The Moose is looking for a few good elephants.
The Moose is an independent beast, although he is inclined toward the donkey. That doesn't mean he can't say good things about Republicans - even about those with whom he has differences. Indeed, the Moose believes that we need more bi-partisan comity in the pastures of Washington.
As the Moose noted in the previous post, we are also in desperate need of Republican truthtellers in this era of Bush mendacity. There are a notable few - Hagel, McCain, Chafee and Shays, but independent GOP voices are a rarity in this era of Rovian retribution
Another Republican truthteller is Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. While the Clinton impeachment was the wrong thing to do, even as an Impeachment Manager, Graham would not buy all the charges. Indeed, he now appears to have a good relationship with Hillary who serves with him on the Armed Services Committee. Graham also bucked the Republican establishment and supported John McCain for President. And unlike many on the knee-jerk right, Graham resolutely demanded answers from the Pentagon on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal.
Now, he is once again bucking right wing orthodoxy by proposing a large payroll tax increase for upper bracket taxpayers to pay for social security personal accounts. Robert Novak wrote,
"He states two axioms his fellow conservatives will not address. First, Social Security -- the government's most popular program -- cannot be saved without "some sacrifice." Second, the personal accounts Republicans want cannot be passed without bipartisan cooperation -- meaning a high-profile Democratic co-sponsor."
Even if you're opposed to partial privatization, one can recognize that Graham's stance takes some gumption because it violates three basic principles of the contemporary right. First, it requires the comfortable to sacrifice. Second, it requires that Republicans actually attempt to pay their bills. And third, it suggests collaboration with the donkey enemy.
In addition to his independence, Lindsey Graham is genuinely funny. A sense of humor is a rare quality among elected officials. Unless you are laughing at them, Senators and Congressman are largely a dour and humorless lot.
If Graham continues to challenge the Republican orthodoxy, he will undoubtedly face retribution from the Republican establishment. But Graham is sufficiently conventionally conservative on a range of other issues to protect him from internal party criticism.
In the next few years, donkeys will find allies in unlikely places. For example, if Democrats have the audacity to take on the issue of wasteful pork barrel spending and corporate welfare, they might even find an ally in Tom Coburn who makes Santorum look like a Deaniac. Democrats must be creative in exploiting the contradictions in the Republican party and that means occasionally finding themselves with strange bedfellows and hopefully with Republican straight shooters like Lindsey Graham.
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The Moose avers that truth is to this Administration what garlic is to a vampire.
Mendacity has become mundane in the Bush Administration. From the cost of the Medicare drug bill to the cost of the war, the Bushies are averse to the truth. Since the obscenely triumphalist landing on the Lincoln in the "Mission Accomplished" photo op, the Administration has rarely uttered an accurate comment about the situation on the ground in Iraq.
This morning, we learn from another CIA leak to the New York Times, that the assessments from agency operatives in Iraq do not exactly square with what we're hearing from Administration mouthpieces,
"Together, the appraisals, which follow several other such warnings from officials in Washington and in the field, were much more pessimistic than the public picture being offered by the Bush administration before the elections scheduled for Iraq next month, the officials said. The cable was sent to C.I.A. headquarters after American forces completed what military commanders have described as a significant victory, with the retaking of Falluja, a principal base of the Iraqi insurgency, in mid-November."
These assessments follow a National Intelligence Estimate from the summer which warned of a possible civil war. At that time, the President dismissed this finding as a wild "guess." Now, the notion of a civil war is rapidly becoming conventional wisdom among even backers of the war such as Charles Krauthammer.
Meanwhile, Rummy remains in deep denial about his role in the miscaculation in Iraq. In another piece in today's Times,
"He [Rumsfeld] remained defiant in the face of critics who say the United States failed to send enough troops to Iraq initially to handle postwar security and, now, to combat the insurgents.
He contended that the decision on troop levels was largely "out of my control," since he was following the advice and requests of his regional commanders, first Gen. Tommy R. Franks and now Gen. John P. Abizaid and Gen. George W. Casey Jr."
The Times then helpfully points out,
"While that may be technically true, Mr. Rumsfeld approves all decisions on troop levels in Iraq, and his commanders and top civilian aides have indicated that he routinely demands detailed explanations for troop increases and movements."
