Few in national politics more richly deserve a righteous smackdown than former Vice President Dick Cheney — and Lawrence Wilkerson proves he’s up to the job with his guest post for the Washington Note. A Republican, retired Army colonel and longtime aide of Colin Powell, Wilkerson keeps snark to a minimum, making his condemnation of [...]
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Nonsense aside, Brooks is right about Palin
We once had a car radio that got terrific reception and sounded great, except when it went staticky and then cut out, going silent for awhile. That radio came to mind as we read David Brooks’ column, “Why Experience Matters,” today, only what went staticky and cut out was making sense, not audio.
Radical-right base all about perversity, spite
Bush and Cheney are a sharp stick in our eye, and that’s what really counts with their political base.
Cheney aide’s Georgia visit innocent? Ha!
Do you wonder if maybe the Bush White House hoped to instigate a little “You better be scared” August surprise, the better to distract from the Democrats’ convention and maybe bolster warhawk John McCain’s presidential aspirations? Oh no, no, no, of course not, according to a Los Angeles Times blog item, “Why was Cheney’s guy in Georgia before the war?”
