In which the author has a few things to say about the Bush Administration. NO! I am not hinting at impeachment. There are no “high crimes” here. Just a really bad presidency. In fact, I consider impeachment talk counterproductive and slightly nutso.
Yesterday, Mary Ann Akers reported that the Edwards campaign was trolling those who wish Elizabeth well for campaign donations. The campaign’s first response was defensive: “Nobody gets an e-mail from us without explicitly agreeing to receive e-mails.” Today, the campaign has revamped the web form and will no longer be automatically soliciting from well-wishers (though [...]
Not really. But if Robin Wright is right in asserting that the Iranians were trying to make the point that they prefer negotiation to confrontation, then that would be excellent news, indeed…if we lived in a world where the U.S. government preferred negotiation to confrontation. Too bad we don’t. At the very least, the happy [...]
Does anyone else find it slightly worrisome that the Attorney General is spending almost three weeks to prepare to give testimony that is essentially a “do-over” from his first round? It reminds me of the practical reason to avoid lying: it’s easier to keep track of the truth. And how many different ways are there [...]
It’s a standard grim joke in the Cox-Lehmann household to theorize about the upsides of a Giuliani presidency: guns would be illegal, there’d be Dupont Circle-type drag races on the White House lawn, gay marriages in the National Cathedral in the Oval Office*, and, of course, free abortions for everyone. And, what do you know, [...]
