It's been a big part of conservative dogma to put all blame for failing to prevent 9/11 on Bill Clinton. Slick Willy was asleep at the wheel for 8 years, they cry! This hit its peak last September when Fox News' Chris Wallace sandbagged Clinton on the subject during a candid interview. Personally, I think trying to find blame for those attacks ( Read more... )

Nearly half of the US public wants President George W. Bush to face impeachment, and even more favor that fate for Vice President Dick Cheney, according to a poll out Friday ( Read more... )

When news began breaking that one or more doctors may have been among the conspirators in the recent foiled terror plots in the U.K., I thought cynically to myself... "How long before conservatives try and use this to smear universal health care ( Read more... )

Pardoning Libby, oh, I'm sorry, commuting Libby, has been the break that I've been hoping for. Nothing is beyond the pale with these people, and never has been, but the sheer brassy chutzpah of today's poodle-fuck has left me breathless. Breathless, yet vaguely exhilarated ( Read more... )

Well it looks all the crazy right-wingers (the National Review writers have been particularly insane for weeks) got to their Senators between Tuesday and today, because the temporarily-resurrected immigration bill has again been murdered, maybe for good this time-

The Senate drove a stake Thursday through President Bush's plan to legalize millions ( Read more... )

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Michael Bloomberg will probably run for president as an independent. He knows he's too liberal--more so than former NYC Mayor Guiliani--to get the nomination of the Republican Party. And he knows that he couldn't suddenly again be part of the Democratic Party and run for the White House. When he ran for mayor of NYC in 2001, he became a Republican ( Read more... )

A Wall Street Journal/NBC survey finds that "By 52% to 31%, Americans say they want Democrats to win the presidency next year... Americans give the Republican Party their most negative assessment in the two-decade history of the Journal/NBC survey, and by 49% to 36% they say the Democratic Party more closely shares their values and positions on the

Conservatism is the political ideology that claims we need to preserve("conserve") traditional values within culture and society at large. For many people, especially among the elderly, it has become popular to "resist" the problems with modern society, by calling themselves conservatives. The ideology can therefore in many ways be seen as a ( Read more... )

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