Can someone please get Secretary Rumsfeld the number of Dr. Phil? This man is incapable of confronting his own errors and taking responsibility for his behavior. If he is going to remain as SECDEF for the foreseeable future, at least someone can get him professional help so that he can address some serious issues.
Since the G.O.P. completely controls Washington and executive branch oversight is nonexistent, we need Republican truth tellers now more than ever. We live at a time when charlatans can slander a war hero's record of thirty years ago, but we cannot learn the truth about a war our troops are fighting at this very moment.
The Moose believes that we cannot afford to lose in Iraq. But he also suggests that victory will prove impossible if the public is not given the hard truth about this war.
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Monday, December 06, 2004
In today's sermon, Pastor Moose preaches that sometimes we cling by a slender reed to the ways of the Lord.
Brother Ralph Reed delivers the Word to the heathen donkey in USA Today titled, "So who were those values voters?",
"Values voters, in the South or the heartland, are concerned about preserving marriage, protecting children from violent or sexually explicit entertainment, teaching the same values in school that are taught at home and reducing the number of teen pregnancies and abortions. More than any single issue, they seek to redress a coarsening of the culture and a loss of civility. They want a family-friendly society that is compassionate to the needy and holds people accountable for their conduct...
"The American people have always viewed politics through a prism of faith, and they naturally seek leaders who share their values and stands on the issues."
Ralph Reed was chairman of Bush-Cheney '04 in the Southeast region
And now, my fellow lovers of the Lord, please read in unison from this excerpt from the Washington Post, September, 26, 2004,
"Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and public relations consultant Michael Scanlon quietly worked with conservative religious activist Ralph Reed to help the state of Texas shut down an Indian tribe's casino in 2002, then the two quickly persuaded the tribe to pay $4.2 million to try to get Congress to reopen it...
"Ten days after the Tigua Indians' $60 million-a-year casino was shuttered in February 2002, Abramoff wrote a tribal representative that he would get Republicans in Congress to rectify the "gross indignity perpetuated by the Texas state authorities," assuring him that he had already lined up "a couple of Senators willing to ram this through," according to the e-mails...
"What he did not reveal was that he and Scanlon had been paying Reed, an avowed foe of gambling, to encourage public support for Cornyn's effort to close two Indian casinos in Texas. Abramoff, one of Washington's powerhouse Republican lobbyists until his work came under scrutiny by law enforcement agencies this year, has long been close to Reed, former executive director of the Christian Coalition and now southern regional chairman of President Bush's reelection campaign. Both have political ties to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), as does Scanlon, who had served as his spokesman...
"Reed was paid $4.2 million by Abramoff and Scanlon for his work opposing several tribal casinos in southern states from 2001 to 2003, government sources said...
"We knew that Greenberg Traurig was recruiting coalition members and raising funds as well, but we had no direct knowledge of their clients or interests," Reed's office said in a written statement. "At no time were we retained by nor did we represent any casino or casino company."
Brothers and sisters - isn't it amazing that when you are as upright as Brother Reed, you don't even suspect that others might not be. And besides, a lot of good tithing for the sacred elephant can come from $4.2 million. Let us all say, Praise the Lord!
Since the devout and values-based Mr. Reed was a chairman of the Bush campaign, perhaps he was just inspired by this thought from his Leader that was found in Sunday's Washington Post,
"We think of the patient hope of men and women across the centuries who listened to the words of the profits and lived in joyful expectation."
-- A White House transcript of President Bush's speech at the Christmas tree lighting on Thursday. Nineteen minutes later, a corrected transcript changed "profits" to "prophets."
Pastor Moose can only conclude that when you walk on the path of the Lord, good things will come your way.
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The Moose wonders whether the President will be forced to call in the 82nd Airborne to quell a rebellion in a nation's capital.
This time, the site of these disturbances is not Baghdad but rather D.C. Several rebellious congressional clerics are apparently challenging the Grand Ayatollah's authority in Washington over the intelligence bill. The first graph in the lead story in yesterday's New York Times told the entire story,
"President Bush sought to stem a near-rebellion by members of his own party in Congress yesterday by describing a sweeping intelligence-overhaul bill they oppose as an effort "to do everything necessary to confront and defeat the terrorist threat" and calling for its passage during a brief Congressional session this week."
