Three disturbing facts from this week's news cycle: Larry Craig likes to take a "wide stance" when, depending on whose version you believe, either doing his business or looking to get busy; Katrina fall guy Michael Brown now works in the private sector as a disaster response advisor (Best advice: "Don't do what I did!"); and the Government Accountability Office has so little faith in the honesty of the Bush administration, it felt the need to leak its negative assessment of progress in Iraq to prevent it from being watered down by the White House. In my mind, these stories have all blended together, with President Bush calling a news conference to announce: "Heck of a blow job, Craigie."
In the battle against terrorism, we look on with dismay as the government ceded sections of our nation that were governed by the rule of law to Taliban sympathizers and Al Qaeda, making Pakistan the Petri dish of the international terrorist movement.
Since Larry Craig was once a co-worker of mine in the U.S. Senate, I feel compelled to comment on his undoing.
I have to admit, I became almost awestruck at his ability to hang in there. Which goes for the whole crew, by the way. Soon we will know why he left at this particular moment. The mind reels at the possibilities.
Doesn't it set a wonderful example for democracy when leaders in this country, both Democrat and Republican, call for the ouster of the elected Maliki government in Iraq?
The most undercovered story in the anniversary derby: the political fight between Washington and the state and locals over the future of public housing and medical care for the indigent.
As a public service to those people who are straight or gay or NOT GAY, NOT GAY, NOT GAY, who may be dramatically impaired, I offer you my reading of the police report from the incident.
Just when you thought things at the White House couldn't get any stranger, the president has decided it is good public policy to increase the number of uninsured children in our country.
As we all await the Petraeus Report on the state of the surge, we may also need to be anticipating the Allawi Coup. I'm talking, of course, about Ayad Allawi, longtime C.I.A. asset and former interim prime minister of Iraq.
True or false? You could scour the planet and never find a single heterosexual man wrongly accused of a homosexual act that would plead guilty "in hopes of making it go away."
The brilliant magic of Mad Men is in the quiet dialectic of rage and supplication between the sexes.
I don't want him to be gay because he is such a pathetic figure. Bearing his outrage but not his shame before the cameras today. Fine Senator. Don't be gay.
Yesterday, his name was "embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales." Tomorrow, he'll swap "embattled" for "former." Not "disgraced." Not "impeached." Not "indicted." Not even "controversial."
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