The Medicare Fiasco

8:11 pm EST November 29th, 2005 | Politics | 1 Comment

I don’t write much about things like Medicare here, but I can say this – the new drug benefit is something only the pharmaceutical lobby could love. I saw my grandmother over the Thanksgiving holiday, and we discussed it and the paradox of choice. Let’s just say that it’s a good thing she has three daughters and three grandkids to help her decipher this stuff.

Death Penalty & Warner

8:11 pm EST November 29th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 31 Comments

As someone who is a strong supporter of the death penalty, I agree with this decision made by Gov. Warner

In a statement issued Tuesday evening, Warner said the destruction by an Arlington clerk of DNA evidence that might have cleared Lovitt on appeal convinced him that Lovitt should spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole, rather than be executed. Lovitt would have been the 1,000th person executed in the United States since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.

I think if you support the death penalty, you should also be in favor of making executions as iron-clad as possible. This case, from what I’ve read, didn’t fit that mold.

Topic: Crime

Get Your Scorecard!

7:11 pm EST November 29th, 2005 | Republicans | 5 Comments

The Republican culture of corruption, revealed state by state… I wonder how long until Maryland’s own Bob Ehrlich returns the scam money he’s received from crooked Jack Abramoff?

The Merge Continues

6:11 pm EST November 29th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 6 Comments

Bill O’Reilly continues to morph into Joe McCarthy, with his lists and everything. I’m just upset I’m not on it.

Topic: Conservative

Joe Lieberman, An Embarrassment To His Party & His Country

6:11 pm EST November 29th, 2005 | Uncategorized | 4 Comments

Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware

I and some other journalists had lunch with Senator Joe Lieberman the other day and we listened to him talking about Iraq. Either Senator Lieberman is so divorced from reality that he’s completely lost the plot or he knows he’s spinning a line. Because one of my colleagues turned to me in the middle of this lunch and said he’s not talking about any country I’ve ever been to and yet he was talking about Iraq, the very country where we were sitting.

>> Note to Lieberman: The Iraqis Want A Timetable

Topic: Useful "Liberals"

The Bubble

1:11 pm EST November 29th, 2005 | News | 4 Comments

When you’re a lame duck president, it falls to your handlers to manage your reality for you.

What does it say about the president of the United States that he won’t go anywhere near ordinary citizens any more? And that he’ll only speak to captive audiences?

President Bush’s safety zone these days doesn’t appear to extend very far beyond military bases, other federal installations and Republican fundraisers.

Topic: George W. Bush

Cons Keep Going Lower

1:11 am EST November 29th, 2005 | Politics | 43 Comments

Michael Rubin, at the right-wing “think tank” American Enterprise Institute accuses Rep. John Murtha of killing American soldiers. I’m serious.

Even just talking about withdrawal emboldens the enemy, argues Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think-tank. “Murtha’s comments have gotten Americans killed,” he says, “They’ve convinced the terrorists they are on the right track.”

What is wrong with these people? They can make excuse after excuse for how Bush led us into war and royally screwed up the post-invasion – decisions that have directly led to the deaths of thousands of Americans and Iraqis – but when a Democrat rocks the boat, he’s accused of murder. Deranged.

Rubin’s email is mrubin@aei.org.

MORE: David Horowitz calls Sen. John Kerry and Sen. Ted Kennedy traitors and apparently calls for their hanging.

Pro-Tax Republicans

1:11 am EST November 29th, 2005 | Politics | 3 Comments

Cons in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Utah are proposing taxes… on porn. The mind boggles at the stupidity.

RELATED: The longlisted passages for the Bad Sex in Fiction award (somebody needs to ask John Updike to explain an “M of receptivity” with a straight face)

Randy Cunningham Is A Crook

12:11 am EST November 29th, 2005 | Politics | 11 Comments

I don’t understand the plaudits Cunningham is receiving from certain quarters about his resignation letter today. He resigned because the bastard got busted! The man was bribed like a hooker — to authorize the purchase of material for our armed forces. If he hadn’t been caught with this hand in the cookie jar, he’d be laughing it up. He’s a common criminal who abused the public trust and he should be scorned. No speech filled with phony contritition can change that.

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