Renegade clerics Hunter and Sensenbrenner are leading the insurgency. Hunter objects to the invasion of sacred congressional ground, otherwise known as turf. Sensenbrenner wants to crack down on infidels receiving driver's licenses. Both perhaps worthy objectives - but they do call into question who is in charge in the G.O.P.
After the November debacle, the smart money predicted that the donkeys would be at each other's throat. Instead, the Republicans are the ones engaged in a civil war. Only days after the returns were in, Arlen Specter felt the wrath of the fundamentalists and was forced to place his conscience in a blind trust in order to retain his chairmanship.
This probably is indicative of what the future holds for the G.O.P. as long suppressed tensions in the party come to the surface and their leader is increasingly viewed as a lame duck. Social moderates vs. the religious right, neo-cons vs. the foreign policy traditionalists and fiscal hawks vs. supply siders all may be feuding in the coming months and years.
And we thought the donkey had tsouris! The next thing we'll learn is that the entire House Republican caucus is stoked up on steroids!
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Saturday, December 04, 2004
The Moose comments on the dog that hasn't barked.
In the immediate aftermath of the November election, there was much chatter about the need for the Bush Administration to reach out to Democrats. As cabinet members depart the Administration en masse in the post-election massacre, there is so far no hint that any Democrats will move in. Of course, the Moose overlooks Norm Mineta who is holding out at the DOT. Perhaps the West Wing forgot about him.
On his way out the door, HHS Secretary Thompson departed with a comforting thought,
"I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not, you know, attacked our food supply, because it is so easy to do," Thompson said. "And we are importing a lot of food from the Middle East, and it would be easy to tamper with that."
So thanks alot Mr. Secretary. Now you tell us. (Note to self - avoid the hummus dip at the office Christmas party).
Despite the mass exodus, the incompetent one remains -Rummy. All that happened on his watch was an abysmal post-war plan and a prison scandal. This confirms that the only ones held accountable in this Administration are welfare mothers and struggling third grade students. For them, standards and accountability apply. For Rumsfeld, he is just passed along to the next grade (or term) regardless of his performance.
Holy Molly, even in Texas high school football, they have no pass, no play! Goodness gracious, Mr. President, you should know that if a kid had Rummy's record he would not be allowed to quarterback for the Crawford High School Pirates much less run the biggest defense establishment in the world!
On the policy front, it doesn't appear that there is going to be any reaching out, either. It looks like the old time religion will be the hallmark of the second term, as it was in the first. Indeed, the second term agenda appears to have been developed in a Wednesday Morning breakfast meeting of the Grover Norquist crowd - social security privatization, more tax cuts for the comfortable and tort reform.
Expect some soothing and soaring bi-partisan rhetoric in the President's inaugural address. However, what really counts is the implementation of what the Moose has called the "Conan the Republican" program - the elephant truly wants to hear the lamentations of the Democrats.
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Friday, December 03, 2004
"It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself."
Speech to Holy Name Society, Oyster Bay, August 16, 1903
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Please indulge Pastor Moose as he ascends to the bully pulpit to deliver an extended sermon on the evils of gambling.
The Moose notes that the party of values apparently got its money worth from shaking down Indian tribes. On occasion, the Moose has mentioned the extraordinary Indian gambling scandal. It is a complex, Byzantine and sordid tale of Tom Delay cronies Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlon, Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed, the White House and upwards to $70 million. It is stuff of fiction and involves a cast of characters who progressives love to loathe. It is possibly of the magnitude of a modern Teapot Dome Scandal.
Today, the Washington Post editorializes on another element of the caper. Another DeLay ally, Congressman Robert Ney of Ohio was apparently doing the bidding of the tribes while he was benefiting from their largesse,
"Mr. Abramoff enlisted Mr. Ney in the Tigua cause in March 2002. Mr. Ney was the lead House sponsor of a pending election reform bill, and the plan was to slip a casino-reopening provision into that unrelated measure. "Just met with Ney!!! We're f'ing gold!!!! He's going to do Tigua," Mr. Abramoff e-mailed Mr. Scanlon on March 20. Six days later Mr. Abramoff told the tribe it needed to come up with contributions for the congressman.
