bush said, “Yes, absolutely. We did so in 2000, by the way.” The second sentence was a transparent falsehood, and as […]
It’s as if all the Bush campaign complaints and delays over the debate schedule were a smoke screen all along. Oh wait; they were. Just hours before the written-in-stone deadline, it now appears that Bush has agreed to the three debate locations, formats, and dates that have been on the table all along. The campaigns […]