Fool factor: The latest Reuters/Zogby poll is just full of interesting nuggets:
Fifty-eight percent of the respondents gave [President Bush] negative marks in the survey, which included 1,000 likely voters nationwide. The survey, conducted Sept. 22-25, 2006, carries a margin of error of +/- 3.2 percentage points.
Bush has rebounded from a low of 31 percent job [...]

“Whoops, did Chavez say Bush was like the devil? Well, that’s kind of insulting. Let me just clarify that, because I wouldn’t want the devil’s feelings to be hurt.”*
“Calling Bush the devil is offending the devil”
“Calling Bush the devil is offending the devil,” Correa said. He said that “the devil is evil, but intelligent.”
“I believe [...]

And it’s all borrowed money! Right. Bush broke it — your grandkids will be paying for it:
A new congressional analysis shows the Iraq war is now costing taxpayers almost $2 billion a week — nearly twice as much as in the first year of the conflict three years ago and 20 percent more than last [...]

Maybe, maybe not: Political observers are drawing parallels between Iran’s approach to developing nuclear capabilities and the way Israel developed its own nuclear program — in secrecy that breeds uncertainty.
In developing its nuclear program Iran is using strategies that allowed its enemy Israel to assemble the Middle East’s only atomic arsenal without admitting it [...]

It is painful to look at your father and realize the old man should not be allowed to manage his own money anymore. This is the discovery the country has made about the party in power. They are inept. The checkbook needs to be taken away. They will rant, they will [...]

It’s coalition time again: A new Reuters/Zogby poll released today finds us Americans viewing Iran about the same as we viewed Iraq before Bushco invaded — favoring a multilateral, international, diplomatic approach.
A majority of Americans want the United States to increase diplomatic efforts over Iran’s nuclear ambitions, while 70 percent oppose the use of [...]

On C-SPAN just now, the Senate just voted down an amendment to the president’s torture bill that would prevent Pres. Bush from denying U.S. their constitutional rights and incarcerating them indefinitely, without charges.

Friends like these:The predominantly Shiite government of Iraq, which we helped get elected, is protecting Shiite death squads who are slaughtering Sunnis:
Senior U.S. military officials have stepped up complaints that Iraq’s Shiite-led government is thwarting efforts to go after Shiite death squads blamed in the execution-style killings of Sunni Arabs in neighborhoods across this capital.
Although [...]

Good news in the Rockies:
Less than two months before the election, Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter (D) has jumped even further ahead in Colorado’s gubernatorial race. He now leads Republican Representative Bob Beauprez 50 percent to 34 percent. Ten percent (10 percent) are undecided.
The race was most competitive early in the year, when Ritter tended [...]

Every patriotic American ought to find this to be unacceptable:
Buried in the complex Senate compromise on detainee treatment is a real shocker, reaching far beyond the legal struggles about foreign terrorist suspects in the Guantanamo Bay fortress. The compromise legislation, which is racing toward the White House, authorizes the president to seize American citizens as [...]