Feingold Tunes in to Antiwar Sentiment Feingold Tunes in to Antiwar Sentiment
President Bush and US Senator Russ Feingold have taken dramatically different approaches to the traditional August break from Washington intrigues. Bush has gone into hiding, whi...
Aug 19, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Cindy Sheehan’s Tragic Critics Cindy Sheehan’s Tragic Critics
While debating conservative pundit David Horowitz on Ron Reagan's MSNBC show the other night, I was struck by the desperation with which supporters of the war have turned their fu...
Aug 17, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Here’s the PLAN Here’s the PLAN
One need not be a student of Tom DeLay's dirty dealings to recognize that the corruption of Washington is very nearly complete. Occupied by a president and vice president who are ...
Aug 15, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
The President’s Vacation From Reality The President’s Vacation From Reality
George Bush is on vacation in Crawford, Texas, taking the same August-long break that he did in the summer before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Cent...
Aug 11, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Hillary Clinton Lucks Out Hillary Clinton Lucks Out
New York Senator Hillary Clinton has always looked like a good bet to win re-election in 2006--probably by a margin wide enough to jumpstart the 2008 presidential campaign that ma...
Aug 9, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Robin Cook’s Conscience Robin Cook’s Conscience
Words such as "conscience" and "honor" have pretty much disappeared from the American political lexicon in this age of Bush Administration lies and leaks. But when the histories o...
Aug 8, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
“Energy’s on the Anti-Iraq Side” “Energy’s on the Anti-Iraq Side”
It is not often that this column pays tribute to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. But the man who in 1994 played a pivotal role in putting the Republican Party in control of bo...
Aug 5, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Cheney’s Deadly ‘Last Throes’ Cheney’s Deadly ‘Last Throes’
Vice President Dick Cheney, who predicted on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, that Americans would be "greeted as liberators," has in recent weeks been peddling a new line of...
Aug 3, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
Call the President an “SOB,” Win Votes Call the President an “SOB,” Win Votes
"Two months ago, the special election race in the 2nd Congressional District, which stretches across seven southern Ohio counties, was expected to be a low-key affair, a near-auto...
Aug 3, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols
The Bolton Embarrassment The Bolton Embarrassment
When the United States sought to be a true world leader, as opposed to a petulant global bully, this country's seat at the United Nations was occupied by great men and women. Cons...
Aug 1, 2005 / Blog / John Nichols