By Wink Current Republicans, for some reason, have deified Ronald Reagan. This is curious, for certain, because Reagan was way more liberal than any current GOP candidate would dare to admit. Today Reagan would never make it past the Iowa caucuses. All of that is a discussion for another day. On that day, we will [...]
By Wink Do you care about government waste? Republicans do. Or they say they do. Are they screaming about $31 billion to $60 billion disappearing? The bipartisan Wartime Contraction Commission is asking Congress to quickly enact recommendations to overhaul the contracting process and increase accountability. Why? According to the commission, the Iraq / Afghanistan wars [...]
By Wink Not too long ago (February 14 to be exact) we at Winkest Link expressed our displeasure about how often opponents just make up s*** to trash the president. In the political arena we don’t mind a little hyperbole. Politics, after all, is hardball, so…. GOP: Feel free to say Democrats spend tax dollars [...]
By Cessna “Liberals” have pretty much been on the right side of every major issue in the history of this country. Ending slavery. Medicare. Social Security. Voting rights. Every one fiercely opposed by conservatives. Those soft-hearted liberals were against going to war in Vietnam and Iraq. Those ventures both went well, didn’t they? Now liberals [...]
By Wink The May 18 Winkest link article was obviously written several days before it was printed. In it we wrote that the Defense Department, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, was going to release photos showing alleged abuse of prisoners in detention facilities in Afghanistan and Iraq. This did not happen. [...]
I have always felt it is a waste to not utilize ex-presidents more fully. What do they do when they leave office? Many recent presidents have gotten very wealthy on speaking engagements. I don’t really begrudge them that. It is nice that Jimmy Carter has raised awareness of Habitat for Humanity, and promoted democracy by [...]
I imagine President Bush is watching all the changes right now and wondering…. “President Obama is sure popular. I suppose some of that is because he is new. I was fairly popular when I was new. And he’s got that ‘black thing’ going. It’s always cool to be black. He keeps doing cool things, and [...]
So we are in this meeting, and I say to my co-workers “You know the government has recorded all of your phone calls and e-mails for several years now.” Co-worker 1: They are recording our business calls? Me: No, they were recording ALL calls, yours, and yours, and yours (pointing to various coworkers). And recording [...]
–Sorry about getting this in so late; it’s finals week and I haven’t had time to watch my primary news source (The Daily Show)– So we all know by now the story of Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the man that threw his shoes and shouted at President Bush at his news conference in Iraq. What some of [...]
Iraqi leaders are now gently pushing us (the U.S.) toward the door. What was our purpose there again? Feel free to ignore the imaginary ‘weapons of mass destruction’ and ‘poison gas factories’ that Bush & Cheney used to drag us into an unprovoked war. Let’s pretend that the real reason, all along, was simply [...]
