Russ McBee

Think back to the spring of 2005, just three and a half years ago, before this presidential campaign started. The Republicans controlled both houses of Congress and the White House. The Democrats in the Senate were more or less powerless to stop the GOP from running the country into the ground, and seldom exercised their right to filibuster ...

No small part of Obama's mandate is driven by a desire to see the most damaging turns of the last eight years reversed, so that this country can begin restoring itself to its fundamental principles. If the Obama administration takes that mandate seriously, they'll spend a lot of time reviewing the executive orders issued by President Bush over the ...

Obama gave his ''closing argument'' speech yesterday, and it's powerful stuff: Meanwhile, the Bush White House (which McCain has supported over 90 percent of the time) is hard at work, frantically trying to destroy the environment as quickly as possible. Here's the closing argument against four more years of the most destructive president in US ...

I've often thought that President Bush probably read ''The Trial'' and ''1984'' at some point and mistook them for how-to manuals. Today's signing of the FISA bill tends to support that theory. On the heels of yesterday's capitulation by the Senate on telecom immunity and warrantless spying, President Bush wasted no time in signing this abrogation ...

Yesterday, President Bush delivered a speech in Israel in which he called ''appeasers'' anyone who advocates talks with Iran. He even drew an explicit parallel to 1930's-era Nazi appeasers: ''Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all ...