Democratic Conversation

Vice President Dick Cheney now thinks he’s part of the Congress, after seven years wagging his (and others’) tail as semi-head of the executive branch. One must admit, he has conviction. Now, as a comic would introduce, all we need do is get a prosecutor to try him for his crimes. Joking aside, and America […]

George W. Bush has placed a help wanted ad: he needs a “czar” to run both of his failed wars: Afghanistan’s just war that he neglected and now is in nearly as chaotic a situation as before the Taliban took power in 1996; and the Iraqi Murder Expedition. While Mr. Bush continues to put on […]

When will so many Americans finally educate themselves? This is not an unreasonable question. American society now has a large segment of the population (though nowhere near a majority) that openly agrees with George W. Bush’s assertion that he will do whatever is necessary to “win in Iraq,” regardless “what Congress has decided.” Such language […]

Saddam Hussein is about to be executed. It’s 2:37 a.m. in France, where I live, Saturday December 30th, and I have CNN International giving me up-to-the-minute info on his walk to the gallows. Naturally, they do not have a camera in the execution chamber, but this does not leave CNN without the opportunity to affect […]

Nancy Pelosi has extended an olive branch to George W. Bush. My only question is, Why? Here is a chief executive who just two years ago gloated to half the nation after the 2004 election that he “had political capital” and was going to use it. He did use it, with as much besmirching tactics […]