Muck, Inc. By Debra J. Saunders
Over beers, Brian McConnell and his buddies came up with the idea to put a measure on the San Francisco ballot to rename a city sewage plant after President Bush. Ha, ha, ha.
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October 14, 2008
October 12, 2008
Playing the Race Card By Debra J. Saunders
The race card is back. After Tuesday night's debate, Washington party-crossover dean David Gergen announced it was "too early" to declare victory for Democrat Barack Obama, not because the election is a month away, but because "Obama is black."
October 9, 2008
Obama, the Good Soldier By Debra J. Saunders
Two important questions were asked at Tuesday night's presidential debate.
October 7, 2008
The Supersize Bailout By Debra J. Saunders
The only way Congress could pass a $700 billion economic bailout package last week was to spend an extra $110 billion that the federal government does not have.
October 5, 2008
Return to Redistricting Sanity By Debra J. Saunders
As reform measures go, Proposition 11 -- the redistricting reform measure -- is hardly a transformational law likely to supercharge activists (of any political stripe) eager to make Sacramento more effective and more accountable to the public.
October 3, 2008
The Palin-Biden Verdict By Debra J. Saunders
She passed. He passed. Palin fared better going against Joe Biden than Katie Couric.
October 2, 2008
Bonanza. Bailout. Bonanza. By Debra J. Saunders
Who do I blame for this financial disaster? Let me count the villains. Start with President Bush and Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.
September 30, 2008
Supreme Parody: Biden versus Palin By Debra J. Saunders
Want a preview of Thursday's veepstakes debate between running mates Joe Biden and Sarah Palin? Pick up a copy of Christopher Buckley's latest satirical novel, "Supreme Courtship," that begins when a very unpopular American president decides to tweak Senate solons by nominating to the U.S. Supreme Court America's most popular TV judge, the "sassy, flippant, sexy," no-nonsense, gun-toting hottie from Texas, Pepper Cartwright.
September 28, 2008
The Sheriff and the Professor By Debra J. Saunders
Before getting to Friday night's debate, let us look at what happened before the debate.Yes, John McCain's suspension of his campaign earlier in the week and call for a delay of Friday's debate were campaign stunts.
September 25, 2008
Bailing Out the Bailout By Debra J. Saunders
Until Wednesday afternoon, when GOP presidential nominee John McCain announced that he was heading to Washington to work with congressional leaders and the Bushies to craft a better bailout bill, both McCain and Democratic candidate Barack Obama clearly had believed that the last place they wanted to be seen was in Washington.
September 23, 2008
Trillion Dollar Baby By Debra J. Saunders
I understood the Bush administration's decision to promise up to $30 billion to facilitate the fire sale of Bear Stearns. I got the administration's decision to spend as much as $200 billion to stabilize mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which are worth about $5 trillion. Ditto the $85 billion federal bailout of AIG.
September 18, 2008
The Hyperbole Market -- It's the Worst By Debra J. Saunders
John McCain was right when he said Monday that despite the bad news about Lehman Brothers filing for bankruptcy and AIG trolling for help from Uncle Sam, "the fundamentals of our economy are strong." As politicians running for the White House learn, honesty is a commodity best used sparingly on the campaign trail.
September 14, 2008
Old Enough To Fight, Old Enough To Drink By Debra J. Saunders
At age 18, an American can enlist in the military, vote, sign a contract, get married, have an operation -- hey, in California, a 14-year-old can have an abortion without telling her parents -- but he cannot buy a beer. Not legally, anyway.
September 11, 2008
Lipstick, Dipstick By Debra J. Saunders
"You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig," Sen. Barack Obama said Tuesday -- thereby spawning one of those vacuous debates that will consume at least two days of air time on cable news talk shows.
September 7, 2008
Romancing the Vote By Debra J. Saunders
The 2008 Republican National Convention had too much in common with the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
September 5, 2008
The Old John McCain By Debra J. Saunders
"I miss the old John McCain." It's a refrain I hear on a regular basis, most often from people who are Barack Obama voters no matter what.
September 4, 2008
Sarah Palin Strikes Back By Debra J. Saunders
"The Republican Party will not stand by while Gov. (Sarah) Palin is subjected to sexist attacks," Carly Fiorina, the former head of Hewlett-Packard and constant McCain booster, told a press conference at the Republican National Convention Wednesday. "I don't believe American women are going to stand for it either."
September 2, 2008
The RNC's Unconvention - By Debra J. Saunders
"This plan makes no sense. It's the height of political correctness," railed John Ziegler, a California alternate delegate, Sunday after he heard the news that John McCain was suspending the political part of the first night of the Republican National Convention.
August 31, 2008
Sarah Palin -- Dream Girl By Debra J. Saunders
MINNEAPOLIS-ST. PAUL -- Bingo. For weeks, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has been the Republican whom conservatives barely dared to hope could become John McCain's pick as his running mate.
August 29, 2008
It's All Good in Obama's "Cathedral" By Debra J. Saunders
Can he win in November? Yes, Barack Obama was the best Democrat in the field. Start with his charismatic yet cool demeanor.
