At his press conference today to build support for "harsh" treatment of detainees and fiddling with the Geneva Convention, our fearless leader said the following:

I don't believe the Democrats are going to take over, because our record on the economy is strong. If the American people would take a step back and realize how effective our policies have been, given the circumstances, they will continue to embrace our philosophy of government. We've overcome recession, attacks, hurricanes, scandals, and the economy is growing -- 4.7 percent unemployment rate. It's been a strong economy.

Before Sept. 11, 2001 had even passed into history, we faced a major choice.  How to treat the perpetrators of that day's deeds?  You all know which option the president chose.

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I'm not blaming the Democrats for 9-11 alone. I'm blaming them also for the Cole bombing, for the embassy bombings, for 20 years of attacks that have not been stopped. It is indisputable that it is because of regulations that came post-Watergate when Congress was made up of two parties: Democrats and radical Democrats.

At least one retired U.S. General has long ago called our adventure in Iraq a disaster. Now Kofi Annan says that Middle Eastern leaders generally consider it a disaster, and one which is destabilizing the region:

In his column last week titled Whining Over Discontent, Paul Krugman noted the desperate effort by conservatives to:

..find some number, any number, to support claims that increasing inequality is just a matter of a rising payoff to education and skill...More broadly, right-wing commentators would like you to believe that the economy's winners are a large group, like college graduates or people with agreeable personalities. But the winners' circle is actually very small.

Raw Story has acquired an "Administration approved, unclassified talking points" memo sent out from Alonzo Robertson, of NSA's General Counsel's Office, to Pat Roberts, Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, for distribution to the members of the committee.

Yes, our self-proclaimed "party of ideas" has just come up with two more good ones.

Stricter requirements for voter ID has been a hot Republican topic this season, and some restrictive laws have been passed.

But there was yet another page to the presidential script that wasn't presented, and should have been. On that one, the president would have seized the opportunity to announce key changes in his leadership team. He would have praised Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the skies and then announced Rumsfeld's resignation, to allow new thinking and new energy to address America's troubled involvement in post-war Iraq.

He would have conceded that, in contrast to the things that have gone well in America's post-9/11 response, American military strategy in Iraq has been a muddled mess.

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