When David Safavian was first charged with criminal activity, a lot of right wing propagandists tried to depict the situation as blood thirsty liberals trying to hunt down an innocent man for political purposes, simply because of his association with Abramoff.

Have I done something to offend the White House? I am always getting the shaft...they came to Ft. Pierce.  A few weeks ago and said I was not allowed to attend. yet Joe Negron is there...tomorrow Potus is in Martin County and I am told I am not allowed to there either.

[Why the persona non grata status you might wonder if you were a suspicious person]

Once again President Bush faced the cameras and the nation in a televised press conference.  Once again he addressed Iraq.  Once again the press inquired about Iraq.  Once again the president offered his same old song.

I awoke on Nov. 3, 2004, the day after the re-election of George W. Bush, with something like a hangover - and I hadn't been drinking. I had to decide at that point whether to retreat into my very comfortable life as a tenured professor or to try to do something to change this country's ruinous course. What rankled me most, even more than the outcome of the election itself, was the widespread assumption on the part of my fellow evangelicals that it was something akin to a sin to vote for anyone other than the incumbent, a man whose policies, in my judgment and despite his protestations of faith, are morally bankrupt.

You know the pictures of Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam and smiling.  Do you remember the revelation in 2003 by a British newspaper that Don Rumsfeld sat on the board of a corporation that sold light water nuclear reactors to North Korea?

So Grover Norquist's grubby little group dedicated to the death of all taxes, "Americans for Tax Reform" (ATR) has given Montana Senator Conrad Burns one if its "Hero of the Taxpayer" awards.

Republicans are awaiting the Nov. 7 election with the sense of dread felt by Gulf Coast inhabitants as a hurricane makes landfall: They know a wave is coming and pray that the levees hold.

Living on a fixed income is bad enough.  What do you do when you're on a fixed income and have a ton of debt?  It looks like we may be about to find out.

Finally when I let go, and I let God in, it was good.

[No word on how God felt about being inside Noe]

If you were an Ohio Republican, would you: (a) scream and run frantically from the state, (b) seriously consider switching to another state and/or party, or (c) deny that you had ever lived in Ohio or been a Republican?

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