The president is sleeping comfortably in Crawford, Texas, tonight, ... but there are an awful lot of Americans who are kind of sleepless these days -- they're sleepless about wondering where their job went. They're sleepless about wondering where their health insurance went or whether they are going to have health insurance. They are sleepless wondering whether their kid is going to be the next to die in Iraq. |
The problem is, it works. It appeals to the worst instincts of the American people so both sides use it. There's not much high mindedness in politics because you couldn't survive. If you did, someone would hire a private investigator to see if you had an affair 25 years ago. |
The problem with life without parole is that people get out for reasons that have nothing to do with justice. We had a case where a guy who was a rapist, a serial sex offender, was convicted, then let out on what I think an believe was a technicality, a new trial was ordered and the victim wouldn't come back and go through a second trial, |
The pundits in Washington have been talking about me as the front-runner for a long time, |
The Republican leadership in Washington is now spending more time answering questions about ethical misconduct than doing the people's business. |
the Republican Party and even my own party has simply moved too far to the right. |
The Republican Party is bankrupt of ideas and bankrupt of morality, |
The school buses were controlled by the school board, not the mayor, ... You can't blame the mayor for that. |
The Senate has a duty to fully and fairly judge Roberts' record and qualifications, but how can it possibly do that when the White House has been sloppy or just plain uncooperative in providing information? |
The Shiites aren't necessarily uniform. |
The State of the Union may look rosy from the White House balcony or the suites of George Bush's wealthiest donors. But hardworking Americans will see through this president's efforts to wrap his radical agenda with a compassionate ribbon. |
The truth is, the president misled America when he sent us to war. |
The way we're going to win elections in this country is not to become Republican lite. The way we're going to win elections in this country is to stand up for what we believe in. |
The White House wants us to have a permanent commitment to Iraq. This is an Iraqi problem. President Bush got rid of Saddam Hussein and that was a great thing, but that could have been done in a very different way. |
There are Democrats everywhere, |