Month: February 2009

At 5:30pm (eastern) the Senate is going to have a vote on cloture. Are there going to be more than three Republican votes? I doubt it. Although it’s possible that a Murkowski or a Lugar will come through, I don’t...

Why do I agree with Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy when he says we should create a new Church Committee or South Africa-style Truth and Reconciliation Commission to examine the crimes of the Bush administration? This...

Barack Obama just finished up a townhall meeting in Elkhart, Indiana, which has among the highest unemployment rates in the country. He did two things of particular note. First, he invited everybody and didn’t screen his...

It is not possible to paraphrase Uri Avnery’s writings because a condition of their republication is that they be reproduced in their entirety. But given Avnery’s sagacious views on all that is relevant to the...

Sen. Arlen Specter is the King of on-the-one-hand-on-the-other-hand bullshitting, but his decision to endorse the stimulus package in today’s Washington Post is duly noted and appreciated. As a justification, it’s...