The tribe anted up, becoming by far Mr. Ney's biggest contributor that election cycle. It gave $3,000 to his campaign committee ($2,000 more than permitted at the time), $5,000 to his leadership political action committee and $25,000 to the PAC's "soft money" arm, which was set up just in time to take the Tiguas' check."
But, as all Mooseketeers are aware, a hard working Congressman sometimes must unwind and relax - so funds were made available for Mr. Ney's comfort,
"In addition, the week that Mr. Ney's involvement in the Tigua matter was revealed at a Senate hearing, his campaign belatedly amended its campaign finance reports for 2002 and 2003 to reflect in-kind contributions for events at MCI Center, where Mr. Abramoff had a box."
Of course, the very righteous Mr. Ney, a leader of the Party of the Judeo-Christian ethic would never be susceptible to do favors for money, would he?
"But what explains Mr. Ney's devotion to the Tigua cause? The tribe isn't from Mr. Ney's state, let alone his district. The committees he sits on have nothing to do with the subject. (In fact, he chairs the committee that oversees campaign finance laws.) Early on, Messrs. Abramoff and Scanlon told the Tigua that they would have to pay $300,000 in campaign contributions to underwrite what the lobbyists called "Operation Open Doors." At least in Mr. Ney's case the operation may have been a success."
Oh, the Moose is so disillusioned by the apparent misbehavior of the righteous ones. Mammon, greed and even prostitution prevailing in the Capital ruled by those who are devoted to the Lord? What's next? Conservative talk show hosts hooked on drugs? Rampant divorce threatening the sanctity of marriage? This from today's Washington Times,
"A Christian Coalition of America ex-official's lawsuit for $123,500 in unpaid compensation has put nepotism of the coalition's president and the acrimonious divorce of her daughter center stage in Virginia courts."
Pastor Moose implores his parishioners to reject the solicitations of Satan!
Now, returning to the gambling matter - one of the Moose's favorite publications, the Texas Observer, has published a marvelous piece on this toxic tale by the author of a recent biography on the Bug Man, Lou Dubose. This piece titled K Street Croupiers How Two of Tom DeLay's Players Beat the House at the Grand Coushatta Casino is mandatory reading for all who aspire to inquire on the devilish doings here in sin city. Consider the opening passage to wet your appetite,
" On May 9, 2001, Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff did President George W. Bush a small favor by directing a modest sum of money to Grover Norquist. Norquist was bringing a group of Republican state legislators to the White House to sell them Bush’s proposed tax cuts. He decided to use the event to make a little money for his organization, Americans for Tax Reform. So he had Abramoff ask two of his American Indian clients for $25,000 each for the privilege of meeting the president. This money ATR raised at the White House three years ago is a small part of a big scandal involving Abramoff, his partner Mike Scanlon, six Indian tribes, $66 million in questionable lobbying fees, and millions of dollars in political contributions.
"Also entangled in the scandal is House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, whose Washington “network” was offered to Indian casino clients by Abramoff and Scanlon, if the tribes would hire them. DeLay is the only member of Congress associated with Abramoff and Scanlon’s extensive casino tribe dealings. After DeLay used his leadership position to kill a bill that would have taxed Indian casinos, Abramoff and Scanlon used their access to “the Leader” to attract Indian casino clients. (Neither of the two men seemed to have any interest in Indian tribes that did not have casinos.) The Louisiana tribe that paid almost half of the lobbying fees collected by Abramoff and Scanlon contributed more to DeLay’s political action committee than they did to any other member of Congress in 2002. Because of his close ties with the two men, DeLay is the only member of Congress whose conduct has been questioned in an ongoing Senate committee investigation of the lobbying scandal. Other federal and state agencies are investigating the two men as well."
To understand this story is to comprehend how Washington works in the DeLay Era (D.E.). The Moose cautions, however, that the viewer should be warned that the information contained on the link above is quite graphic for the ethically squeamish.
But, Pastor Moose reminds his devoted flock - we must comprehend the maniacal ways of Satan in order to proceed on the righteous path.
Will somebody please say ... Amen!
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Thursday, December 02, 2004
The Moose avers that the New Republic's Peter Beinart has written the Vital Center for our generation.
Beinart's piece is bound to stimulate a heated and much needed debate in the Democratic Party. The Moose applauds Beinart for his courage, clarity and dedication to principle. Bully!
