At a press conference today, among other topics, Bush touched on the Congressional Democrats' attempt for the$35 billion increase in State Children's Health Insurance Program, SCHIP:

The $35 billion increase for the State Children's Health Insurance Program, called SCHIP, would bring total spending to about $60 billion, or twice the level sought ( Read more... )

These primetime speeches Bush gives on Iraq are becoming predictable. It was his eighth on Iraq War. I would have preferred he face the media rather than have a one-sided monologue. At least media, with its problems, shortcoming, and fears, would have forced him to answer some tough questions. Instead, we get a monotonous, unchecked, fantasy- ( Read more... )

Six Years Ago today, America had had its second Pearl Harbor. We were brutally attacked by people with total disregard of human life, including their own. A lot of blood of many innocent people was spilt in name of a bloody ideology ( Read more... )

So, Gonzales has finally resignedHis successor most likely to be Michael Chertoff, of the Whitewater fame. It is interesting, how Republicans continue to complain of partisan attacks from Democrats, while Chertoff virtually represents the partisan attacks that these same Repuglicans subjected President Clinton to. That is cronyism at its worst ( Read more... )

Today, Bush continued to defend his ever more unpopular policy of Surge in Iraq. He spoke in Cleveland today.

"We just started," Bush told a business group in Cleveland. He asked Congress to wait for a report due in September from Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq, about the results of the troop increase ( Read more... )

“I didn’t vote for him,” an American once said, “But he’s my president, and I hope he does a good job ( Read more... )

Just a few hours ago the Iraq and Afghanistan funding bill has passed in the US House of Representatives by a 218-208 vote ( Read more... )

I know, by now so many of us have seen the "performance" (if we can call it such) of Dubya's Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in front of the Congressional panel. I have never seen such a despairing, shameful, clueless, and dishonest effort.

And, despite all that, Bush comes out with the strongest statement of support for AG.

"This is an ( Read more... )

I was watching the first fifteen minutes of today's Scarborough show. I do realize, that Joe Scarborough is to represent a different viewpoint, which contrasts, somewhat drastically, with a viewpoint of the show just before it on MSNBC, the Countdown with Keith Olberman. And I know that Joe is trying really hard to keep Keith audience from tuning ( Read more... )

A huge development in US Senate last night ( Read more... )