Liberal Talk Radio

I was watching a West Wing rerun the other day. It was from about 3 years ago, just after 9/11. The epsiode was “100,000 Airplanes,” and it was about the State of the Union. On the TV, in the background, you hear excerpt’s from President Bartlet’s speech: It may be said that in the last [...]

My post on Katie Couric above got me thinking that maybe the Democrats are having some success in pushing back Bush on SS. Still, can anyone tell me what the Democratic position is on SS? All I can find is this paragraph from the 2004 party platform (PDF), Page 26: We are absolutely committed to [...]

I caught a segment on Social Security on the TODAY show this morning. I immediately stopped eating breakfast and turned up the volume, because I know that when Katie speaks, people listen. More people watch the TODAY Show, I’m sure, than read every newspaper in America put together. So needless to say I was curious [...]

Say what you want about Rumsfeld, the man has the whole bureaucrat routine down. He so good at working congress, working the president, working the generals. The man knows how to get what he wants, and more importantly, he knows how to survive. read here for more.

I just read this artilce by Mark Leon Goldberg in The American Prospect and it touched off a few thoughts in my mind. For a while, I’d been annoyed that Democrats always have to defend whatever Michael Moore says while Republicans get to isolate themselves from their own wingnuts. To me, this is more proof [...]

In attempt to “demystify” the Jeff Gannon situation, Tim Graham at the National Review attempts to show us examples of White House reporters lobbing softballs at Bill Clinton. I see two problems here: 1. If Graham is attempting to show that the media went easy on Clinton during Monica, I have one question: What planet [...]

One question has been nagging at me since the beginning of this whole Social Security charade. What’s the president really angling for? What’s his motivation, and what the f**k is he doing?? I’ve watched enough episodes of The West Wing to know that the president shores up support from congress for any initiative LONG before [...]

Looks like Judith Miller will have to testify. It seems pretty obvious that there’s no constitutional right to a reporter protecting her sources. Yet, at the same time, I sympathize with this concern: Lawyers for media organizations say the law on protecting reporters from subpoenas in criminal matters is very weak, and they had expected [...]

Dick Cheney finally gets what he’s always wanted — a mole inside State! That’ll teach those realists over at Foggy Bottom to hedge their bets next time around!!

2008, that is. John Edwards goes on the UNC-Chapel Hill payroll this week as the part-time head of the Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity. But he is keeping one eye peeled on the 2008 presidential race. Well, that’s a start. At least he’ll be the head of something. Gotta get some exec credentials if [...]