Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business, and gives in the long run a net sum of zero.
— Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Scottish historian, sociological writer

Just last week, the Los Angeles Times poll on an initiative being floated for the November ballot that would force an amendment onto the California constitution that banned gay marriage found that 54 percent of voters were in favor of the initiative while 36 percent opposed it.
Now a new Field Poll has produced […]

A portent of things to come for Scott McLellan, via the Fox News website:
White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said Wednesday that it’s clear former Press Secretary Scott McClellan is “disgruntled” about his time working in the Bush administration.
Perino was responding to McClellan’s new book, which slams President Bush on domestic and foreign issues, such […]

The laws keep up their credit, not by being just, but because they are laws; ’tis the mystic foundation of their authority; they have no other, and it well answers their purpose. They are often made by fools; still oftener by men who, out of hatred to equality, fail in equity; but always by men, […]

McClellan’s book offers another indication that George Bush used cocaine over a period of at least 20 years
In his new tell-all book, “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs), former Bush flack Scott McClellan says the first time he caught George Bush lying was during the 2000 campaign […]

I have been harboring a fear this election cycle. I’ve been worried that Bush/Cheney would not sit idly by and allow Democrats to take the White House. There are too many bodies in shallow graves under the lawn and in the rose garden, too fresh and ready for discovery: almost anything to do with Karl […]

We were discussing this around the Pensito Review virtual water cooler over the weekend. Here’s the AP’s take:
After nearly a month of intense campaigning and multiple debates between the two candidates, Clinton managed to defeat Brown in the June 1992 California primary by a margin of 48 percent to 41 percent.
Hillary Rodham Clinton often […]

Imagine the conniptions we’d all be having if the Fox Newsers and Chris Matthews were making the same snide remarks about Barack Obama’s ethnicity.
But it is not true that all criticism of Hillary Clinton comes from sexism. Unlike the producers of the video, I haven’t found Keith Olbermann’s scathing critiques of Clinton to be […]