Over fifty years ago, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote the Vital Center which was the definitive work of anti-communist progressivism. Peter Beinart, the editor of the New Republic, has performed this task for this generation of liberals. In a required reading for all Mooseketeers, Beinart has penned "A Fighting Faith, An Argument for a New Liberalism. "
The Moose has longed believed that the left, with a few notable exceptions, has unwisely ceded the cause of the war against terror to the conservatives. On both moral and political grounds, this is wrong. Morally, there is no greater threat to progressive values than radical jihadists. Politically, progressives will never be trusted with power as long as they are perceived as doves. As Beinart points out,
"On health care, gay rights, and the environment, there is a positive vision, articulated with passion. But there is little liberal passion to win the struggle against Al Qaeda--even though totalitarian Islam has killed thousands of Americans and aims to kill millions; and even though, if it gained power, its efforts to force every aspect of life into conformity with a barbaric interpretation of Islam would reign terror upon women, religious minorities, and anyone in the Muslim world with a thirst for modernity or freedom."
This following passage will undoubtedly infuriate many lefties,
"The challenge for Democrats today is not to find a different kind of presidential candidate. It is to transform the party at its grassroots so that a different kind of presidential candidate can emerge. That means abandoning the unity-at-all-costs ethos that governed American liberalism in 2004. And it requires a sustained battle to wrest the Democratic Party from the heirs of Henry Wallace. In the party today, two such heirs loom largest: Michael Moore and MoveOn."
It is sadly true that some of those who Beinart labels the "softs" on the left are more anti-Bush than they are anti-terror. Indeed, one gets the impression that some in their ranks view W. as the chief terrorist in the world - and they aren't shy about this belief. In contrast, anti-terror progressives oppose many of the Bush policies because they are not tough enough against our enemies. Beinart puts it well,
"Such a critique might seem unavailable to liberals today, given that Bush, having abandoned the Republican Party's traditional concern with balanced budgets, seems content to cut taxes and strengthen the U.S. military at the same time. But subtly, the Republican Party's dual imperatives have already begun to collide--with a stronger defense consistently losing out. Bush has not increased the size of the U.S. military since September 11--despite repeated calls from hawks in his own party--in part because, given his massive tax cuts, he simply cannot afford to. An anti-totalitarian liberalism would attack those tax cuts not merely as unfair and fiscally reckless, but, above all, as long-term threats to America's ability to wage war against fanatical Islam. Today, however, there is no liberal constituency for such an argument in a Democratic Party in which only 2 percent of delegates called "terrorism" their paramount issue and another 1 percent mentioned "defense."
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The Moose concludes that Shinseki is a prophet and Rumsefld is an incompetent.
The latest news out of the Pentagon is that troop levels are going up. From the Washington Post,
The Pentagon said yesterday that it will boost the number of U.S. troops in Iraq to about 150,000, the highest level since the U.S. occupation began 19 months ago.
While the DOD claims this troop increase is merely to prepare for the possible turmoil prior to the elections, there is another view,
The ferocity with which the war is being waged by both sides is escalating," said Jeffrey White, a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who is now at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. "It is not just that the number of incidents are increasing. The war looks to be changing in character."
It has been said that truth is the first casualty in war. And the hard truth is that we have never been told the truth about what is actually happening on the ground from the very beginning of the war. Prior to the war, General Shinseki argued that several hundred thousand troops would be necessary to secure Iraq. However, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz pointedly rejected Shinseki. When the war ended, Rumsfeld suggested that the initial turmoil was attributable to a few "dead enders." Then, when Senators McCain and Biden argued for more troops a few months into the occupation, Rumsfeld assured them that everything was under control. Believe me, Rummy argued, not your lying eyes.
Now, we are told, don't worry be happy - these recent troubles are a little bump in the road on the way to elections. And by the way, Iraqafication is proceeding along just swell, thank you very much. Of course, there are those "naysayers" who claim otherwise,
Retired Army Col. Ralph Hallenbeck, who worked in Iraq with the U.S. occupation authority last year, said he is worried that the move represents a setback for the basic U.S. strategy of placing a greater burden on Iraqi security forces to control the country and deal with the insurgency. "I fear that it signals a re-Americanization . . . of our strategy in Iraq," he said.
