Russ McBee

I ran across these two quotes from Angela Davis, both of which bear remembering: First, on President Bush: When Bush says democracy, I often wonder what he's referring to. Then, dear Angela pretty much sums up our shallow culture's obsession with style over substance: It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation ...

The quote of the day comes from today's NYT editorial: We believe that the fight against Al Qaeda is the central battle for this generation, but Mr. Bush’s claim that Iraq is the main front is wrong. That is Afghanistan, and the United States is in real danger of losing because Mr. Bush’s failed adventure in Iraq is eating up the Pentagon’s ...

In response to a post about Bush's proposed economic stimulus (which includes the possibility of a tax rebate), a commenter at KnoxViews said this: Can I get my rebate in EUROS? You said it, Sarge.

From a letter to the editor, in today's New York Times: The true greatness of America is that we will survive eight years of George W. Bush. I sure hope so.

Southern Beale was there, and she said: What was most interesting to me is how few National Guard soldiers had come out to see the president. I saw just three soldiers, although the motorcade passed right by the building. Maybe the rest of them were in Iraq.

Bruce Fein: Cheney has dulled political accountability and concocted theories for evading the law and Constitution that would have embarrassed King George III.

On the US refusal to plan for the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's overthrow, Sir David Manning (Tony Blair's chief foreign policy advisor in 2002 and now the UK ambassador to Washington) said this: They may agree that failure isn't an option, but this does not mean that they will avoid it. Meanwhile, the mercenaries hired by the ...

Via TPMmuckraker, Gonzales said in Congressional testimony today: ''I think I may be aware of that.''