AUSTIN, Texas -- When in the midst of a Blame Typhoon, with
charges and counter-charges being hurled in all directions, I find it most
useful to consult those two polar stars of utter wrongheadedness, Tom DeLay
and The Wall Street Journal'...
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21 August 2003
The “Bulworth” movie -- with Warren Beatty playing a senator who
begins to speak disturbing truths in the form of rap lyrics -- caused quite
a stir when it came out five years ago. At the time, I wondered aloud in a
column about what might...
19 August 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- It's the All-American Blame Game! A
Finger-Pointing festival. A perfectly circular firing squad of, "Told you
so." Bureaucrats perfecting their CYA moves. Politicians jumping on the
opportunity to make points...
14 August 2003
Contrary to media cliches about “the silly season,” this is a time
of very serious -- and probably catastrophic -- political maneuvers.
From California to the U.N. building in New York City to the sweltering heat of Iraq...
From California to the U.N. building in New York City to the sweltering heat of Iraq...
13 August 2003
AUSTIN, Texas -- Hang in there, Texas Eleven. You are not
forgotten.
Gov. Goodhair Perry says the AWOL senators are holding up "issues of great importance to the people of Texas." That's funny. There has been one...
Gov. Goodhair Perry says the AWOL senators are holding up "issues of great importance to the people of Texas." That's funny. There has been one...
11 August 2003
DUBLIN, N.H. -- What a summer for national credulity fitness. My
credulity gets a lot of exercise, since I cover Texas politics. Like Alice
in Wonderland's White Queen, years of practice have enabled me to believe as
many as six impossible...
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