Hey Timmeh. . .

Tim Russert Suddenly, gone to the Next World. Somehow, his graduation is more poignant because we saw him every Sunday on Meet The Press, and during the primary coverage. We may not have agreed with him all the time of course, but a guy trained by Jesuits will find his moments, and Timmeh found more than his share. A big …

MOUTHPIECE BITES PRESIDENT

The Party Under The Bus Of course the Bus we’re talking about isn’t the “Straight-Talk Express,” AKA, “The Lobby-Knobby Express,” piloted by John McSame, the Greedy Old Party’s nominee for Commander-in-Chief of the World president of the United States. The bus we’re talking about, as well as all of Washington, is the Scott McClellan man-of-war, the Milquetoast Marauder— no, the …

Paying The GI Jackson

WASHINGTON — John McCain defended his plan for veterans’ college benefits Monday, as both he, and Barack Obama spoke to veterans on Memorial Day. Hillary Clinton campaigned Monday in Puerto Rico. Obama and McCain have sparred from a distance recently over the bill, sometimes with what the MSM calls “heated words.” In his comments on Memorial Day, McCain did not …

The Wright Stuff

Updated below The protracted folderol over Reverend Wright has done something quite important in the presidential race. America’s great but errant spotlight of high moral values has been directed so extensively, so brightly, and so carefully on Barack Obama’s relationship with him, that it has set a powerful precedent which has just begun to focus on John McCain. Hagee and …

WHO T.F. IS “TONE-DEAF??

First we get Hucklebee making funny about a gun being pointed at Obama. Then we get the Clint justifying staying in the campaign because Obama could get hisself assassinated by some hard-working white gumball. Now we get Faux Noise “contributor” Liz Fox Trotter, who supposedly recognizes Hillary Clinton’s comment was a “campaign killer,” and not a minute later coughs up …

Out Of Time

Actor, director, Sydney Pollack has run out of time on earth at 73. You can be sure one or more of his films touched your life in a special way. For me, it was Out Of Africa. Onward and inward, Syd.