We have a president who has trouble speaking in full, grammatical sentences, and a vice-president who has one of the strangest speaking patterns I've ever heard.  Here's the Vice-prez on Joe Lieberman's primary defeat (emphasis added):

Why strangely, you ask?  Because Bush is the one who raised the question himself, noting in his radio speech today that some had recently suggested that very thing.  But then he didn't deny it, unless I'm really missing something.

Now what do you suppose would make a Republican Congresswoman suddenly join "the growing chorus of those who believe Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should be out of a job?"

Couldn't be the new phenomenon known as the Joe Lieberman effect, could it?

Regret can be such a horrible thing, especially when experienced by such a large swath of the population.

The internal congressional investigation of Duke Cunningham's little side business of bribery and corruption is complete, and has resulted in an unclassified 20-page report. Yet, according to a memo from Democratic Rep. Jane Harman of California to her colleagues, Republicans have backed out of an agreement to subpoena Cunningham and have not released the report.

It's beginning to look like Iraq will eventually display every possible permutation of sectarian violence.  The latest is this story about a Shiite attack on a Kurdish political party building.

Rick Santorum certainly can't claim to be the most honest candidate around.

Given the apoplexy that right wingers display when the subject of estate taxes come up, I thought you might want a point of comparison when thinking about the U.S. tax which kicks in on estates over $2 million (with other exemptions available, and a zillion ways to dodge some or all of the tax).

Here's something that will really surprise WTW readers: (1) BP had every reason in the world to know that their damn pipeline was about to rust to pieces, (2) BP's cost cutting contributed to the problem, and (3) they didn't care because that pipeline wasn't subject to regulation.

WTW has covered the dire condition of private pension funds both here and in the United Kingdom, as well as the likelihood that many American families are going to be left high and dry (at the mercy of their Social Security benefit).  Now "they" are working on public employee pensions, too.

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