Cynicism Is What Passes For

Americans Who Feel The Most Ignored These Days Are Not The Screamers. They Are The Solid Citizens Who Are Sick To Death Of Pols Who Play To The Rant.

I Came To Political Consciousness With John F. Kennedy's Magnificent 1961 Inaugural Address. It Seemed The Start Of Something Fresh And Exciting, And It Was.

We Journalists Are Never So Idiotic As When We Analyze Things That We Shouldn't Be Analyzing.

Bush Promised A Foreign Policy Of Humility And A Domestic Policy Of Compassion. He Has Given Us A Foreign Policy Of Arrogance And A Domestic Policy That Is Cynical, Myopic And Cruel.

In Point Of Fact, 'simpson-bowles' Has Become A Symbol, Or Simbowl, Rather Than An Actual Plan, Political Shorthand For The Process Of Long-term Deficit Reduction.