Partisan Politics:

Last night the Republicans filibustered low-income seniors, disabled veterans and the unemployed right out of their share of the stimulus package that every law-maker wants to bribe taxpayers and voters with.

A bill sponsored by the Senate Democrats that included these folks was bullied down to exclude them, falling short by one vote. Republicans only like poor people when they are dumb enough to vote for them. They consider wealth their god-given right to possess. After all, the majority of these poor people are not likely to vote for them this coming fall anyway, so why give them any money to spend? (Read The Washington Post story here.)

A double dose of double speak from the man who slipped us all the tongue:

There is no such thing necessarily in a dictatorial regime of iron-clad absolutely solid evidence. The evidence I had was the best possible evidence that he had a weapon.

—G. W. Bush on Meet the Press, February 2004

We're concerned about AIDS inside our White House—make no mistake about it.

—G. W. Bush, Washington, D. C., February 7, 2001