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Current Articles --
Final Recount (May 21, 2001) The last couple of weeks have offered plenty of juicy and interesting targets, from the obvious, such as Bush's give-the-store-away energy plan - which responds to neither of the possibly-manufactured crises that supposedly justify it - to the just-released General Accounting Office report which showed that there was no White House vandalism by departing Clinton staffers ...
A Sorry Episode (April 15, 2001) All's well that ends well, and everything in the China contratemps ended fairly well. Except for the Chinese pilot, who learned a lesson in basic airmanship - when two planes bump, it is bad for both, but especially for the much smaller one. Alas, he learned this too late to benefit from it. We can all benefit, however, from what we learned about George W. Bush, and particularly about how he is regarded ...
The Disconnect (February 4, 2001) The Beltway is smitten with GW Bush. Valentine's Day started this year on January 20, at least so far as the people who go to Sally Quinn's cocktail parties are concerned ...
Ayatollah General (January 15, 2001) Thanks to Bush's cabinet nominations, we now know what "compassionate conservatism" means: Compassion for the well-connected, particularly corporate friends of the Bush family; conservatism for the rest of us ...
Honeymoon in Hell (December 15, 2000) The media is never embarrassed to be predictable, so of course they have entered their can't-we-all-get-along stage ...
Indecision 2000 Archive (finalized December 15, 2000) More than you want to know about Endless Election Day ...
Fuzzy Vote Count (November 9, 2000) Something smells in Florida, and not like orange blossoms ...
Mapstakes 2000 (November 2, 2000) For what it's worth, here is my look at electoral-vote picture as of now, five days before the election ...
To the Wire (October 28, 2000) First, the bad news: as I write this, Bush is probably about 3 or 4 points ahead ...
No Crash (October 6, 2000) The first presidential debate was, alas, a disappointment. It failed to deliver what all political junkies save the most fervent Bush supporters were secretly - or not so secretly - waiting for: a spectacular Bush crash & burn ...
Into the Stretch (September 22, 2000) First of all, apologies to all my regular readers for being sooooo slow to put another article up ...
Turnaround (August 9, 2000) Let's skip quickly over the standard spiel about a Veep nominee being "ready on Day One" to assume the presidency -- the morbid spiel that every presidential candidate has to make. You have to go back three elections, to the famously embarrassing choice of Dan Quayle, to find a Veep nominee who obviously wasn't ...
Powell Lite (July 27, 2000) A few weeks ago, George W. Bush promised that eyes would light up when he announced his vice-presidential choice. Either he has already broken his first major campaign promise before the campaign is even fully underway, or he doesn't know the difference between eyes lit up and eyes glazed over ...
The Silly Season (July 18, 2000) Summertime, and the living is easy. It is the season of chili dogs, of romances that never last beyond September, and of big dumb movies full of explosions. So it should not really be a surprise to anyone that it has also been the season of George W. Bush ...
Numbers Game (March 8, 2000) Super Tuesday has come and gone; all that is left of the primary season is to shoot the wounded and cart off the bodies for a decent burial. For the rest of us, this is the first day of the general election campaign ...
A Hot Time in GOP Town (March 1, 2000) Thrills! Spills! Chills! The Bush-McCain battle royal has had them all, along with a touch of the truly bizarre ...
The Virtual Reform Party (February 22, 2000) Quite by accident, Michigan held two primaries on February 22. One -- call it the Real Republican primary -- GW Bush won quite handily ...
Resistance is Futile (February 20, 2000) The Stars and Bars have risen again in South Carolina. John McCain, who rode such a momentum wave out of New Hampshire, was last seen tumbling in the foam ...
GOP Runaway Train (February 3, 2000) Our theme, of course, is the New Hampshire results and their consequences ...
E2K (November 6, 1999) The first presidential election of the third millennium is now less than a year away. Yes, I know that technically the millennial change is in 2001 ... (Not really a "new" article -- just what I had handy when I opened this site.)
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