My letter to Frank Rich.

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I love reading Frank Rich on Sunday’s The guy is a great writer. So when he wrote this yesterday:

It’s not just torture we want to avoid. Most Americans don’t want to hear, see or feel anything about Iraq, whether they support the war or oppose it. They want to look away, period, and have been doing so for some time.

I finally can disagree with him and start to consider him a media elite. Someone that may not be AS in touch as I thought. You see, Mr. Rich. We don’t want to avoid, WE ARE TOTALLY POWERLESS TO DO ANYTHING. You see, we have people like Torturing Tom Carper that suspend habeas Corpus. People Like Mike McCastle that vote lockstep with Bush. That are ok with letting lawbreaking companies get a free pass.

Question of the Day

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this is a dead honest question. Why is Ruth Ann such a horrible Governor? ok, 5 answers in and I get no specifics.   What laws have passed?  What things have…

Adventures in Maverickyness — Does He Know Where He Is? Edition

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John McCain has had some trouble recently in breaking through the news — given the still fiercely pitched Dem primary fight — these days (and the fundraising is pretty anemic — $15M?) too. But there are interesting bits that are being reported here and there that we ought to take a good hard look at as examples of that prized quality of McCain’s — maverickyness. Of course, McCain abandoned any pretense to being a maverick when he decided to start pandering to the Christian Nationalists and neocons of the wingnut right as his path to the White House. This does mean, of course, that he has set himself up to run for the third term of BushCo, of which something like 28% of Americans are ready to buy again. So join me for a quick survey of the maverickyness here: