“I foresee an inexorable decline in the polls as Americans discover to their horror that, given the right to choose their leaders, Iraqis will choose the same sort of fundamentalist madmen that their neighbors in Iran tend to choose …
“Worse, this is likely to come at a time when the special prosecutor in the [...]

Message: I Don’t Care
Left: President Bush plays a guitar presented to him by Country singer Mark Wills, right, backstage after the president gave a speech in San Diego.
Right: Meanwhile, flood waters are rising in the city of New Orleans, where thousands of people are homeless. Fires are burning throughout the city, [...]

Floridians are getting worried about the economy, according to the Jacksonville Business Journal:
Florida’s consumer confidence took another hit in August, dropping three points to 92, as consumers worried about rising fuel costs.
The two components that measure perceptions of the national economy each fell five points — perceptions of economic conditions over the next year and [...]

“Most of that growth in the economy over the last couple of years has gone to higher income people and has taken the form of capital income — interest, rents, dividends.”
For the fourth year in a row more Americans slipped into poverty during 2004, according to a new Census Bureau report.
AP:
The nation’s poverty rate rose [...]

More than half want Bush to meet with Cindy: Slightly more than half of the country – 52 percent – says President Bush should meet with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a soldier killed last year in Iraq, who is leading a protest against the war outside Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Tex., according to [...]

Seeking to mend the rift in U.S.-Venezuelan relations widened last week by God-knob Pat Robertson’s issuance of a fatwa against Venez Prez Hugo Chavez, the not-visibly-employed Rev. Jesse Jackson went to Caracas, according to the Associated Press.
Initially, Chavez was reluctant to meet with Jackson, suspecting he was a rap star come to carry out, [...]

Are we to believe that the president cannot decide whether the loss of dozens of lives, thousands of homes and multiple millions of dollars in infrastructure caused by the hurricane should be classified an “emergency?”
Just heard a report on MSNBC that President Bush is cannot make up his mind whether to tap the 700 million [...]

“As long as Mr. Bush’s fantasies, self-delusions, false optimism and surrealistic take on the world are passed along with little or no correction by the mainstream media, a passable base of public support for the war can remain and Americans will continue dying in a hopeless cause. It’s that fact behind the missing analysis that [...]

New West writer Courtney Lowery interviewed Jon Tester, a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, at his farm near Big Sandy, Montana. Her report is worth a read because when Democrats retake the Congress it will undoubtedly be a result of electing candidates like Tester:
The Tester campaign should enjoy quite the kick-off this week, courtesy [...]

San Diego is a longtime Republican bastion that is reeling from a series of scandals for which a GOP mayor was booted out in mid-term, two GOP city councilmembers are in jail and a GOP US Congressman is facing federal indictments.
Last night, protesters turned out for a candlelight vigil in San Diego near the [...]