This Waterboarding Sponsored By Mike Mukasey and Chuck Schumer

I got your number Chuck.  Don’t think I forgot.  At the appointed time when Democrats stood strong, you were the one who caved and made all this possible.  It was your “vote for justice” that pushed us backward in the fight against waterboarding, proving analogous to virtually every other...

In Defense of Schumer: It Isn’t About Torture

NY Sen Charles Schumer has been getting pummeled for his support of Michael Mukasey as Bush’s new AG. Maybe he deserves some of the vitriol sent his way, I won’t argue that, but lost in the understandable fury over his pimping for an authoritarian torture-excuser is any mention of the real...

Inexcusable

In November of last year, the American people spoke with loud and firm voices; their votes which changed the majority party in both the House and the Senate was without question a direct mandate to put a hold on the President’s policies and to return America to vital principles without which this...

If At First You Don’t Succeed

Nora Ephron expresses the sentiment that many Democrats such as myself have felt for sometime now, the same feeling we feel as we watch the new Democratically controlled congress stumble horribly through failure after failure both in attempting to slow the momentum of a failed administration, and in...