By last fall, Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Bud Shaw had just about seen enough. He’d been watching the same leader closely for four years, hearing unfulfilled promises and hoping in vain for improvements that never came. It was time for a change. Shaw admitted that he had seen some flashes of brilliance from this man […]
Posted by Morbo It’s a sad fact of life that much of the world lives under the iron fists of cruel dictators. In the wake of the recent Iraqi elections, many are celebrating the return of democracy to that country. That’s nice. Morbo hates to be a spoilsport, but I feel compelled to point out […]
Posted by Morbo Looking for somewhere cheap and entertaining to go to this weekend? Then visit the Bizarro Universe of TV preacher Pat Robertson and former House of Representatives speaker New Gingrich. It’s only a mouse click away. Though brief, this interview has a lot going for it. Listening to Gingrich outline his plan for […]
For better or worse, media narratives have a huge role in influencing the outcome of political debates. When news reports talk about one side being “on the offensive” and “building support,” it affects public opinion, influences lawmakers, and casts that side’s goal in a more positive light. When a side is “reeling” and “on the […]
Here are two sentences that capture so much about the Bush administration, including the way it thinks, governs, treats unwelcome news, considers the public’s safety, and respects science, to name a few. The Environmental Protection Agency ignored scientific evidence and agency protocols in order to set limits on mercury pollution that would line up with […]
Bush said we’d have 125,000 by the end of December, which was absurd. Condi Rice argues 120,000 are now trained, equipped, and ready to provide security, while Joe Biden says there’s no more than 14,000. Yesterday, two top Pentagon officials tried to settle the matter of exactly how many Iraqis are serving in the country’s […]
Stop me if you’ve heard this one… Dick Cheney’s Halliburton gets a lucrative contract, breaks the rules, but gets paid anyway. Yep, it’s happened again. In a departure from normal policy, the Army said yesterday it will not withhold future payments to Halliburton Co., despite audit reports last summer that said the giant logistical contractor […]
I’m not so coldhearted as to deny the beauty of the embrace between Janet Norwood and Safia Taleb al-Suhail at the State of the Union the other night. It was an emotional moment; no doubt about it. That said, there are a few things about Safia Taleb al-Suhail that Bush left out of his speech […]
Bush mentioned early on in the State of the Union that immigration reform will be a high priority for his domestic agenda. “America’s immigration system is also outdated — unsuited to the needs of our economy and to the values of our country…. It is time for an immigration policy that permits temporary guest workers […]
Just when it seemed like the Bush administration’s support for abstinence-only “education” couldn’t look any worse, we learn of yet another embarrassment. A couple of months ago, reports surfaced that federally-funded abstinence programs offer wildly incorrect information to students, while advancing a neo-puritan approach to gender roles. Making matters worse, we learned this week that […]