The Matrix

The major failures of the current administration could also well mean the demise of the Republican party for any political influence for more than decade into the future. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan predicts an independent and well financed independent presidential candidate will merge in 2008 or, if not then, by 2012. For more […]

The recent drama where the Democrats called for a closed session and the Republicans refererd to it as a “stunt” has lots of humor in it. The “stunt”, if you wish to call it that, is from the Republicans. The Democrats want serious answers as to why the Administration keeps failing. The Republicans want to […]

Do a search today on Google for the word “failure”. Notice what is the #1 entry and what is #2. At least Google doesn’t play favorites.

President Bush approval rating is below 40% and sinking fast. Let’s summarize the issues.

The Iraq war was launched on facts that were not true. Iraq had no WMD and was not involved with the terrorists. Iraq is rapidly moving to civil war. This has cost almost 2000 American lives, billions of dollar, and is […]

We cannot call Katrina “An Act of God”. The fact that a hurricane of unusual strength could hit New Orleans was well known. Simulations had shown what would happen, yet the governments did nothing to prepare for it. President Bush, on Sept 1, said no one could predict the levees would break. Yet this prediction […]

President Bush would not sign the Kyoto protocol for the United States. Apparently the reason is that it would put too much burden on the oil industry to clean up their act. Guess whose money put Bush in?
Bush’s buddy, Philip Cooney, was at one time a lobbyist for the oil industry. Bush brought […]

Judith Miller heads to jail - but is she really a martyr to the freedom of the press?
Miller has a tendency to jump the gun, and perhaps the most famous example is her reporting of the “weapons of mass destruction” articles in the The New York Times of 2002 and 2003:
http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/
These were based on […]

As Sandra Day O’Conner retires from the court, the stage is set for a political battle over who will be appointed to the Court. It would be interesting indeed if this battle is resolved in the blogs.
Evangelical leaders, such as Ted Haggard, are speaking out strongly for Bush to make a conservative choice. Recent […]

Poter Goss, director of the CIA, said recently (in a TIME interview) that he has an excellent idea of where bin Laden is, but that that part of the difficulty in capturing bin Laden was “sanctuaries in sovereign nations.”
There is no sanctuary as far as terrorists are concerned. To quote Bush (and a line […]

Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking recently on Larry King, said, “The insurgency in Iraq is in the last throes” . He also predicted that the fighting would end before the Bush administration leaves office.
Yeh - and I’ve got a bridge I’d like to sell him. Besides, 2008 is way too long to wait […]