previous issue July 19

Massive Anti-Incumbent Wave Will Defeat Many in Congress Republicans and Democrats alike by Brent Budowsky The economy burns, while Washington fiddles. The voters seethe, while Washington dithers. The creation of jobs is a luxury that can wait until the next election while the Constitution is an inconvenience that falls victim to the polls. Obama Outlines Policy of Endless War by Bill Van Auken Any misconception that Barack Obama is running in the 2008 election as an “antiwar” candidate should have been cleared up Tuesday in what was billed by the Democratic presidential campaign as a “major speech” on national security and the US war in Iraq. Speaking before a backdrop of massed American flags at the Reagan Building in Washington, Obama made it clear that he opposes the present US policy in Iraq not on the basis of any principled opposition to neo-colonialism or aggressive war, but rather on the grounds that the Iraq war is a mistaken deployment of power that fails to advance the global strategic interests of American imperialism. Will Bush Play "Get-Out-of-Jail-Free" Card? by Kevin Barrett If Bush leaves 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue next January, there should be a squad car waiting to pick him up. Even if he somehow dodges the murder rap, sooner or later Bush will face dozens of charges of war crimes, kidnapping, torture, electoral fraud, maybe even high treason against the Constitution of the United States of America. Bush is a good bet to be our first ex-president to spend the rest of his life behind bars. I say IF Bush leaves office next January because…well, he'd have to be crazy to step down. Videos: Dr. Horrible by Neil Patrick Harris., et. al. Don't miss this, it will only be free this weekend! (Who says political metaphors can't be entertaining?)

Today's Quote:

"We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Editor's Notes & Rants:

Whatever you do, don't call it a timetable! White House says US and Iraq have agreed to set a 'general time horizon' for the reduction of US combat forces in Iraq.

Pentagon report calls for even steeper troop drawdown than Obama is calling for.

McCain fires Phil Gramm. As Keith Olbermann put it last night, McCain's economic plan will now have to be called the Phil Gramm memorial economic plan.

Here we go again. McCain war buddy and surrogate Bud Day says "the Muslims" are the enemy. McCain refuses to repudiate those comments.

Reagan policy advisor and Conservative activist Larry Hunter endorses Barack Obama.

Pot calls kettle black. Nancy Pelosi calls Bush "a total failure."

Obama is considering Chuck Hagel (R) for VP? Gawd help us!

Poll: 75% say gays should be allowed to serve openly in the military.