Well, at least we can take comfort in the fact that Rumsfeld is not Secretary of Education. In that Department they demand standards, accountability and results. Unlike the Department of Defense, at Education they are not satisfied by the soft bigotry of low expectations.
Leave no incompetent Secretary of Defense behind.
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Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Dr. Moose, Ph.D. in Street Psychology from Central Texas Normal College, counsels donkeys not to let President Bush drive them crazy.
The Moose was surfing the radio dial yesterday and came across a broadcast on Pacifica Radio. The report was on the developments in the Ukraine and the gist was that the opposition was perhaps the creation of a dark American plot. According to Anne Applebaum's column in the Post today, this conspiratorial view is not limited to the outer reaches of the American left -
Just in case anyone actually thought that all of those people waving flags on the streets of Kiev represent authentic Ukrainian sentiments, the London Guardian informed its readers otherwise last week. In an article titled "US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev," the newspaper described the events of the past 10 days as "an American creation, a sophisticated and brilliantly conceived exercise in western branding and mass marketing." In a separate article, the same paper described the whole episode as a "postmodern coup d'etat" and a "CIA-sponsored third world uprising of cold war days, adapted to post-Soviet conditions."
The Moose's response to all this is that he certainly hopes that the United States is assisting the pro-democracy forces in the Ukraine, or anywhere else for that matter. In fact, a range of Americans from the International Republican Institute and the National Democratic Institute to George Soros-funded organizations have been helping Eastern Europeans make the transition to democracy. And the Moose applauds the Bush Administration for supporting the rights of the opposition in the Ukraine.
The Moose shares much of the American left's critique of the Bush Administration, particularly on the domestic side. As Leon Wieseltier observed, "you cannot govern as Winston Churchill some of the time and as Grover Norquist most of the time." But the Moose fears, particularly in frustration with a second Bush term, some on the left will take leave of their senses and reflexively oppose Bush foreign policy, even when it is on the right side such as in the Ukraine or in the Sudan.
The Moose is an old-school progressive. He fondly remembers the day when AFL-CIO president George Meany championed labor rights and economic justice at home and promoted democracy abroad. The Moose strenuously objects to the Bush redistribution program for the rich because it denies the country critical resources in the war against terror and is unfair to those Americans who largely bear the burden of defending our nation.
But the Moose urges the donkey not go nuts in response to the depredations of the Bushies. The Moose wished Kerry would have won. He didn't. If he had, President Kerry undoubtedly would have been on the side of democracts in the Ukraine.
The Moose remembers the days in the late 90's when some on the right, including the House Bug Man DeLay, viciously attacked the Clinton Administration's intervention in Kosovo. Progressives can do better than approach foreign policy in a partisan, reflexive manner. Senator Biden sets a good example for a rational approach to foreign policy for an opposition party.
Indeed, sometimes politics should stop at the water's edge.
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The Moose offers a programming suggestion for CNN.
Everyone complains about the liberal media, but Fox did something about it. The Moose is referring to the fact that Fox News has experienced great success by positioning itself as an explicitly center-right news outlet. Roger Ailes is the Karl Rove of network news programming and he has deservedly achieved great success with his edgy and entertaining network. With the shrewdly ironic slogan "Fair and Balanced", Fox News is pounding the other cable networks in ratings.
CNN has been the primary victim of Fox's success. Although it is tacitly the favorite of liberals, CNN is a much more serious news organization in attempting to actually serve as a "Fair and Balanced" outlet. And, as mentioned previously, it is consistently being trounced by Fox.
The Moose is a mammal of the center. He is approaching the following advice, wearing his media analyst antlers. It occurs to the Moose that CNN has a potential audience in the 57 million or so Americans who voted for Kerry. The right would respond to this statement by arguing that these Americans already enjoy access to the "liberal" mainstream media. But the Moose counters that these outlets are hardly as explicitly liberal as Fox News is brazenly conservative.
While there are far fewer liberals than conservatives in America, the potential of a 57 million viewer market is nothing to sneeze at. Why haven't the wise guys at CNN figured this out? Keep the serious reportage - but eliminate the dull and dry. And dare to be explicitly left of center!
This is the type of advice that CNN could pay millions for and the Moose just dispensed it at no cost. Of course, the old adage tell us you get what you pay for.
The Moose opines, you decide.
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