Posts Tagged ‘” Bush’

Rarely seen footage from summer of 2001:   At a political values forum, Congressional representative [ name not given] called then President Bush, not a year into his new term in office, an “enemy of humanity.”
Conservatives went nuts.
Actually, we made that up.  What we are not making up, at least, reportedly, is this real news:
A Republican [...]

In an earlier column, we highlighted the perspective on the tea baggers from those seeing it from the top of their perch, as this otherwise extremely contorted article points out:
Tea Party attendees and health care town-hall protesters share the common belief that the extravagant spending of President Obama and the Democratic Party will eventually lead more people [...]

For years, Senator John McCain earned the reputation, as a “straight talker.” Perhaps deservedly, although he effectively courted the media perhaps more consistently and effectively than almost any other politician around.  
His campaign for President in 2008 was based in large part upon this “straight talk” theme. Given the radical and contradictory shifts of McCain, up [...]