Earlier this week, President Bush gave an all-too-familiar thumbs down to an appeal by a bi-partisan delegation of the nation’s governors to “increase spending on roads, bridges and other public works” as an economic stimulus. www.nytimes.com/2008/02/26/us/26govs.html Just a week ago in an address to a national “Pathway to Prosperity” conference on infrastructure at Iona College in New York, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney dramatized how badly seven years of such rejections from Bush have damaged the backbone of our country. (More)

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What a week of surprises! First, Castro resigns after 50 years. Then Obama wins his tenth primary in a row. Oil tops $100 a barrel. And Egypt turns out the be a land of milk and honey, rather than the depressed, decrepit dictatorship we all thought it was. (More)

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George W. Bush didn’t kill the Golden Goose, but he sure as hell turned its feathers gray. Now the old bird’s waddling up and down Wall Street with a Styrofoam cup, pleading, “Change? Change? Change?” Help’s on the way, but John McCain’s close behind, waving his bloody little hatchet. (More)

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America’s master prevaricator couldn’t resist telling one more Mitt-lie as he bowed out of the presidential race with all the grace of a worn out maggot.  “Did you see that today, government workers make more money than people who work in the private sector,”  Romney told a right-wing group in Washington.  “Can you imagine what happens to an economy where the best opportunities are for bureaucrats?  It’s time to lower taxes, including corporate taxes, to take a weed-whacker to government regulations, to reform entitlements, and to stand up to the increasingly voracious appetite of the unions in our governmentsig.”  Romney provided no source for his false claim about the wages of government workers.  We Googled and Googled and couldn’t find one either.   

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See, didn’t I tell you about the job losses and the recession six months ago? It was as obvious and inevitable as the prediction I’m now making that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are drifting toward a torrid affair, which he foretold at the end of the Los Angeles debate when he put his hand on her chair, leaned down and, borrowing a line from the hit movie Juno, whispered softly in her ear, “You smell like soup.” (More)

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