Washington's absolute and stunning obliviousness to the past, its lack of curiosity about the present, what Abbas Hilmi, in reference to the British occupation of Egypt eloquently described as "this dark abyss of incomprehension," is breathtaking. Policy is not made in a vacuum so much as in a stiff-necked straightjacket undermined by the administration's own shortcomings.

Imagine that. Seems the Chimpy Regime has no contingency plan in place if the Dems sweep the House...

Cliff Kincaid, God's gift to mental health professionals and the head of Accuracy in Media, has long been short on logic and/or basic honesty.  He's reached a new high in low thinking however, in a rambling column that is too vague to allow for certainty, but which seems to say that the gay Republicans (Foley, Kolbe, who knows who else) are really "closeted Democrats."

It's now been widely reported that David Kuo, formerly high up in the White House Office of Faith Based Initiatives, has written a book (to be published Monday) in which he accuses Rove and other Repub chieftains of calling the figures of the religious right "nuts" and other non-complimentary terms.

I don't say that the difficulties we are experiencing round the world are caused by our presence in Iraq, but undoubtedly our presence in Iraq exacerbates them.  I think history will show that the planning for what happened after the initial successful war fighting phase was poor, probably based more on optimism than sound planning.

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?

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