The news media are doing their quadrennial infuriating thing—insisting on making every presidential contest into a two-man race. The only difference this year is that with Hillary Clinton running, they’re trying to make the Dem side a two-person race. This they’ve been trying to do for a year, months before a single vote was cast.

It wd have been too much to hope that Iowa would stop them, or slow them down, and I had no such hope. Pundits, and the political reporters apparently forbidden by their producers and editors to contradict the pundits with too effective an insistence on ...   more »

Former Senator and presidential candidate George McGovern says today, “As we enter the eighth year of the Bush-Cheney administration, I have belatedly and painfully concluded that the only honorable course for me is to urge the impeachment of the president and the vice president.”

McGovern’s statement appears in today’s Washington Post Outlook section. Read on:

“After the 1972 presidential election, I stood clear of calls to impeach President Richard M. Nixon for his misconduct during the campaign. I thought that my joining the impeachment effort would be seen as an expression of personal vengeance toward the president who had defeated ...   more »

In October of 2002, the White House wins a major political victory in the drive to war. Tragically, Congress caves in to political pressure and passes the ‘war resolution’ used by Bush and Cheney as authorization to do anything they want with regard to Iraq. Behind the scenes, the bogus intel of a purported Iraq-Niger uranium deal goes through channels.
October 9-12, 2002:

 

Oct. 9, 2002 – Shortly following Bush’s Cincinnati speech and the repeated back-and-forth between the White House and the CIA over Niger uranium, the U.S. Embassy in Rome receives copies of forged documents from ...   more »