AUSTIN, Texas -- Love those Iowa results. Nothing better than a huge political scrum where the front-runner stumbles, the guy everyone wrote off for dead six weeks ago comes roaring back, an unknown emerges, an old war-horse drops out -- a...
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20 January 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- My fellow Americans, the state of the union's finances is enough to make an Enron accountant gag. When George W. Bush took office, he was handed a going concern. Projected annual surpluses from 2002 to 2011 were $5.6...
16 January 2004
The father of President Bush the Second called it “the vision thing” --
which he was widely presumed to lack. By early 1987, Time magazine reported,
George H. W. Bush was using that phrase “in clear exasperation.” Then, as
now,...
15 January 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- My long-reigning favorite Bushism has now been edged out by a fresh contender I cannot resist. The old fave goes back to Oct. 4, 2001, when Bush, still trying to reassure a shaky nation, said, "We need to counter the...
13 January 2004
Like many progressives, I've felt torn between Howard Dean's and Dennis
Kucinich's respective strengths. I've resolved this conflict so far by
embracing my indecision and giving money to both. Kucinich has spoken out,
eloquently and...
12 January 2004
AUSTIN, Texas -- In Texas, where the border is a constant presence in our lives, no one is mistaking President Bush's immigration proposal for a brilliant new departure in immigration policy, or even for a ploy to get Hispanic political...
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